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River low and cold. A few fish seen on the Usk but none caught.

Good hatch around 1pm. A few rises seen, had one take but not landed.

Gorgeous bright sunny day. No hatch and no rises!

3 Trout

Glorious sunny day with an easterly wind so not ideal. Very little hatching and even fewer rises. Saved the day with one 40cm trout on a speculatively cast paradun. Water very, very clear and getting a wee bit low - 0.381 on the Trallong gauge. Saw a patch of ranunculus !

1 Trout

Very cold and windy, nothing rising or caught.

Dry fly caught nice brown returned

1 Trout

Fantastic beat, lots of big trout sipp9ng off the surface even in the middle of the day. Lots three lumps from the same pool due to poor quality tippet, finally landed a couple later on.

My fishing chum had a decent one out of the mouth of the Senni and four others in the main river.

7 Trout

No fish caught. Not that surprising as one rod had never fly fished before (and doesn't fish) and the other rod was tutoring a lot and isn't that experienced on rivers anyway. Plus we only fished the middle of the day. The setting is great, kingfishers, dippers etc. The water was incredibly low. We saw several fish in the deeper pools but the only fish rising consistently that we saw, was safely tucked away under a tree!

Such an amazing place, and so beautiful. Epic upper Usk. Shallows, deep gullies, waterfalls… it’s got it all. Amazing rock formations too. River was low, but it did have a good bit of flow after yesterday’s rain (no rain for the previous two weeks or so). Clear water, so fish easily spooked. Mixed conditions, heavily overcast most of the day, rain showers and maybe 10 minutes of sun!

Odd glare off the surface was hard to contend with. Polarised glasses helped, but it was so dark on occasions that they became useless. Two fish caught, one more lost just before the net. Decent size fish, probably 14” approx, and thick. Klinkhammer indicator with nymph below, all taken on nymph.

2 Trout