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Stream rising and coloured after overnight rain. 3 x trout 6-10 inches, size 16 Rusty Klinkhammer. I must have missed twice as many due to nervous / mistimed striking. I need to get used to fishing a small fly again.

3 Trout

Fished 10am-2pm. After initial rain shower, the sun quickly dried things off. Quite a muggy day actually. No fish see rising, so on with the duo and winkled 5 lovely spotted brownies out of runs that were accessible. LOTS of trees across the river recently fallen by the looks. No option but to climb out of the river and back in the other side....not an easy job! WUF: Any possibility of hauling these out? They are willows, so growing vertically and will get harder to shift therefore.

5 Trout

Not a good day, very little happening. This beat needs some serious work, barely half of it is fishable, I won’t be gong back in a hurry.

First time on this stretch, covered the whole length with nymphs, most fish taken on flies with orange in them. 20 fish to 1lb all returned, had as many on and off but that's to be expected especially with barbless hooks.

There are lots of large fallen trees for me these add to the features and took several fish from around them however the stretch is difficult to navigate for the less able. Overcast with sunny spell, low clear river. A thoroughly enjoyable day, didn't see another person all day and the wild brownies were great fun on my zero weight rod.

20 Trout

Fairly noisy because of the footpath on the opposite bank. Young adults and dogs splashing around in the river. Probably best to avoid this stretch at weekends during the day

Touch of colour to the water which was still not much higher than my last visit three weeks ago. Bankside and overhead growth more in play which made for an excellent stalking "wild" day. Warm conditions, mainly overcast with some sunny spells very light breeze at times. First two fish on nymphs from the pool at the very bottom of the beat ( cracking grayling and 6" wbt). All other fish were wbt on dry fly from 6 to 10" (see photo for a jaffa) mainly winkled out from under overhangs. Still had variety of mayfly all day and a Grey Wulff was the most successful. Soaked up all the usual wildlife, evidence of otters with quite a few crayfish remains on the gravel shores. Had lunch watching very busy fly catchers. Mid afternoon, heading up to the top of the beat, was surprised to be overtaken by the greater striped American paddleboarder! She apologised for disturbing me and splashed her way up through all the water I was about to cover. I refrained from casting a heavy hook in her general direction in an attempt to puncture the inflatable vessel. It would only have caused more commotion. An hour and half later we met again as she made her way back downstream to the bridge. Maddening at the time, but was soon forgotten.

WUF Note: The Lugg is a publicly navigable waterway downstream of Presteigne, whatever the height.

9 Trout, 1 Grayling

A wonderful day on a beautiful river. Sadly, the chub were rather more active than the trout were in the morning, but we did have some success in the afternoon on beat 3.

Still, the highlight of the day was seeing two different salmon leaps, the first time I’ve ever seen a river run salmon! What a delight. I’m glad there’s enough water for them given the recent conditions and hopefully I’ll see them again some day.

3 Trout, 8 Chub

Some nice rises. No fish caught.

11 lbs and 10 lbs this am Friday Also 13 lbs Thursday. Evening All on small usk grub Good sprinkling of fish held up in this lower river beat water low but perfect fly colour.

3 Salmon

Blanked. Plenty of great habitats but many stretches inaccessible. Absolutely poured down most of the evening. So not a great day but hope to return sometime.