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Sorry, nothing to report.

Water conditions appeared good but no salmon caught or touched. Maybe I can blame the bright sunshine? A few fish seen moving but no great number.
We stayed two nights at Gromain Cottage B+B which was fine and convenient.

Water level having dropped overnight I fished Legg Meadow. No fish until late afternoon when 3 barbel, 1 chub and 1 eel were taken.

1 Brown Trout, 12" put back, not many fish seen.

2 salmon caught, first took a yellow Flamethrower, size 9 at 9am at the upper part of Abernant steam. Fish was about 9lbs. Second fish was caught at Lady Alexanders Catch at 1pm and took a orange Flamethrower, size 9 and weighed about 14lbs. The best 25 quid I have ever spent!!!

Had another good day fishing today. Well, a brilliant day in fact. Fished Gromain all day from 9.30am, had couple of knocks through the afternoon then returned to the Willow Pool to have my last half hour fishing at 3.30pm. After about 10 casts I caught a hen salmon of 15.5lbs, my biggest ever salmon caught on a size 10 Black Salar Piglet fly which took me around 15 to 20 mins to land. This fish was fresh been in the river couple of weeks maybe. Absolutely mint condtion lovely fish and gave a brilliant fight. The fish recovered very quickly and gave a good strong swim back to the river.

12 x trout 6-15 inches. I can't complain about the weather, which was mainly warm and dull, but it was a slow day as far as rising trout were concerned - very little activity. I therefore fished a team of spiders through the fast water at the heads of pools to get these.

A warm day with a downstream cross breeze. A few olives duns in the air and spinners too but very little in the way of fish rising. A challenging day but we managed to winkle out 8 browns to 1.25 lbs, 6 on gold head nymphs and 2 on dries. Unfortunately another 2 fishermen turned up at Midday having booked via the landowner. We have had increasing challenges of this nature on recent visits, coming across people who 'have the owners permission to fish whenever I like', people spinning, and folk who just think they can fish without a permit. In my view this stretch can not usually support 4 anglers and is a challenging but sometimes rewarding beat which requires subtlety and delicacy of approach to get the best out of it.
Whilst it states on the website that the landowner can allocate 2 rods this is not made clear in the Passport Booklet. It is on other beats which have the same issue.
The bottom field on one side is a caravan/campsite and now it looks like the other side is being used as a campsite as well with barrels put down for log fires. In amongst the debris there I found long lengths of monofilament - not flyfishing leader. Also a digger has been used in the river bed at one point leaving a big hole in the gravel and thoroughly wrecking what was one of the best dry fly stretches on the beat. It looks like gravel abstraction to me - is this allowed ? It seems at odds with the Wye Usk stream enhancement programme. In effect the bottom 400 yards at Penpont now has so much alternative activity it is close to a write off for fishing purposes. Today one of us encountered a stick throwing, dog swimming family in this stretch too.

WUF note - The gravel removal was nothing to do with WUF but we have reported the incident.

A nice bit of water & several nice fish caught between both rods. One small complaint though - this is a four rod beat and on top of our two rods we saw another three anglers out spinning for salmon on the same beat as well?

WUF note - It is very important you phone this information in on the day so we can act on it immediately.

Over priced and the lower part of the beat is not good wading, nil fish seen, nil fish caught.