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No salmon seen or caught all day. Probably the nicest Usk beat I have yet fished. I worked my way down the bottom half firstly and managed one trout (released), which took an orange Ally's. The owner had mentioned some salmon being in the Top Pool recently and I intended to fish there in the evening. A pair of otters had arrived before me and were digging for worms and splashing around right over the salmon lies so I called it a day at 8pm.

1 Brown Trout on dry fly - returned. Excellent fishing beat. Great day with instructor Chris Price, invaluable teaching and guidance.
Your website and booking system are excellent and very easy to use.
Accommdation recommendation was also excellent.

I had watched the forecast on Friday with some trepidation "month's rain in a day" and drove up from London in steady rain
However, on the river at 7.30 am to find it up, coloured but definitely fishable, and not the torrent of milky-red tea I'd feared. It steadily dropped and fined-up throughout the day.
Fished for salmon in the morning, trout in the afternoon. No salmon seen or touched (maybe one knock?. Better luck trouting, 6 caught and safely returned including a magnificent 16" fish from just below the A40 bridge.
The others were in the 1/2 - 3/4 lb range.
Very little fly-life all day. Packed up just before 8pm. In retrospect, should have fished on as I suspect there would have been good fishing around 9.
Only downside was ripped waders on barbed wire on the bank. There is a lot of ex-fencing hidden in the grass on the river bank, especially down by the crossing point

A wonderful long beat with some stunning pools, but felt it was getting a little low in most pools (1ft on the brecon guage) to fish well for Salmon. Caught lots of small trout but no sign of a Salmon. Took advantage of the evening ticket scheme and moved to Glan-y-Cafn for the evening. A beautiful place to fish and thank you.

Managed 3 trout between us, all on nymphs and all safely returned. Water high and a strong flow, but we struck lucky with the weather throughout the day - only one major downpour around midday.

2 x BT - 12 and 14 inch both on dry Adams Klinkhammer.
Water pushing through faster than I expected and strong down stream wind didn't help.

First outing on the Usk, thanks wuf for the recomendations. Worked hard all day & struggled to catch the 3 fish to 8 ins by 1800hrs. but then after a tip off from the wuf, evening rises had been good recently. I decided to stay on, good move finshed at 21.45 with 13 to 16ins, the last ten all being a good size & taken off the top on a h/e emergers.
good fishing, great surroundings, fantastic advice, thanks

The second of my three outings on the usk. Having never fished the beat before I started nymphing the streamy sections in the absence of any rising fish and was fairly quickly into a couple of fish. Was quite hard going though until i moved up to the top pool around lunchtime where there were some fish rising. caught a couple on a cdc dun and a few more on a nymph under a dry. Another good day although failed to connect with some off the bruisers that ive heard inhabit this stretch. Cheers to Paul for the use of his phone to keep me from getting into trouble with the missus! Sounds like he had the right idea staying on late!

11 trout, 9 on dry olive, 2 on copper john nymph. River high but no rain during day and level dropped 2in during the day. Reasonably clear. fish rising consistently from midday to 4pm then fell off as a low came in.

Lovely river and great place to fish. Rainy, overcast day with only a few fish rising. Two WBT caught (6-8 inches) with gold head PTNs in the rift right of entry point. Would definitely come back!