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A nice few hours in the morning.. 3 to olive sedge

3 Trout

I've never caught on my three previous visits to this beat. It's so picturesque here I booked it again for a first-time visiting guest. He said it 'was perhaps the most beautiful place I have ever been'.... skunked again.

Included in the fish caught were largest 3 lb 3 ozs , also 2 lb and 2x1 lbs. A memorable days fishing on a superb beat. Beautiful surroundings, will be visiting again. Method used wet fly (silver bodied march brown and march brown variant with a red rib.)

6 Trout

Just the one fish to hand today but bounced off a couple of good sized fish and where all up in the wooded section which is a fabulous section and just to be in there is a joy . River was very quiet with surface activity which kind of figures with the time of year , was hoping for late evening spinner /sedge action but not today. River bed is pretty greasy in places , had a few interesting moments! A nice number of fish on the go up top just above the mini waterfall (see pic)as you go in to wooded section , midway along the pool length and rising under the trees .Missed a couple in fabulous run below waterfall.
Besides trying to get one or two of the very good fish in the net that reside up here the mission was to soldier on up to the Senni confluence and have now sussed that out and here's how if its of help to others - hop over the wall at the road bridge across the river where there is a garden gate (padlocked) and follow the garden hedge to the right a short way(had a good chat with the house owner here as did think I may be encroaching on his garden but no problem at all ) and very shortly there's a set of stone steps down to the river . Go down those and then its flat bedrock with very little water running over (at this low flow) then walk up till you get to the tail end of a big long deep looking pool (could be interesting if there's a hatch on) and there you can scramble up the bank in to the long field .Follow the hedge line (skinny water for most part here above deep pool ) and then there's a hedged 'compound' with a set of large locked gates as you approach and about 25 yards before there you can get down the bank ok . Fabulous looking big pool here, verrry fishy and deep and with good flow too, flat bedrock slabs on the bank side so you can work up the side of the pool to next good pool above . That's as far as I got and only had time for few casts a the light as going and bit of a trek back to car park but looking at Google earth it looks like there's some interesting water around the corner and confluences can be good ! Next time.

1 Trout

The weather was so hot that I gave up. Nil catch.

A bright day on a lovely stretch of river with many features further upstream. Levels fairly low and few fish rising. Fished dries and nymphs with no success. A nice walk through the woods.

Lovely scenery but the fishing was very hard

2 Trout

River in flood - unable to fish

First time to ever fish the Usk. booked this total blind,so it was more of a adventure. Parked at car park 2, on the bridge, fish downstream czeph nymphing,a few fast pools and started catching straight away,not big,,say 10/12 inch fish,but great...after 2/3 runs below bridge it starts getting impossible to fish, slow deep pools over bed rock, once you're out of the wood it opens up and gets better, the water was low,,but fish in most of the fast runs,,most small best went 14 inches. Not a lot rising which was disappointed as flies everywhere. Best nymph was a coffee coloured tungsten ptn.
Went as far as big waterfall then walked back to car...to refuel and have a drink.looked at map and wanted to fish upstream left bank above bridge but wasn't great here,,and hard to get in the water,so called it a day.possibly should have gone lower down.not a soul around.

11 Trout