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A bright, warm day. The promised rain failed to arrive, instead occasional showers. Nevertheless, we had a most enjoyable, if hard, day on this wonderful beat. Fishing for almost 8 hours one of us took 9 wild brown trout, including 2 beautiful fish at 12+ inches, the other took 5. The most productive tactic was New Zealand dropper style, with a size 20 nymph under a size 14 klinkhammer.

Had a great days fishing in a beautiful location. it was warm and sunny, although the wind did pick up in the afternoon. There was not much fly activity during the day so I fished a PTN under a Klinkhammer and took about 15 fish ranging from 6" to "10, 2 of 12" and one of 14". All fish were in immaculate condition and put up good scraps. Despite really good hatches in the evening there was suprisingly little surface activity, but managed to take a few on a sedge. Also saw a couple of salmon leap out of the water during the afternoon. The upper section of the best is hard to fish and access but saw some good fish rising, just couldnt get top them.

Nil caught.

An enjoyable days fishing inspite of the weather, it rained nearly all day or at least it felt like it. Actually had about 12 fish to hand the largest being about 1lb. Lost almost as many fish as came to hand dropping off barbless hooks, the largest of which was approx 2lb just as I was about to net it. Most of the fish came to a tunsten backed shrimp with others to a gold head pheasant tail nymph. Would fish Penpont again. All fish returned.
Stayed at the Old Store House near Brecon.

Guest had 1 x 10 inch brown released then catch and release at distance on a few others. Missed one monster - saw its flank and would put it well over 3lbs. Know where it lives now. River coloured and things got tough so left for another venue and picked up 6 small trout/parr on dries and a lot more catch and release at distance.

Fished from 09.00 - 18.00. The river level was high but falling and coloured.
20 fish caught mainly on nymphs with a size 16 quill nymph fished duo style catching most. Fish landed up to 1lb. Two big fish lost, both unseen (one, to my shame, was a snap).
A very good day on a lovely bit of water.

This would be our first visit to Penpont. The advice given, by staff at the Wye & Usk Foundation, was to fish with small'ish flies. Such advice proved spot-on, we fished a variety of Nymphs - mostly size 16 and 18, and caught a total of six hard-scrapping brown trout.
Best pattern was the humble 'Hares ear beadhead', although a nice 16 inch brownie fell to a self-fashioned 'Plongo-grub' - a simple twisted white wool abdomen / seal hair thorax pattern.

Most of the fish were taken downstream of the main bridge - three in particular being taken from a beautiful 40 metre glide. Plenty of white water throughout the beat so, unless you know the beat reasonably well, it really does pay dividends to study each section carefully rather than just walk on by. I spotted a few nice trout lurking in difficult-to-reach slacks; I also managed to spook each of these fish with my less-than-accurate casting technique, otherwise I may have caught a few more.

4 WBT to 30cm caught on PTN, para adams and GRHE. Camped by the bridge on the previous night and caught the first fish there shortly after stepping into my waders.

4 trout caught (largest about 30cm) and 3 lost. 2 on PTN Variant fished duo, 1 on parachute adams and 1 on x-caddis. Fishing blind with a dry in likeley spots produced plenty of rises. Thanks to Simon at WUF for suggesting I fish despite the river recovering from the wash-off of the previous day.

One fish of 8 oz caught on a size 18 olive Klinkhammer, no fish were taken. Wind gusts killed off a sporadic rise in the evening.