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Just a quick note to thank you for pointing me in the right direction for yesterday's trip. Penpont was on good form - as you said. I took six good fish (many in the 'Penpont porker' class) in an afternoon. All fish fell to dry mayflies or mayfly nymphs during sporadic but exciting mayfly activity.

Please accept this as my catch return.

Many thanks!

21 May 2009
B30 Hergest Court
comments: Moved date after wash out. River high and a bit coloured. 4 brown trout largest 10in all on mayfly. Good beat. Couldn't find how to get to bottom of beat.
Excellent service.

20 May 2009
B40 Cefn-Rhosan Fawr
comments: 2 trout largest 10in on dry fly River very high.
Not much rising. Good beat.

16 May 2009
B31 Lyepole
comments: 13 Trout largest 12in. All on dry fly. Good beat.

13 May 2009
B37 Skenfrith
comments: 12 brown trout largest 14in. All on dry fly.
Plenty of fly life even though weather was bad. Great beat.

4 rods on 21st May.Sorry forgot to post our returns. 15 trout caught and returned---many more missed!! Most enjoyable day. Many thanks.

5 brown trout up to 1.5lbs. River rather high after the rain, made fishing hard. Very few fish rising. Still a very nice days fishing.

No fish caught. Lovely beat but very unpleasant weather and very coloured water.

Hooked 10, landed 5. Fish between 10" - 14". There was double the amount of water in the stream, what a difference compared to the last few weeks. Pheasant tail gold beads raised most of the fish.

14 May, Brecon Town: 20 trout to 15". As you can tell, the silly season is here and they have stocked the water (Abergavenny too, I think). However, a nice brace of wild trout (15" each) included from the Bridge Pool. Again, I am seeing otters in daylight on this water, a pair of young ones this time, frolicking in the willow branches.
16 May, Upper Crai: blank, except for salmon parr.

Just to let you know what a wonderful time I had fishing your roving voucher beat 15 - River Edw on Saturday morning, this is the first time I've fished this river and I was extremely impressed by the amount of life this river holds.

There were lots of trout around every corner obviously sustained by the prolific invertebrate life the river holds, (the amount of Dippers I saw bear testament to this) every stone I lifted was covered in nymphs.

About 12.45pm they decided it was time to hatch and there were masses of upwings coming off, lots of various Olives & Large Brook Duns but no true Mayflies yet.

27 trout in all (biggest 11") mostly between 5"-8" all returned as always.

You can read more with the addition of some pics on my Blog: http://www.micksflyfishingdiary.blogspot.com/

Can't wait to try the other beats out along this river... hence the purchase of another booklet of vouchers!!

A very enjoyable day on a beautiful beat. 18 fish caught, 12 brown trout to 12", six grayling to 16", grayling recovering well from spawning, all carefully returned. Difficult conditions with heavy rain showers and fierce gusts of downstream wind. Fish rising only between showers. A few mayflies hatching but being ignored, rises to olives and black gnats, many fish preferring a pheasant tail just sub-surface.

River low and clear. Weather warm a.m, cold p.m.

18 trout and 4 grayling caught on pheasant tail nymphs, mayflies hatching but none taken on surface.

All trout (bar two) returned. All grayling returned. Largest trout caught 13.5 inches, smallest 9 inches. One salmon seen.