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No fish caught. River in good condition. Few rising fish. Missed a few takes on dry and nymph. Tough day, but an interesting stretch a water.

Quiet in the morning on the middle section, but the lower end livened up after lunch. Very little in the way of fish rising, but the one I did see took a parachute Adams first time. The rest were taken on small nymphs, they seemed to have a preference for size 14 green tungsten bead with green dubbing. One very pretty fish caught of around 1.5lb. Beautiful markings. Lower end of the beat is lovely, especially in the sunshine!

10 Trout

Another day on the River Usk and fishing a beat that we hadn't been to before. After a very relaxing night in the Wellington we headed down to the river. The heavens opened whilst we were setting up and we got fairly wet! However, it didn't last too long and the sun came out and warmed things up very quickly. A few fish were spotted rising just before the junction pool and a tiny 2 inch fish was taken on a small olive cdc. The colours on that fish were spectacular and it was safely released to put on a couple of pounds. I spooked a big fish the next cast putting the fly on the water too hard... We headed up into the junction pool where 3 very good fish were sipping away. Again they were being fussy but a size 20 cdc home tied fly did the job on a spectacularly marked fish of 20 inches! The fish on the far side came up to the same pattern but I missed it! After another half an hour of fly changing and the same fish rising I tempted him with a greenwell's glory - lovely fish of 16 inches. The day then got quiet and fish stopped rising and certainly were not taking any nymphs we put in front of them... Until we had a late afternoon rise where I picked up to small fish in 2 casts and a couple of others below the junction pool. Again lovely day fishing with a mate, couldn't ask for anything more! We will return!

7 Trout

Got 2 fish in the flats just below the junction pool, both on a parachute klinkhammer. Missed 2 others on the same fly, fished from 8 till 1.30
Agree with the gentleman who fished yesterday, the brown algae covering the rocks is extremely slippery, took a dip and almost a couple of others.

2 Trout

Lovely stretch of river and lovely day, warm and sunny for once. Very little insect and bird life seen on river. Would have expected to see Dippers, but none seen. A dead heron in the first field - a portent of the day as it turned out. Wading very treacherous owing to rocks being covered with much brown algal growth, which was extremely slippery underfoot - a wading staff was absolutely mandatory. One rising fish seen in the Junction pool in the early afternoon and two or three small rising fish in the Quarry pool in the evening, otherwise nothing. Fished from 1 PM to 8:30 PM with dry flies and then a team of nymphs covering all the pools and likely runs between the pools and only had one take from a very small trout in the Quarry pool. There was no true evening rise, although it might have happened after I left. The fish that I saw appeared to be feeding on gnats laying eggs on the surface of the water. Obviously, a bit of a disappointing day for me. I am very concerned about the amount of algal growth because this does not look normal for the river and I wonder whether the water quality has suffered from agricultural run off. I live locally so will make further visits (without a fishing rod!) to check on this beat to see if conditions improve - or not.

Day three of my trip with more hail and the never ending cold downstream wind.The desire to endlessly cast the long rod with French leader searching for numbers had left me so snoozing on the bank waiting for flushes of March Browns at likely looking spots seemed like the Gentlemanly thing to do. The short action that happened rewarded me with three fish with the best at a very solidly built 17" which put up a great fight. All taken on size 14 para Adams.

3 Trout

Cold downstream wind, but fish still holding in faster pockets and runs. Needed to fish deep with short lined nymph.

5 Trout

River low and clear, sunny in morning then more cloud. Hatches from 12 30, caught 5 rising trout, one good fish. Finished at 3 due to committments, felt hatches might easily have continued into the afternoon. Didn't fish top three pools just past the farm - 15+ canoeists were above and below the little waterfall practising er canoeing over little waterfalls...

5 Trout

Bright and sunny but a cold east wind. Very little hatching: just a few LDOs and occasional March brown. One 12" brownie on KMC olive. Otherwise tough going.

1 Trout

1 times Brown Trout 11 inches approx 1lb caught on a Ginger dry fly at 1320. There was a prolific hatch at 1300 and lasted for about 30 mins. Water conditions were very good and sporadic fly throughout the day.

1 Trout