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Coldish day with a nagging NE breeze and showers didn't do much to encourage the hatches. However there was some sun and this seemed to stimulate insect activity periodically. Various upwinged species were on the move, including LDOs and small mayfly. Water was clear and cold.

Fished as well as I could have expected given the conditions. Netted 3 browns including a superb 2lb specimen. 2 fish took a tungsten PTN, the other a parachute Adams. All fish in prime condition and safely returned

Blank day; river clearing after heavy rainfall 36 hours before. Cold northerly wind though fine and sunny day. Good fly hatch and very occasional small fish rising. No immitation fly came close to working! Lovely stretch of river.

2 Trout Caught on the Penpont beat.

1st - 08oz (est) on a Bead Head Pheasant Tail Nymph
2nd - 4lb (est)on an unweighted GRHE nymph

2 x trout 12 inches and 18 inches. The larger fish was a lovely fat one. Everybody got excited (including the fish for a short time) about a supposed march brown hatch that afternoon. I took specimens of a male and female, and when I got home came to the conclusion they are probably large brook dun. I will send them in - see what you think. We are now well into May (although it feels more like April) and I haven't identified a definite march brown yet from the Usk.

River very low and clear, very little hatching but occasional fish rising right in the shallows beside the bank. Very strong downstream wind made fishing to those fish very challenging indeed. Nothing caught. Encountered a lady fishing who said she had the owners permission to fish whenever she liked. Last year we met a man and grandson fishing who said the same thing.

River running low and clear so fishing difficult, managed a couple of trout on nymphs. Fly life steady through the day with no major hatch. Saw a mink by the main house.

Another cracking day on the river but had to work hard for the fish caught. Had two small trout around 8inches and one good fish of 16inches, again all taken on pheasent tails nymphs. Saw one fish rising in the middle of the beat but put it down with a sloppy cast! There was again a good hatch of large dark olives from midday onwards.

Fished from 9-2pm, no fish seen or taken. Lovely beat, will be back in a few weeks, I suspect once the weather has warmed up the hatches will be more prolific and hopefully the fish.

Apart from catching one small trout I didn't see another fish all day. A lovely varied beat well worth revisiting later in the year.

No fish taken, again water levels seemed too low. Some steady trickle of mayfly hatch (March Brown?), also stonefly in the morning! Some fish up to 1lb sighted nymphing but not caught.
Lovely stretch of the Usk, I imagine that it's a real winner within the next few months!