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Very quiet with few rises. Fish easily spooked and no luck with nymphs in faster water. Very picturesque.

1 Trout

Started fishing 6pm after heavy cloud burst. Nevertheless steady rising fish in pools and riffles. All fish caught on dry fly adams 14 and 16

8 Trout

Abundant insect life and lots of different species. Pale yellow mayflies hatching all afternoon. On the whole, difficult to spot what they were rising to thought did see several mayflies taken mainly close to the far bank.
Got 3 on nymphs: ptn and he.
Main entrance gate across from the lay-by a challenge: multi-knotted plastic string impossible to undo so it was a climb over and avoid barb wire job. Waders are expensive!

3 Trout

Tough fishing today - not much hatching or rising for most of the day, probably due to the sunshine. Although at least that got me to the riverbank - had spent the last three days in bed with a fever. Daytime fishing also wasn't helped much by a family wild camping on the far bank - on arrival at the bottom of the beat, found two boys returning from upstream on the far bank with a spinning rod. They had a break for tea then came back all along the far bank with the rest of the family and a gigantic dog, who they repeatedly yelled at to not charge across the river at me. Then they all jumped into Quarry pool for a swim, great... roll on the school holidays eh? The trout understandaby went down for a while having seen their first bear in several hundred years, but there was little fly-life at that point anyway. Once things calmed down a bit in the evening there was a bit of activity - some pale wateries and small spinners came out for a couple of hours. Could really have caught a couple more, but lost one big fish when the hook just came out after a spirited run, then lost another nice fish of c. 15" at the net which was entirely my fault due to tying a dodgy knot in my weakened state (don't usually do that!). Nice to finally get one off the top though and avoid the blank with a rise to a rusty spinner. Was hoping it would get even better towards dusk, but it then all died away completely as the temperature plummeted- think it got too cold. Worth waiting for the early evening flurry though, and a beautiful beat as always!

1 Trout

1 Trout

20+ Usk brownies on this lovely beat on the dry fly. Unfortunately the barbed wire reported by others is no joke. The upper section has nice stiles and you are protected from the wire. The first three gates you need to take care going over and around. Next time I’ll be using my 7.5 foot rod on this beat as a lot is tree covered in the bottom section. Thanks for using what3words WUF, directions brill as always.

20 Trout

Plenty of fish rising but struggled for takes, finally got one on a small black gnat. Lovely day.

1 Trout

A beautiful stretch of the Usk with plenty of fishable water. Despite prolific hatches very few rising fish and it proved a very frustrating day. Just one lovely fish between 2 of us but it probably says as much about the fishermen as the fish! We will definitely return. 1 x 14" BT on a gold head PTN.

1 Trout

Nice beat but lots of barbed wire to get over from field to field. I'm sure access could be made easier rather than having to wade around. Low clear water so challenging but if you got the right riffle you could get fish euronymphing. Rainbow warrior the top pattern. Despite huge fly life no fish rising consistently even as the sun went down, and only one slashy rise to a dry all day.

8 Trout