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Spring is here at last! River full and coloured to start but fined down during the day. Experienced one of those March brown hatches to die for. Thousands hatching all in synch (what triggers it?), fish hardly know what's happening and in five minutes it's all over! Nine brown trout to 16" mostly on nymph. All safely returned. Great day.

9 Trout

Unfortunately the river was too brown and high to fish after the heavy rain the day before so the rods never made it out of the car!

All caught on spiders fished wet. River steadily rising following overnight rain and heavy rain in the morning of fishing becoming coloured by mid afternoon. No fish taken.
NB booking made on my behalf by Oliver Burch who acted as a guide on the day.

3 Trout

Only 2 but big fish. 2½lb and 3lb.

2 Trout

Fished for two hours using gold bead nymph. No fish seen and no takes. A little disappointing although weather cold.

Tree felling made vehicle access impossible. Likely to be so for about the next two weeks.
Fished fly & spinner. River high, good colour. Fishable.

Worm

1 Trout

1st fish 2lb, on a black shuttlecock, 2nd fish on a green gold head nymph.

2 Trout

Rained all day. Some movement first 2 hours. 2 nice fish taken, 12/14ins. Harry thom/use nailer. By lunch time water rose coloured up.no further movement

3 Trout

15 x trout 10-15 inches, Deer Hair Emerger, Dark Moorgame, Waterhen Bloa, Tungsten Hare's Ear. A session from 10 o'clock to around 4 o'clock on just the one pool of the middle Usk. I was determined in my mind to wait here for a hatch - grannom, dark olives, March brown, all or any would have been acceptable. However, the day was spoiled by an increasing cold upstream wind which eventually became a gale with waves marching up against the current, and a lack of sunlight as time went on. To keep myself amused while waiting for some kind of action on the surface I went through the pool several times with a team of spiders with a nymph on the point and eventually built up to 8 trout. It was a long wait though until nearly 2 o'clock when a few March browns began to float down and trout began to show. I switched to the dry fly rod with a Deer Hair Emerger and eventually got 7 more, although often I couldn't see the fly amongst the waves. It really seemed very cold indeed. Everything quiet again by 4 o'clock.

15 Trout