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Fished the afternoon with other rods already using the beat, still the water looked OK. The top had only been fished with the fly so I went down the Spring pool with the spinner to try something different, did not touch anything. Couple of shad and trout from further down the beat was all I could manage.

2 Trout, 2 Other

River dropped back and no fish caught or seen, lovely day though, saw an otter opposite The Spring Pool.

3 Trout

Beautiful day on the Wye. Bright and warm with plenty of sunburn to go round. Water was clear, about 1'6" on the guage and falling all day. We thrashed to water for a few hours, but the bright sun kept most of the fish deep. We only managed three between us, all were under 10". A few small fish rising to various olives, pale watery, adams etc but most didn't stick.
A couple of us briefly tried fishing nymphs in the deeper channels and had a couple of pulls, but nothing more.
Lovely setting and a good day out. The highlight was probably wading across the section just below the car park and almost stepping on a pair of 15" -ish brownies holding in the thigh-deep fast water, I'm not sure which of us was more shocked.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

River a few inches lower than yesterday and less coloured, fancied my chances but no fish, but was lucky enough to find SMS as he was playing a strong fresh fish in the upper Heirag. Lucky really as I thought I had lost my wallet somewhere and he kindly lent me some petrol money to get home! It turns out it was on my Kitchen Table> Idiot.

Success! After what seems hundreds of man hours, I'm happy to say I'm off the mark. First Salmon on the fly. I thought it was about 12lb, but at 34 inches maybe slightly heavier. No lice and very slightly coloured, dropped the fly in the net and swam away strongly.
Just under 2 ft on the Gauge and coloured, taken in the Cottage Pool on a Large Double Cascade tied by the one and only Jean Williams of Sweet's Tackle Shop in Usk. Bless you Jean!
Still an awful lot to learn, but nice to get some reward for my efforts, hopefully the first of many.

1 Salmon

Flogged the water from 6am till about 4pm with no Salmon seen, hopefully the rain of the next few days will change that.
Got the dry fly rod out for the last hour and took 3 trout to half a pound on yellow Mayfly Duns.

3 Trout

Blank.

Conditions pretty much perfect, but no fish caught. Many thanks to Simon for his help, need all the help I can get!

Was hoping to find a bigger river but not to be. No fish seen.
But at present, it's all about learning and I did that, a lot more confident with a Salmon Rod after a long day. Walked both banks and fished Upper Llanstephen, so crawled to the car, my bad knee screaming at me!

4 Trout