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Evolved into a beautiful bright day when cloud cover burnt off enabling good viewing of kites and eurofighters. One decent bottle green salmo nigripinnis; it's not the black pectorals or vomerine teeth thats remarkable John Beer but the irridescent bottle green colour that has faded in the bottled specimens in the nhm. All largely caught on wet flies. As ever the larger fish turning over in the middle of the llyn were well out of range; perhaps the boat would be handy next time. This place is always worth a visit.

19 Trout

The sun was shining so we headed west for an evening's fun hoping for a mayfly hatch. And what a hatch! I have not seen so many spinners dancing since the 70s. The trout must have been sated on them as they didnt seem too bothered although Usk trout are usually more circumspect than their tarty Wye cousins. Those fish that were fooled had been practicing too - of 12 fish hooked 10 came off, leaving us with two lovely fat 13 inch fish, both returned. Bigger ones were lost and much bigger ones were just far too wise to be hooked. As dusk fell - we fished till 10 - the bats seemed to appreciate the ephemeropteran extravaganza rather more than the fish. No silver tourists sighted although we did give the salmon rod a trundle.

2 Trout

Arrived a little late to take full advantage of a prolific morning hatch. Afternoon became very bright and sunny and the fishing difficult. A lovely scenic beat though. No fish caught.

Very cold day, overcast, felt more like March. No surface activity. Caught nice 12 inch Grayling, another about 10 inch and three trout around 8-10 inches all on a beaded hares ear nymph. All caught in the fast water above the bottom planks. Fished the duo back up to the top of the beat with no success.

3 Trout, 2 Grayling

A warm overcast morning produced a steady hatch of olives, sedge, sulphur duns and the odd mayfly. The fish seemed to be targeting the sulphur duns so a Tups dry did the trick, two 10" fish came to net and a lot of other takes were missed.

2 Trout

Fabulous beat with plenty of 2-4lb trout clearly seen. Caught 1 x 1lb and 1 x 9oz trout both returned. Both caught on foam body daddy. 20lb salmon seen jumping out of the pool half way along the beat. significant hatches including mayfly. Great day and the sun even came out at 3pm!

2 Trout

Cool and cloudy until about 3pm when the sun finally came out. Olives hatching throughout the session but mainly mid-afternoon and hardly any mayflies seen. About 5 trout seen rising one of which I caught on cdc dry fly (about 12 inches). Another one of about 10 inches was caught on a Copper John nymph by the weir.

2 Trout

4 trout taken. 10 perch caught and returned.

4 Trout, 10 Other

1 Trout

A lot of perch on the worm. Better than no fish at all. 4 Trout on the fly all rainbows, small fish better than no fish. Lovely clear warm morning. Yet again I spent 20 mins plus picking up rubbish left by night anglers.

4 Trout, 8 Other