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10 trout caught on gold head nymph, 3 fish over a 1lb, one near 2lb, I have a good photo if you want to see it. Only saw 5 fish rise all day. No fish taken.

4 Chub all under 2lbs, 16 Barbel to 9lb 14ozs (New P.B.). All on Halibut Pellets. The top half of this stretch is well overgrown and difficult to spot the swims, but the river seems full of Barbel of a good average size. All Barbel caught in a busy 5 hour period from dawn to about 10.00 am and then bites dried up (perhaps I had caught them all!). What a great start to the season. Many thanks to W&UF for giving us the opportunity to fish stretches like this.

Thanks for recommending Dan-y-Warren - absolutely perfect for a man in a suit with waders in his boot!(which I was - following a meeting in Usk at lunchtime)

I spent 2 pleasurable hours there and took six trout - the biggest of which was about 1.25 lbs. The cool wind kept the fish down, and the successful flies were spiders (snipe and purple) and czech nymphs.

First stop R. Hindwell. Always had good catches here but today was different. River looked in good fettle at first glance, a bit low maybe anyway I thought I would give it a try.

Fished from about 8 am till about 10 and only managed 1 small brownie taked on a GH PTN. The river was lower and much clearer than I thought. Nothing showing apart from the bottom! I gave up and moved down to The Noke. Again I've had mixed days here. The Arrow was low but very fishable, but you need jungle warfare training to get to some of the pools! Total for the day 9 or 10 (I lost count!) grayling from 8 to 14 inches. 6 trout, best over the pound mark. Lost a large trout below bridge and a big grayling further down the river, probably because using barbless hooks.
Fish taken on either GH Ptn or Adams. Not many fish showing and no noticable fly hatch, probably because of the cooler weather. All fish returned. Tricky fishing due to the rather blustery conditions.

Six brown trout to 10 inches all returned, 5 on GRHE, 1 on Bibio, beautiful beat.

Thanks for a really good day we caught approx 25 brown trout up to 1lb 8oz and 10 grayling all around the 1lb mark.

Weather conditions good with some cloud cover although high winds made fishing problematic at times. Water levels a little low although didn't adversely affect the fishing. Fishing was slow although many trout and salmon parr caught, and 5 or 6 browns at 3 to 5oz and one caught late afternoon of 1.8lbs at the top of the beat just above the bridge. All fish returned and caught on variously Sawyer's ptn and small parachutes.

Much wildlife in evidence such as: a pair of otters, mink, spotted flycatchers, red kites, pied wagtails, dippers and kingfishers.

Generally a delightful place to fish and the camping at the nearby farm was excellent. Foundation's service was excellent and look forward to booking with them again sometime this season.

4 x trout small 2 x Grayling 12" & 8". Overcast day breezy with regular light showers, very little rising ( only when rain stopped), mixed flies, klinkers & blue uprights & grhe.

6 Trout to Pete on dry flies none for Cliff but he had a few takes and lost some as well. Quiet for most of the day but a great session with fish rising everywhere from about 6.30 pm to 7.15.

13th June: Arrow at Titley: 4 x trout 10-12" dry flies. Not that many rising but an interesting day on a pretty and peaceful stretch of water.

15th June: Brecon Town Water, 10 x trout to 13" on spiders. The Usk seems to have been refreshed by the recent showers. The previous day on the Usk Town Water was very similar. By the way, this year at Usk we are all carefully avoiding the places where the shad are to be found, which does restrict the trout fishing rather on this water.