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1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Didn’t arrive until tea time and then got side tracked fiddling around with different lines on a new rod purchased for Argentina and Chile in the new year. Must have looked very silly casting a 15ft 11wt in the current conditions but so be it.
There were a number of rising fish when I actually started fishing at 6ish at the bottom of the Spring Pool. Klink and Dink down to below the bridge, Klink Greenwell, Adam’s ,and PTN variants all taking fish, then single dry fly back up, finishing almost in darkness at 9.45. There were a lot of flies on the water this evening. 4 or maybe 5 species( albeit just based on size), of sedge, a good number of upswings, and a fall of spinners which were still over the water at around 9.00 o’clock.Small trout seemed to be mopping up the spinners, and a small yellow spent spinner pattern accounted for some of them. The best fish, a lovely 14-15” specimen clobbered a #12 Elk hair caddis in the last couple of minutes of light to round off a very nice evening in sultry ,still conditions. Fortunately, I had just changed up to a heavier tippet as well as I would have almost certainly been snapped off otherwise.
There was one other surprise this evening. I expected a slimy, slippery wade down Heirag and Heron’s, but was taken by how clean the bedrock and the large boulders were given the long period of low water. Perhaps Welsh Water have started behaving themselves and stopped releasing effluent into the river in low water conditions, unlike some of the disgraceful incidents that have been well publicised on the Usk in recent years. Or the very low rainfall of late has resulted in less nutrient leach from adjacent farmland. Either way, that, along with the number of insect species seen , was a bit of a pick-me-up especially after another dire star to the salmon season.

14 Trout, 1 Grayling

Tough conditions. Wye as low as we've ever known, bright sunshine. And due to having to decamp from the Dee in the morning and set up camp here, we didn't wet a line until 1.09 pm. Still winkled out a few fish. One 3lb chub, 25 odd trout (a couple over 1lb) and one 1lb plus grayling. 90% came to an olive but a few to the nymph when we couldn't find anything rising. All returned safely.

25 Trout, 1 Grayling, 1 Chub

Other was shad, difficult fishing today. Abundant fly life all day.

5 Trout, 2 Grayling, 6 Other

6 Trout

No lift from the expected thunderstorms so didn’t fish today.

6 Trout, 2 Grayling

Nymph and dry. Bonus twait shad. Tried evening but very little rising although fly life was prolific after 19:30. Only caught three.

7 Trout, 1 Grayling, 1 Other

Lovely day with plenty of fish caught and some long range releases. All fish caught on nymphs

10 Trout, 3 Grayling

14 Trout, 2 Grayling