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The fishing wasn’t as good as I was hoping after the recent rain with only fish up to 13” coming to the net. A variety of up wings were coming of along with sedge but not in any great numbers and the rises were sporadic. A size 18 cdc pale watery worked well. Two open ( Canadian) canoeists came through and one of them got a bit confrontational when I asked if they had checked the red line on the webcam.

10 Trout

Fished afternoon & evening, using nymph. Water and weather looked very promising, with the river falling slowly after recent rain, but the fish didn't seem hungry. Nothing at all in the afternoon, and one brown trout of about 6oz in the evening. Nice day, though, and no Himalayan Balsam on this beat!

1 Trout

Water temp at around 18C so opted to not fish but have a good close look at the river.

A gorgeous beat. Water was low, wind was strong, and the fish did not come out of hiding until the gloaming, when I managed two on an IOBO humpy. A gorgeous stretch of river.

2 Trout

4 Trout

Spent the most of the evening stalking one fish and got it. It was worth it!

1 Trout

Evening session. Good hatch of very small upwings, not sure what they were. Plenty of trout rising apparently to emergers but very hard to get them to take. Best results, as ever, just before it is too dark to see.

3 Trout

Another hard day on the Usk. It was cold, wet and windy but this is still a lovely stretch of water. We did not catch anything and saw little sign of fish at the surface, with the exception of one short stretch just above the large pool at the bottom of the beat. Here we both tried without success to catch at least one of what seemed to be many fish feeding at the surface over a period of about 2 hours. We tried everything: many dry patters and sizes, emergers, spiders.... No idea what they were feeding on but we certainly did not have anything like it - not a single bit of interest in anything we had to offer.

Two trout caught, 14" and 9". Another larger trout lost. All caught on nymphs under a dry fly. Some fish rising sporadically. Beautiful stretch of river.

2 Trout