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Thank you for arranging the fishing at Fenni Fach on Saturday. A glorious spring day with a respectable hatch of olives through the middle of the day. Three lovely trout caught and safely released - a 16 incher and two 14s.

3 Trout

Fished a duo. Klinkhammer and nymph, fish took the nymph. Nice hatch around lunchtime. Should have caught more but missed plenty of strikes. Still cold, rainy and windy. Rivers started to colour and rise in the afternoon, called it a day at 4pm.

1 Trout

Weather was worst than I had hoped for, overcast with squally showers and also pretty cold. The river was low and pretty clear.
When I started at 1130 there was no sign of fly life or rising fish. As the day progressed a light trickle of LDO came off with the odd March Brown. A couple of fish began rising.
Caught a couple of rising fish on Orange and Partridge fished downstream and allowed to dead drift over the fish. Apart from that pretty hard work

2 Trout

No fish caught. Very sunny and we only saw one fish (after we had spooked it!).

Lovely day on the water. Very cold, but good to be out. Water temperature was 3 degrees all day. Air temp 4 degrees with freezing wind chill. The old kelly kettle and the sight of dippers kept spirits high. Reasonable LDO hatch at 1pm and some fish randomly rising at 3pm for about 5-10 minutes. In my excitement I managed to put all rising fish down, but it was still great be out on the water after a cold winter. Dippers, grey wagtails and much more all in attendance.... Many thanks WUF for another lovely day. No trout caught this time, but I will be back when water temperature is more conducive to feeding trout.

It is two years since I fished this beat and the access to the river has been greatly improved with a number of styles in place. I should have taken a wading stick (probably my age). It was cold but there was a hatch that got going around 11.30am which were small brown olives. I managed my only trout with a copper head brown nymph size 16 fished upstream with an indicator - size was around 1lb 1/4. As the day went on we found a still piece of water just down from the vicarage pool where fish were rising but our flies did not interest them. We met the owner who was very helpful as I had not fished the top end of the beat before. We packed in at 4.00pm as we were frozen.

1 Trout

No fish but great beat and great service from Wye and Usk Foundation. will be back later in the season. Thanks.

A soul refreshing afternoon fishing a full upper Usk framed by autumn splendour. I don't think there is a more beautiful beat on the Usk.
Pulled a fish in the tail of Long Gutter before ML had a feisty 8lb coloured fish from same place, probably the same fish. Saw a couple running and as the light was fading I hooked an acrobatic fresh grilse in Popular Pool that inexplicably fell off after two cartwheeling jumps.
In common with the last two times I have fished this beat I left 2 rod rings lighter after clattering Spey casts through the over hanging branches. A bit of clearance would help enormously. Several of the prime spots; Long Gutter, tail of Windings, Vicarage and Popular pools, were almost unfishble.

River at a good height and clarity but no hook ups. Fished beat from top to bottom and saw possibly one fish head and tail. Forgotten how `good` the wading was!

Fished at Fenni Fach on 27th having been washed off a couple of days earlier. One trout @ 1lb on nymph. Fishing upstream difficult because of current and slippery rocks...wading stick definitely needed as my swimming session testified !!