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Six nice brownies for me all on the dry, on a very difficult day.

The weather was dry but the conditions hugely variable, with the wind changing strength and direction frequently throughout the day. At times it was flat calm, and others so strong I couldn't cast.

To make matters worse the fish seemed to only want the smallest fly on the lightest tippet, this combined with the wind made for very tough presentation.

Still had a great day despite difficult conditions.

6 Trout

Started Sunny but then clouded over. Should have been perfect fishing conditions. Plenty of flies hatching and some rises…

… didn’t work out for me today though.

6 fish landed, up to 2-2.5lb, lovely beat, although water now getting low. Lots of fish visible, all taken on dry fly

6 Trout

Full, cool day with occasional drizzle. Flies hatching intermittently over the day (olives) with fish regularly rising. Fished bottom of the beat most of the day. Fish difficult to tempt and lost several but landed one lovely WBT of about 14”

1 Trout

Fished Upstream dry fly for trout as salmon looked very unlikely. Not many rising trout. A couple of early mayfly spotted. Rocks covered in slippery weed through much of the beat.

1 Trout

Fairly ropey beat for trout anglers. When low especially. Access is terrible with no bank work for many years. Large parts of the beat are canal like. Uniform depth, flow etc no features to fish too. I wouldn't book this again as a trout angler.

A glorious Spring day. Mostly sun with occasional cloud. Temp up to 19C. Wind light and variable to start then settled upstream happily. Fished 11.00 to 16.00. No hatch of any kind although spinners were dancing in sheltered areas and some laying. Without being disturbed by trout... I only saw 1 fish rise all day but by fishing likely seams and riffles with an Olive Comparadun hooked 4 and netted 3 stunning condition trout of circa 2.5 lbs. Another wonderful afternoon on the river.

3 Trout

A very difficult day. No fly, no rises and very sulky fish. Just one (a 16”er) was tempted by a Duracell nymph in fast water.

1 Trout

A glorious spring day, but not for fishing. Nil return

One of the better days on the usk that we’ve had. Arrived with plenty of fish rising but they were still clever enough to avoid our flies.

Managed to catch a couple out of the faster water at the top of the first pool as well as losing another two. About 1 o clock the rising stopped and fishing slowed down. By mid afternoon things picked up again and another three were caught including a nice 22/23 inch fish which, after a bit of fight in the faster water, took a while to recover but after 15 minutes or so happily swam back off.

5 Trout