The River Taff and the River Ebbw are the two most prolific trout rivers I know and the Taff still gets a very good hatch of March Browns . Garry Evans does the Taff tickets which are cheap and the
Islwyn and District do tickets for the Ebbw.
I like to get a ticket for the Afon Llwyd early season from the
Cwmbran Angling Association, they used to stock rainbows which is very wrong of course but a hell of an easy way to start the season, now they follow a more enlightened path and it's a nice little river with a good head of trout. You can fish the Monnow on their ticket, not sure what that's like now, the weir's been altered I think.
The
Ogmore has a few fish early season too and good hatches - we're spoilt for choice in fact.