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Caught - Nil. Beautiful day. Big hatch of flies. More difficult to wade than anticipated.

5 gorgeous brown trout, all returned:

2.5 lb
2.25 lb
1.5 lb
12oz
8oz

Cool and breezy. Not a massive amount of activity, but a few fish were rising well to small duns, yet ignoring large mayflies which were reasonably abundant. All caught on v. small parachute adams and small nymphs.

Beautiful big fish, very hard fighting. Shame this beat isn't catch and release only.

We caught 3 salmon par and 1 brown trout all about 4-8oz on a small weighted pheasant tail nymph/ gold headed hares ear nymph. The water was clear but still running high.

Lovely stretch of water with good pools. One rod blanked but had an enjoyable day. I caught two brown trout, both returned unharmed (barbless hooks), about 8 ozs and 12ozs. As usual with Usk trout they hit the fly hard. It took several casts through the pools with little knocks before they took, so I knew they were there. Successful fly was a wet traditional Greenwells glory fished on a dropper about two feet above an olive nymph goldhead. No fish were seen rising all day, which was surprising.

Good helpful and friendly tel. booking service. Thanks for a lovely day out.

Did not see any salmon - but caught 15 trout in 2hrs (to about 1.5lb). I think the trout boys are doing it wrong and shouldn't bother with size 16 Adam's and stick to size 8 purple ally's or sunrays.

Lovely water to spend an hour or two on.

2 x 8oz brown trout - one on parachute adams dry fly, one on nymph

Lost a nice trout which was estimated at +1lb, but otherwise no takes by either rod.

A lovely beat - and fond memories of the falls here on the river walk 2 years ago. By memory there was as much - or even more - water coming over the falls yesterday as in that November but no salmon seen yesterday.

River in superb condition and a cracking hatch - brook duns, small and medium olives - but the fish didnt seem to respond although due to professional business we were not on the water until 4 pm.

J.S. had 2 trout - 5" and 12" on a heptagenid nymph fished new zealand style below a klinkhamer. J.B. had 1 5" on a parachute ginger quill. And yours truly - blanked for the second time this season having badly scared one tiddler in the Crai.

After much debate and with regret we had to forego the swedish massage mentioned in the booking info!

11th May - Dan Y Parc - very windy conditions making for difficult casting. Caught four trout - largest approx 1 lb.

13th May - Glanusk Estate - drizzly/overcast conditions - caught six. Largest 1.1/2 lb

15th May - Bridge Meadow - Heavy rain showers - no catch

Many thanks.

14 trout in total. Fingerling to 13" in size.
Also had 2 grayling, 1 fingerling and 1 12".

Small hatches here and there and tried with the dry but came up empty. Put the hare's ears beads back on and right back into them.