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Excellent day out, 4 trout on copper john.

4 Trout

on the positive side I saw otters, dippers.egrets and kingfishers. there were trout feeding until the sun finally broke through at around 2pm. the fish beat me and that can happen. it has been around ten years since i fished this beat before it became a foundation water, and in that time it does not look as though any bank side work has been done. the access in and out of the river is very poor especially the lower end of the beat. this makes getting in and out of the water dangerous and damaging to waders as there are many brambles hidden in the undergrowth. this used to be such a lovely beat,but in its present condition i cannot recommend it and will not be returning. sorry for this negative observation but action is required.

1 Trout

This was my first time fishing on the Usk for Trout and what a terrific beat it is! Water levels meant that you could really get into the river and at the fish. This river is teeming with life. Our first trout was caught on a black nymph and then the second two on a green Klinkhammer pattern. Clearly the fish were feeding just under the surface of the water. Our best trout was a 1.5lb beauty, caught at the bottom of the beat in the tail of the first pool. A glorious day in a glorius setting.

3 Trout

River low and water warm. Oppressive heat. No fly life to speak of. No fish activity.

Took advantage of the evening ticket. 2 trout in first hour. Lovely evening

2 Trout

All fish safely returned. Quite difficult to access in places

3 Trout

Hot day and low flow in the river so it was always going to be difficult. One trout caught between us in 5 hours so we headed for the pub.

1 Trout

Extremely hot and low water. Not much chance really but very nice place. I will return when conditions are better.

Evening ticket; and lovely to be out on the longest day of the year in a gloriously sunny evening. I am still something of a novice with larger rivers and I don't feel I did this justice as there was a pretty promising evening rise. Spent the entire time fishing small dries and hooked 3 but couldn't seem to make anything stick!

Excellent day, warm and overcast. Lots of fish rising. Good hatch of yellow mays that the fish would not touch. Most productive fly grey duster size 18/20 Fish up to 1.25lb

11 Trout