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Usk low and clear after no rain in weeks and another hot day. Plenty of pools and pocket water to creep up on though. One 10” wbt on the wet in the morning. A couple of larger fish seen but not moved. Lots of lazy rises towards the evening, but don’t think I managed to figure out what they were taking! First time on the Usk, will definitely return..

1 Trout

Booked an evening ticket, but then found a new definition of torture as I sat in nose to tail traffic between Bristol and Cardiff - absolute agony, almost gave up and only arrived after 7! However at least the temperature was a lot cooler up in the Brecons as hoped from the forecast - only 19-20C while it was 26C below. On arriving at the river my luck changed as there was a smattering of BWOs hatching for the rest of the evening, some spinners later too. Lots of fish rising to them, in a short session fishing dries I caught three smallish ones (9, 10 and 11"), then connected with a hog that gave a proper scrap and nearly lost me under some roots. Photo attached, doesn't do him justice really as it was a bit dark under the trees and had to use flash with my mobile. Measured 19.75" to the tail fork, so obviously being a fisherman I'll round up to the magic 20 (he was 20 to the tip of the tail! :D). I didn't want to mess him around too much so didn't weigh, but sure he would have been 3lb, maybe a few ounces more as these Usk trout always go heavy on the size conversion charts. He went well back well along with the others. Thanks for another lovely session - short but sweet!

4 Trout

River very low and water very warm. Only managed to catch one small fish on a dry dropper setup.

1 Trout

bright sunshine and very low water - few fish seen

1 Trout

Very low hot.

We fished after de rain from 18-22 between quarrypool en junction pool. Each of us catched 1 trout and each hooked but lost another 3-4. Instects: red spent mediim, pond olive spent, small dark olive spent. Hardly any sedges, some mayfly late dusk.
Best flies: once&Away cdc emergers no 18 pale yellow with pkume cdc, klinkhammer nr 14-16, red spent, pale yellow spent.
Nice beautiful beat. Mind there is a awkward piece of iron just beside de fence from quary pool upstream. Its a wader killer.

2 Trout

Water starting to look low.

This lovely beat has been spoiled by the recent addition of barbed wire and locks on the 3 access gates and styles by the farmer, which has completely blocked off the top 30% of the beat. It seems this is a deliberate measure, an attempt to stop people fishing here.

The only access is to wade into this section, which is not ideal as it is slippery bedrock, so if you are with somebody with mobility issues or for an evening as it gets dark it will be impassable.

Can WUF raise this issue with the landowner? Access should be much better here, given the ticket cost. Effectively the top half of the beat will be out of bounds for most.

7 trout landed to 14 inches, most on dry fly in the Quarry pool.

7 Trout

A truly beautiful beat, which I was trying for the first time. Similar in some ways to Fenni Fach. The waterfall at the top of the beat is worth the trip. Got there at about 2.30 and stayed til 7.30. Good conditions, warm and cloudy with an only occasional upstream breeze. Tried a little pocket water fishing up from the bottom of the beat using a PTN but no luck. Spent some time at the junction pool casting to rising fish. I could spy some much bigger fish nosing around the shallows, but no matter how stealthily I repositioned myself, they had always ghosted away by the time I was able to cast to them. I moved up to the top of the beat to explore and eventually caught a couple of small trout in the pool running after the waterfall at the top of the beat. Parachute Adams. A great day, despite the lack of fish caught.

2 Trout

No fish caught or seen despite the hatches throughout the day.
Very low water!