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River a tad high, water a tad coloured, fish a tad absent, wind a tad strong. Great beat, shared with an otter.

Very windy and wet day few fish rising but incredible number of olives hatching all day. Dries unsuccessful but small nymphs did the trick.

11 Trout

Horrible strong downstream wind made fishing a real challenge. Some good hatches of olives and mayfly nevertheless. A big hatch and rise mid beat before midday. Caught on Para Adams, brown klink and black klinks.

12 Trout

Fantastic beat with lots of different features, good riffles and long dry flats. Tough going in the morning but good show of risers late into the evening around 7pm. Had several takes on various dry flys but fish were very suspicious and spat out the fly as soon as mouthed resulting in no takes. Great day out on the Usk.

Bitterly cold, strong wind all day, making for challenging fly fishing. After heavy overnight rain, the river rose six inches during the afternoon. Despite conditions, fish were rising freely, esp. during the cloudy spells. We caught six fish, best was 1.5lbs with two at 1lb and the rest at .75lbs. Two fish in the 2lbs plus category came unbuttoned, and all on a dry Adams. There was a wide variety of fly about, of all sizes and shapes, but you had to be quick to get a good look at any before they were systematically removed from the air by squadrons of sand martins.....they really should spare a few for the trout!!

6 Trout

Difficult downstream breeze made presentation of dries and nymphs difficult. Plenty of different fly hatching including a few mayflies. Lots of missed takes without connecting. Also fish shedding hook quickly. I fished from mid day to 8:30pm. However, between 3 and 7 was dead with no movement. Not a lot rising but fish would come up to dry but were suspicious. All fish to hand were smallish the best perhaps 10oz. Lost one much better fish on a nymph. Still on the learning curve!

5 Trout

Wet fly - small trout - returned to water - clear waters, good flow. Cold NW wind.

2 Trout

Strong chill wind, and consequently sparse show of fly. In the pool tails, we had some response from a dry Adams, otherwise fish were taken by Czech nymph method. Best fish was 1.25lbs, others were between one pound and a half pound. All fish released. A larger fish was lost.

7 Trout

9 trout to 1 1/2 lb , with a number lost. Most activity before lunch, largely to gold head ptn but a couple on dry. Slowed down pm. No significant hatch of fly but left before the evening. A good day's fishing.

9 Trout

I caught one brown trout about eight inches long. The Usk was quite big and coloured but fishable in places.

1 Trout