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Tough day's fishing.

Zero rises and the trout weren't as interested in nymphs as usual. Plus I had to leave the river at about 1600 so I missed the evening.

Water level is very low.

7 Trout

2 Trout

Almost no rises but the fish were into nymphs - especially an orange perdigon. Presumably that looks like a caddis nymph in the faster water.

17 Trout

Bright dry day, but a pretty severe downstream wind picked up and it was no fun after that. Not been to this beat before. Plenty of water was really slow and not much doing - I suspect would be much better when the level is up a bit.
Sadly I didn't make it down to the bottom of the beat. As someone with a significant dog phobia I was horrified by the disclaimer for injury caused by farm dogs!

2 Trout

Dry fly very hard with wind and rain but lovely beat.

3 Trout

Only fished for a few hours, had 5 trout all on dries. Medium olives and yellow emergers working well. Not ideal conditions, very low and windy.

Lost a sizable fish which will keep me awake tonight.

5 Trout

A more overcast day today with a nagging downstream wind. Very little fly activity in the afternoon though a fish of a little over a pound was taken in the fast water run below the bridge and a very small trout on a PTN too. We crossed the (extremely low) river and explored the farm flats at the bottom of the beat in the evening. Thankfully it was much more sheltered there and there was a better hatch and, eventually rising fish. The hatch was a bit of everything, mayflies, olive spinners and sundry tiny flies. We couldn’t (again) seem to work out what they were taking. But, at around 8.30, I put on a small sedge -even though I couldn’t see any hatching, and cast to a regular riser close into the bank, downstream of a pile of dead wood. The tiny riseforms were misleading. One battle later, a very fat two and a quarter pounder was in the net. A cracking fish and great fun. Final day of our trip today and the wind is really up. Crossing our fingers…

3 Trout

Very tough conditions. Usk is as low as we've known it and bright hot sunshine most of the day. All but a couple of the stretches of faster water are too skinny to hold fish and the slower stretches are even slower. Only 9 fish between three of us but of those three were at 2lb and two at 1lb.

9 Trout

Rainy morning and sunny afternoon. Few fish active during the day but lots of rising fish in the last hour before dusk when there was a large hatch of mayfly. 3 fish caught were all around 1 lb in weight. Caught on sulphur dun mayfly.

3 Trout

2 Trout