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First time on this new WUF beat. Simple to find, easy access and safe parking. Grey, cold day with a chilly North West wind and plenty of water barreling down the Usk. Quite a varied beat with fast deep gullies and some very deep pools below the island. With nothing rising and precious little fly around nymphed unsuccessfully for two hours. Given the depth and flow of the river found it difficult to get my bugs down deep enough.
Over lunch on the bank had a think about tactics and with a few LDO's and Yellow Mayfly beginning to show in the tail of the pool above the island changed to a French Partridge and was rewarded with 5 pristine wbt. All in the 12"-14" class, wild as the Usk and fin perfect. Each take was very, very aggressive accompanied by all sorts of aerial acrobatics. All returned safely. The action stopped just as quickly as it had started, the fishing window being between 2pm and 4pm.
Really enjoyed this beat, lots of variety and am looking forward to fishing it again with perhaps a little less water and warmer climes to get more out of it.

River flooded off. Great to be able to re-book

Fished Glan-y-Cafn today, plenty of trout about, brother had a dozen or so, mainly on goldhead grhe's fished on a Tenkara rod (1st time out). Didn't see (or contact) any salmon. Couldn't make most of the beat as the water was too high to wade (above chesties) and the tree canopy making casting even a 13 ft rod difficult.

Will be back when about 10" on the Glan Usk gauge.

None, river in flood.

Did not fish.

4 browns (6-12") caught on nymph. 1 other lost(possibly the biggest of the day) on balloon caddis. Cold & windy conditions, with sporadic hatches of grannom & LDO between the rain squalls. Very few fish seen rising. Only fished the right bank, top half of the beat (between 11.30-18.30). No signage demarcating the beat limits, and not that clear from the map either.

Fortunate to have three hours of lovely weather between 11am and 2pm. No surface activity but caught over 10 trout on ptn - largest circa 2lb. Weather deteriorated after that and the fishing with it. Hatch of grannom on upper pool about 3.30 pm. Fish not switched on to them. Left at 4pm - satisfied. Enjoyed my day - nice spot, good access and varied water. Map of beat does not show large island and it is not clear where top and bottom of beat actually is. Also no clear pathways at top and bottom. I found this unsatisfactory. Otherwise, most enjoyable.

Rain all morning then brightened up, but still chill light wind. Lovely early evening sun was welcome. Rising fish very picky with several clear takes missed but took a very strong 15" brown trout at the down stream end of the beat in the slower water, late on at 5pm on an Adams 14. Good new beat with plenty of variety. Thank you.

12 x trout 9-18 inches. First time for me on an interesting and unusual beat. You reach the river down cottage garden steps and find yourself on some hundreds of yards of concrete and timber walkway built immediately over salmon lies, mainly deep and fast-flowing water water. Feeding trout come up into some of this water; if you take one you have to kneel and reach down to net it. Be a little wary, because the river has been eating away at this structure over the years and some of the lower section is in bad repair. I had a clumsy fall when a piece of concrete moved under me and strained my wrist trying to save myself. Much of the big pool below can be waded, but it's also worth mentioning a need to watch out for barbed wire in the bank. This looked to be a good day, with lots of water coming down. Another rod and I had an interesting time puzzling out a slow-burning grannom hatch after lunch: 10-12 inch trout were quite keen to take spiders. That was ended by an intense shower of rain about 4 o'clock, but I'm glad I went back to the river afterwards as fish began to move again. Last cast of the day produced a "proper" wild Usk trout, a fat hen fish of 18 inches which took a Hare's Lug and Plover spider. A very enjoyable day, although the casting wrist is still aching!

Some nibbles, but none landed unfortunately!