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Nil fish seen or caught.

A typically superb day on this Monnow trib. 20+ WBT landed to 12.5" and three times as many missed or lost, including a fish of over 2lbs that was clearly visible and had my heart pounding for many minutes afterwards.

Para Adams and small tan klink were what worked - but anything similar would have done!

Water is clear and low but there is plenty of flow and every likely looking place had a fish or 10 in it.

Don't go expecting wide open overhead casting. Go armed with a 7'6" or smaller 3# rod overlined with a 4# line, a steeply tapered leader of 10' or so and an ability to side cast from a kneeling postition for much of the time and you will have more fun than you can imagine with waders on.

Meas y Beran is more open but very similar in nature and also stuffed with fish and the other two upper Honddu beats are looking great as well.

First time at Eyton. From mid-morning onwards, and much like the last two months, it was very windy indeed. Some mayfly emerged in the afternoon, but there was little evidence of any fish clonking the emergers. Fished various bits of water with usually successful mayfly emergers and, much as expected, raised nothing! A couple of yellow mays and the occasional emerging sedge and that was about it. Not surprisingly, given the general lack of fly and unabated wind, there were few rising fish. Two trout of 10-12" and four 8-9" grayling was all I could come up with and all to a small black F fly and hare's ear emerger. No joy on the nymph. Watched a clonking brownie nymphing under the bridge - guesstimated at well over two pounds. Will come back on a better day with a few inches more water to what appears to be a lovely beat.

Water slightly coloured but not overly. Overhead there was a fair amount of cloud cover but alas nil fish were rising. During the day a downstream breeze increased but not enough so as to effect the fishing.

Fished nymph's upstream all morning and managed just one 6 inch fish, returned immediately.

Continued with nymph's until 2pm then switched to K & D. No success with this method either so packed up around 1/2 3 and enjoyed a lovely ice cream from the dairy in Brecon.

A lovely stretch of river! A season rod was just landing a lovely plump 17" wbt in front of us when we arrived - but that was very nearly it!

3 fish rose all day - 2 caught, one long distance catch and release. 2 x 8" wbt final tally. Very cold again - will return to this super beat when weather is more predictable

Lost a fresh fish after 5 minutes play to a Green Highlander 12 Double, floating line, from platform at Rocks. River at good height and clearing. Spun the Chine Pool, dropped a sea trout and released 2 shad.

4 barbel and 6/7 chub. Largest barbel 7.5lbs, largest chub 3lbs. First time on this beat and I suspect we didn't quite get our location right. All in all a good days fishing in great surroundings.

12-14 Brown Trout all quite small but good sport. All in all a good day!!!

We had a wonderful day at Lypole Fishery. Plenty of trout to 1 lb (about 6 to 8 trout) for each of us. We tried to catch a few big grayling, but I only caught two small grayling on the nymph. Despite the nice weather there was no hatch so only few fish were rising. Most trout came to small nymphs.

Sunny day with some showers and wind, river clear. Not much fly life, so no significant rise at any time. However, having had no success with nymph or spider, tried small para Adams after lunch in likely spots. Landed 5 wbt to 10" and missed 4 more, so turned out a good day. Have to say the wooded area above the weir is very dense making it difficult to get any sort of cast away in some of the runs/pools. However, really enjoyed the day and the challenges!