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Another beautiful day on the Usk. However, not ideal fishing conditions. Strong cool breeze and very clear water made it difficult to get a fly anywhere near a fish. Nil return.

A later start than I hoped for due to my fishing friends breakfast requirements (a full fry-up). 10am start and welcomed by a head wind that didn't help our rusty casting.
A fair bit of fly on the water but then the gusts of wind blew them back into their hiding places.
After lunch a few yellow mayfly were being picked off by beautiful birds (sorry about the lack of bird and fly knowledge). A couple of trout were rising between the gusts. I managed to entice a small trout that wriggled off the hook before I could land it.
We fished mainly on the surface mixing it up with Mayfly, Parachutes, Adams and other small brown flies. Two sets of people were spinning the other side of the single bank fishing sections.
Finished at 6pm due to my fishing friends rumbling tummy, I'm sure if we continued fishing we would have caught more.

1 Trout

Back on the Usk after 45 years!
Very little fly life and only saw 5 fish move. Rose and caught two on a jingler, but really hard work due to an increasingly stiff downstream wind.

3 Trout

Lovely warm sunny day but not much happening. Dries did best but not many fish to cast to.

4 Trout

Grim weather. Howling wind and pouring rain, but olives hatchings en masse and plenty of fish rising. Best pattern Para Adams but a brown Klink also produced. Most fish in the 3/4 to 1 lb, best around 1 1/2 lb.

16 Trout

Cold strong downstream wind. Good olive hatch. Rising fish were localised in various parts of steady water in the beat. Caught on tan klink, CDC shuttlecock, olive parachute.

9 Trout

Water had cooled dow a few degrees from my last visit. Started off on dry this was difficult, fish not showing much interest. Switched to nymph and started to connect with a few fish, biggest fish around a pound and a half. Went back on to dry early evening and had a few more, fishing a cdc olive pattern.
Lots of fly life ,loads of caddis, a few yellow may, pretty sure I saw some BWO, lots of spinners, and just the odd mayfly.

8 Trout

Lovely stretch. Water almost gin clear. Fishing quite hard. I saw three rises all day; rose one of them but missed it. Herons preceeded me up the beat. No luck on any dry fly. I caught two fish both on a beaded black ptn by fishing downstream into the tail of a fall. However one of these was one of the biggest fish I have caught on the Usk. When it took my nymph and jumped out of the water it was so big I thought it was a salmon! I had positioned myself on the rocks of the falls and had to make a pretty undignified dash to the water below landing the beauty after a really spirited fight. I released the monster trout for another day.

2 Trout

Tough day fishing with the water being low and clear. Saw several fish moving but managed to spook most of them.

2 Trout

Lost x 2 trout, during the day, so blank. Still, I enjoyed the day. One comment I would have is that of access to some of the named pools on this beat is quite difficult and could be improved by the provision of wooden steps in certain areas.