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Just a trickle of March Browns coming off through the middle of the day. Four trout to 14" on nymph. All returned.

4 Trout

5 Trout

Tried a heavy headed nymph and a few different wet flies such as Mallard & Claret, Greenwells Glory. River quite low.
First time on this beat- absolutely lovely despite no fish!

One 14lb salmon from the vanstone on a flying c with another one lost. Wayne little caught the salmon. A few other fish seen moving.

1 Salmon

Two 12" trout, 1 on the dry and one on the nymph.

2 Trout

2 Trout

Only a couple of trout to hand and fair few grayling. all taking 2.5mm baetis nymph on point. not really sure of the trout potential in this part of the lugg as this beat to me screams grayling. the weather was cold wet and cloudy with very limited fly on the water, just the odd ldo. will give it another go end of june when grayling season proper is in full flow and see whether there is also a good head of trout. the lugg like the monnow do take a while to wake up so this may of been the case on this cold wet spring day

2 Trout, 9 Grayling

A quite warm spring day with lighter winds than of late. Plenty of fly life in the air including several different Olives and Sedge's. Occasional fish rising in the slow sunny pools where I caught 4 on an IOBO size 16. The rest came from the riffles to a Gold head nymph. Biggest of the day around 10 inches. Made it past the waterfall for the first time where there are a couple more nice pools.

11 Trout

Booked fishing on Goodrich court after reading it was classic fly fishing water, and I was not disappointed with the quality of the fishery. From entering the gate to the car park, it was a delight to see pheasant, partridge and wild hares scattering around. There was no gillie available on the day so we just covered as much water as possible in 11 hours, we did manage to cover all pools except the cottage pool, and we did see 5 salmon in deep water on Vanstone pool but could not tempt them to the fly. Overall an enjoyable trip with my father.

Very difficult conditions due to the very busy prior couple of days (Easter Weekend). Didn't experience as much as a bite. After discussions with the rangers I learned that no other fish had been caught all day from the western bank of the reservoir and only two or three from the eastern bank. Still, if it were easy they'd call it 'Catching' and not fishing. Plus the added bonus of not having to fuss about with the worst job in fishing, cleaning the fish, it was not completely unsuccessful. My 10 year old son had a good day out with me despite there being no fish, and that's what makes it all worthwhile. I must point out that the rangers were very helpful and most friendly.