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Water very skinny, clear and fast. Very few signs of life, no fish landed.

Slightly cooler overcast day so hoping for a reasonable day after all the bright sunshine. River extremely low , I’m hoping this was the reason for a non productive day and not my abilities!
Walked the length of the beat before setting up , not one fish seen, not one rise and no hatch, a thoroughly disappointing day!
Fished Penpont 4 times now and three of the four visits have been extremely hard work, I’ll give it a miss next time and try another beat!

Very hard beat very low water and very clear but lovely views and stuff

1 Trout

This is the first of two days' fishing on the Penpont beat, so what follows applies to both days. No fish, no rises, no takes - river was low and clear, wind was bitingly cold and from the East. I tried spiders and PTNs on 5 weight line and used the dry fly rod just to get some practice in. I imagine much finer tackle was needed, plus a much better angler than me to catch fish!

Summer levels,sunny day. A few small hatches of olives annd March browns although I saw nothing rise. Not a touch on spiders or upstream nymphs.

A day of glorious weather! Really did feel like spring although no-one told the fish. We are always keen to get our first session in and the weather forecast certainly encouraged us. A few olives hatching but not a single fish seen moving - the river is low and the sun was bright. By 5pm we were back at the bridge by the house so walked up from there and after a day of fruitlessly matching the hatch all day Jim tied on a ginger Jingler. First cast in to the fast water … wallop! A lovely 15” trout. Saved the blank!

1 Trout

River rather low and very quiet. No fly and only a couple of rises observed in five hours of fishing. Just one 8” trout caught.

1 Trout

Water very fishable but very cold (no higher than 6 degrees on thermometer all day)! Plenty of spider and nymph fishing with no success and no fish seen, about to leave when spotted a fish rising 100 yards above bridge regularly so put a size 16 quill olive over it and landed it first cast!

1 Trout

Good conditions. Fish healthy, classic Usk browns. Woolly Bugger, black.

3 Trout

Quelques gobages.
Pas de prise.
Très bel endroit.
La rivière avait un niveau parfait.