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Lovely, pretty beat (my first time here) but blanked, unfortunately. French nymphed for most of the day and lost 3. Not a lot of insect life about but maybe that's usual as the season progresses around here. Would like to come back and try again.
Thanks WUF.

Just fished for a couple of hours late evening. Fish started rising at about 10pm but they seemed to be mainly wee ones. Lovely to be out on a warm summer evening though!

2 Trout

Hot, low river, blank. Watched an otter from the bridge for 5 minutes.

Not a lot of water at the moment and the sun (not overcast and rain BBC) didn't help matters on this great beat but we both enjoyed the day. It started with a quick preview of the beat where we spotted a a large otter patrolling below the salmon pool, a great sight but unnerving when my mate told me how much fish they need to consume to survive, and what if there were pups ?!
I managed to net a smallish wbt at the start and then went to find where my partner was. I can still see it now, I found him in a nice looking run under quite a bit of tree cover, looking dazed and confused, wrapped up in line annd holding a "birds nest" in his hand. In three casts he'd had a brief meeting with a "Penpont Porker" that dove rolled and shed the hook and then netted a very good fish only for it to leap out again when trying to remove the fly. He now knows what this beat is capable of and has vowed to return, unfinished business apparently.

2 Trout

Had a lovely day on a really nice beat. Tough days fishing due to non cooperative fish but managed to snag three small Browns and lost a much bigger fish due to barbless hooks. All caught on beaded nymphs in the fast water. Very pleasant owner with good parking and access.

4 Trout

Cold north easterly, only saw a handful of rises. All taken on a tungsten bead quill nymph under an indicator.

7 Trout

It all started so well - a lovely fish to a mayfly pattern in the lower section of the beat. Two more fish on nymphs as I made my way through the broken water - and that was that. Very little activity on the surface despite an abundance of fly life.

3 Trout

Two trout on the dry, both returned.

2 Trout

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