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4 brown trout in total. No fish taken. Caught on Goldhead, Pheasant Tail Nymph, Klinkhammer,Coch Y Bhonddu.
Great days fishing and stunning scenery - real value for money.

2 rods ,1 10" wbt on a stonefly nymph,caught & released, a few tugs and splashy arrivals at dries all missed. Thoroughly enjoyed the day, great conditions but not skillful enough.

Glan Usk has some lovely water and looked perfect. Weather unpredictable - sunshine and squally showers, which meant hatches unpredictable. Some large dark olives, olive uprights and medium olives, best early afternoon. Occasional members of march brown family seen but not convinced are march browns so a prisoner taken for identification purposes. Typical early season Usk fishing - challenging - but 6 fish caught between PB, JB and JS. JS had the best - a plump fish 15". Just as we were thinking about finishing a lovely fresh silver tourist was desporting herself.

Had a good early season day on Glanusk on Sunday last before the rain came - 6 browns to 16" to 3 rods all on dry fly during sporadic large dark olive and brook dun hatches. At the time 9" on the gauge and falling!

The river was dropping away and clearing after the recent rain. There was an appreciable downstream wind but because of the bend in the lower beat it was possible to get out of it to some extent. A sporadic hatch of olives from about 1 o'clock provoked some activity and I caught 3 fish of about 10" on dark spiders. Then found some rising fish in a quiet glide and caught 3 more from the surface. So, 6 altogether all returned.

15 brown trout between 2 rods - up to 14" and all returned.

I trout weighing 1.5 lbs from the shallow gravel run at the extreme West of the beat. Caught on a buzzer dropper at about 4 pm on a cloudy afternoon with occasional drizzle. I had forgotten my return form but put a piece of paper in the box to that effect. The Glanusk estate is always a joy to fish on and the booking through Wye and Usk is very efficient indeed. Thanks to everyone. By the way, I kept the trout and it was delicious!

6 trout, 4 of which were over a pound and beautiful examples of Usk trout. After a fruitless morning, afterlunch I started to rise fish on a dry Adams. Unfortunately part way through this purple patch it was time to change beats. I stayed for a while watching the fish rise and when I left the beat was devoid of anglers. So quite frustrating really.

Worth the trip to see the dawn breaking on such a beautiful day. Casting a salmon fly on the estate's lovely pools was a treat, but didn't see a salmon at either dawn or dusk.
Trout were unimpressed by the the 26 degree heat but humoured my tungsten beaded usk naylor by giving it a little tug now and then. Missed many more than hooked but ended up with a 3/4 lb stockie, then 4 wbt, 4-8 ozs. Slept well after such a full day.
Once again, thanks to wuf and glanusk staff. Last chance saloon Chainbridge next week!

Had a most enjoyable day even without seeing a salmon. The sheer pleasure of casting a salmon fly in such beautiful surroundings. River reluctant to drop and carrying some colour. Had a sleep on bank at half time {after very early start} and was woken by two helicopters overhead. Perhaps they thought I'd pegged it! Saw three goosanders one of which was fishing considerably more competently than me. Didn't blank though. Caught and safely returned a feisty brownie which was at least half as big again as the flying C with which it picked an argument. Back to do it all over again next week.
Once again, thanks to the WUF and Glanusk staff, charming and helpful as ever.