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Rained off, no fishing

2 trout caught fly fishing and returned.no salmon caught or seen.

2 Trout

cool wind with only a few fish showing any time it dropped
A couple of eager parr provided some excitement but otherwise no luck fishing dries and dries + small nymphs

A lovely and unlucky evening for me, missing takes on upstream nymph and losing two nice fish hooked on a small parachute pattern. The evening rise was a lot more sporadic than last sunday

Another hot and sunny day. I only had half a day to spend.

2 Salmon, 3 Trout

2 small salmon parr and several trout caught. Most of the trout were small, but had two or three decent size.
Very hot and sunny day so really not good conditions for fishing, and the river was rather quiet.
As has been said many times the beat has become very overgrown, and access to the river is difficult. I was with Chris Price (see castingwithstyle.co.uk) who is a fabulous guide and was able to take me to the best parts and easier access points. If Chris hadn't have been with me it would have been really difficult.
I love the Fishing Passport scheme but really feel they need pay attention to these matters when people are paying money to fish.

13 Trout, 2 Other

I had a beautiful evening fishing this wonderful stretch of the Usk. Yes access is tricky but not impossible. I'd advise the use of a stout wading staff on the banks with quite a lot of clambering to be expected. This river is absolutely teeming with trout, many of which seem to be some considerable size. Despite careful presentation of a dry fly I could not induce takes on the slow moving shallower sections where trout were freely rising to sedge (I think?). From 7 onwards things got more exciting and after many takes missed I managed a beauty of a fish (around 2lbs) on a black parachute fished upstream. My second of the evening was on the same fly fished across and down into a run that was clearly teeming with fish.

2 Trout

Weather hot two small trout in morning on nymphs and one larger in afternoon on a klink. Access on river Bank not easy.

3 Trout