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It was high and full of colour Sat day and avo, beginning to clear in the eve. Rained over night and on Sun morning it was up again. Only came good on Sunday eve, when I could get down next, and the trout were finally on the rise and the river back to a good level and clearer.
Had one on early eve and it came off after short, but great fight. Beautiful beat and lovely owners. Missed it very much.

A lovely first visit to the Usk, unfortunately a tad swollen and muddy due to recent thunderstorms but still seemingly an entomologists dream. Very few rising however, so nymphs were deployed through most of the day on my 7' 3#, to end with a couple of 8" B.T. one on a green GH, one on klink and dink. Tried a heavy nymph in pocket water, and a dry late in the day (water dropped and cleared in the day) to no avail.
An interesting beat with plenty of variety, items of note; good access, handy facilities onsite due to campsite, some disturbance around house/camp if you seek total solitude - plenty of water to explore.
Saw dippers at close range, a merganser with 7 chicks, otter tracks, other birds and insects aplenty. Thank you W&U

2 Trout

River high and full of colour most of day. Dropped off and clearing by eve. Fish seemed spooked by flood. Not a single rise. Beautiful re-exploring this fantastic beat again. Loved it.

Return visit from a couple of days ago to fish the lower sections. The river is in reasonable condition but the slowest sections are a bit murky.
Massive amount of fly life throughout most of the day but with very little surface activity. Managed to rise 7 on deer hair emerger and yellow may fly pattern. Best was 11". For those that don't know -( I didn't) - the bottom fields on both banks are camping and caravanning sites. I only fished there as I spotted a few rises but I failed to connect. I suspected that these fish were a fair size. Managed not to hook a tent or the helpful child who was lobbing rocks into the river.
Moved upstream and stayed until 6:00ish when thunder indicated a storm approaching - so decided it was not best to stand in a river with a 10' lightning conductor in my hand!

7 Trout

Fantastic piece of river - had a great day plus as a bonus one fish felt sympathy for me and he went back happy. I am very new to this game - I watched and matched the hatch as it swarmed across the river but nothing was hungry. Not a single rise. I understand someone caught 12 from here the day before so maybe they were still suffering swollen lips.

1 Trout

Few mayfly around. Great hatch of ldo's & bwo's. Trout came up had cracking day with fish to 2.5lbs.

12 Trout

Having had a taster session here two weeks ago, I decided to explore the beat again today. On a pretty nice day, albeit with a stregthening easterly breeze, there was nowhere near as much morning and afternoon fly as two weeks back, and fly appeared much later in the morning as well. Many fewer OUs in particular but there were some of these, plus some olives, large brook duns and latterly some mayfly, then lots of midge and sedges. Rising fish, of which there were more than enough, some of which were seen clearly to take duns but many others were nymphing, were pretty picky to emerger patterns and, in retrospect, I should have spent more time using light nymphs and spiders. That said, nine fish with many of 14-15", took olive and hare's ear emergers. A somewhat frustrating day at times with an important old lesson re-learnt!

9 Trout

First time here..lovely beat with varied water. The slight upstream breeze turned into unhelpful cold east wind. However there are numerous sheltered spots both above and below the bridge.
Had success with various dries for 10 WBT - best was 18 inches which took a elk hair emerger pattern.

10 Trout

Three rods fished and we couldn't believe the river was fishable after the day before - it was choclate brown and swollen. We had been washed off Fenny Fach on the Saturday.
Penpont on the Sunday was fine, slightly more colour but well fishable. My friends Peter and Marco mainly fished dry they both caught well, I fished mainly on nymph and caught some good fish biggest around the 2lb mark. Still lots of Mayfly around.

27 Trout

Following yesterday's marathon, managed a couple of hours only in the morning to no great effect other than to enjoy the Usk valley.

1 Trout