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Lovely day but I failed to catch a thing!

5 Barbel, 2 Chub

3 Trout, 1 Other

Was a real gamble heading down to this miniature haven in this heat . . . . Strewth bright sun , not a wisp of a breeze , must be mad !!!!!!

Bowled up at one , and fished till half three , initially tackled up with an eighteen Adams and having now got a really good knowledge on the WUF beat , and a private stretch , I targeted these locations I knew were successful before . . . .

First little fish was from the top beat , nice little fish , took the parachute Adams with confidence , after I watched the water for a while , a rise was very very close in to the marginal vegetation , and there's plenty of that here !!!!!!! Quickly admired , little fish of perhaps six inches , and away , back into his pool . . . .

Not much at the usual haunts on the Pinsley , but wow the bank side vegetation has gone nuts !!!! And it's only June . . . My next fish , again took the Adams , on a private stretch , close under some overhanging Alder . . . . The rises from him were fairly aggressive ,probably terrestrial insects from the trees, but he was downstream of me . I cast short of him , leaving a bit of a snake in the two weight line , watching as it got close to where he had been risisng , and wallop !!!!! Nice fish on , lovely markings , possibly ten inches , again quickly admired then back in . Was always a bit of pot luck fishing dries in this weather , but in those shadowy corners , there were two fish risisng , and two too the net which was great , fun sport , and a great few days on the Wild Stream beats , shall give some of them a bash next week , work does get in the way hey !!!!!!

2 Trout

Incredible morning on the river today. Arrived at 08:00 and could see no rising fish so started by French nymphing and caught 6 trout, all around 6" so decided to try fishing the Duo and took a few fish on the dropper before the fish started favouring the dry fly so i switched to dry fly only (Size 16 Oppo) and the action really took off. Caught a couple of nice trout but they were mainly no bigger then 8", the grayling however were all sizeable fish, one around 14", which put up a strong fight. For every fish i hooked i missed at least 2 (too eager to strike). Unfortunately whilst pulling in a fish I waded into a large bolder and took a dunk (and lost the fish!) so had to call it a day at 13:00. Exceptionally pretty setting with no road noise or none fishers using the river.

15 Trout, 12 Grayling

Very warm day and flows were low. Caught chub on dry fly and trout on nymphs. Fantastic day and lovely beat.

2 Trout, 1 Chub

15 Barbel

Difficult day......low water, hot and bright, public present playing in river..........waiting for a rise which never materialised.....nymphs did the trick in the end........difficult day....but a beautiful river.

4 Trout

After fishing the Usk yesterday I knew that really it wasn't worth it until late in the evening so I only started fishing at about eight o'clock. Just about then there was quite a good mixed hatch with some yellow mays coming off amonst others. Still tricky fishing and spooky fish, very easy to put a riser down with a lack of stealth of a bad cast. In the end I chose to go slow and target rising fish missing a few and landing about half a dozen before the light was gone and the hatches pretty much over. A lovely section with a number of good riffles perfect for dry fly work at this water level which is very low at present.
Again thanks for the opportunity to fish these amazing beats and lovely rivers..

6 Trout