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Very enjoyable evening on the Chainbridge beat, two small wild browns to the dry for my efforts to a pattern I tied to use on the Taff and its tributaries not too dissimilar to an Adams. Both safely released.
A first outing for me on the Usk... I spent a lot of time during my session observing the fish as I do at any venue and noticed that there were a lot of juvenile chub present. I initially thought they were dace but managed to get a closer look after hooking a few of them on the dry. There seemed to be plenty of grilse throwing themselves around and very surprisingly a shoal of mullet working their way along the margins of the pool at the top of the boundary. I didn't see any sizable browns upstream of the bridge however I did see a few in the two lower pools but they were too difficult to cover as I couldn't wade there due to the deep water.
A LOVELY VENUE FOR THOSE PREPARED TO PUT IN A LITTLE EFFORT. WILL RETURN SOON!

2 Trout, 1 Other

Water .75 and some silt preventing clarity in more than 3ft so decided to spin. No activity till 5pm then fished over a fresh 6lb fish which moved upstream of me at a rate of knots and out of our beat.
Saw and landed one of few feeding trout on dry white wulff at around same time. Fish of about 6oz returned.
Saw, hooked and landed a 4lb grilse at the rock at around 8pm on copper and black FC. Spinner came out in net so able to return fish without handling. Fish was not fresh run and had began to show some colour and was a cock fish.
Disappointingly no late rise of trout as temperature dropped sharply and wind picked up. Water still .72m at 10pm

1 Salmon, 1 Trout

River level high and in spate. Fishing for trout with fly. Wading almost impossible. Saw several salmon jumping. Not good trout conditions. No catches.

Spent the day dry fly fishing for trout, unfortunately nothing caught. Saw very few rises and there wasn't much insect activity. Still had a lovely day next to the river.

Nil return. Method fly during the day. Access great bank care recently trimmed. Water clear and low.

Didn't see any rising fish till very late on, and there was no interest in the weighted nymph. One or two rises to klinkhammer.

Nill caught.

Took the family for lunch at the newly reopened Chainbribge Pub, food was good and my son landed his first salmon within 10 minutes of finishing lunch. It was only a 4lb grilse but a very welcome 4th course. This is the 3rd salmon in 2 days in front of the pub and more have been caught above the bridge..There seem to be plenty of fish in the river.

1 Salmon

Water at 650cm, ideal conditions. Fish visibly active in the morning, with one 5lb salmon falling to a Flying C (red and silver lure) before lunch. Water falling slightly p.m. and no further salmon seen.

1 Salmon

River .7 on the gauge and quite peaty, started spinning downstream of the bridge and on his 3rd cast my brother (Jason) connected and landed a 3lb fresh grilse in front of the pub, I had a fresh bar of silver present its self twice right in front of me by the cables but unfortunately wasn't interested in my offerings? We then fished above the bridge and at the upper rocks I had a vicious take on a F.C but unfortunately after a brief standoff and a lot of head shaking salmon won to fight another day! Switched to the fly after lunch as clarity of water had improved and although things felt very fishy no more fish were caught? Another great day on this lovely beat.

1 Salmon