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River was a bit low. Tried hard but no fish. Fly fished solely for Salmon but no luck. I like the beat, as does my wife who finds the bank a pleasant reading spot. Wye and Usk Foundation very efficient and helpful.

We saw no salmon. We saw good sized trout, but failed to tempt them. The water level seemed low and the river was very clear. We left at latish tea time after the rain set in.

Arrived at 4pm river 0.52m and very clear. Beautiful evening. Fished from 5pm till dark. A couple of fish showed by fallen tree and a sea trout (approx. 3 lb) leapt out of the water below Chine. No offers and no evening rise.

Fished on the fly from 6am to 1.30pm. No fish. Numerous (or the same one) Salmon showing by the log all day.

Fishing by 6am after a 4.30am start. River 0.68m falling slowly and slight tint - perfect.
Saw a small fish head and tail close to the right bank opposite the pub decking. Thought it was a small grilse. Five minutes later a very lively fresh sewin (seatrout) of 3 1/2lb accepted my size 10 Reverend Mole. Although the hook came out easily it had punctured a gill vessel and was bleeding profusely. At least it made a very tasty supper.
By 8am I was fishing Rock when a fish showed by fallen tree but showed no interest in my offerings. Left it for an hour to have a cast on upper Rock with no sign of action then returned. Conditions still perfect and in lovely dappled sunshine a thick-set 10lb colouring hen fish accepted my Golden Killer. She swam off happily after a 5 minute gentle cradling in the current, hopefully to do her bit for the population.
A quite magical dawn on the Usk. Anticipated even more action later but the river unexpectedly started to colour and rise. Left at 1pm. Should be a lovely day for the rods tomorrow.

1 Salmon, 1 Sea Trout

River 0.52m on gauge clear. Early start, fishing by 7am. Fished fly till lunchtime. A salmon showed on Rock pool and just below Chine. No interest in my offerings. Left early and just missed deluge of rain.

All very quiet again. Very little surface activity at all.
2 decent trout to 10 inches caught on a PTN variant, both returned.

2 Trout

River at 0.65 and falling. Already very clear. No moving fish seen.

Chainbridge WUF webcam showing 1ft, water slight colour, some cloud cover, warm and breezy. Lost 12/14lb cock Salmon at the net in Rock pool, it took size 10 usk grub mid stream 10 yards above first tree after the last casting platform on the right bank. Two others showed in the pool during the battle. Fished on until dark and did not see a fin, except two small trout and some salmon parr. Quite odd, as after a promising start all went very very quite for the following 10 hrs, not even spinning or a sunray shadow produced a response anywhere.
Can't complain as beautiful day and had a classic take followed by a really very violent run as shooting head and running line was submerged and the fish lept out back upstream of me as 10-15m of backing was ripped off before a dogged scrap set in - just amazing, slightly disappointed not "landed".
Many thanks to WUF as ever and owner for access.

2 Trout, 2 Other

Arrived at 6.45am (early start from Wiltshire) River 0.78m nice tint falling slowly. Fished for 7hrs without sign of salmon spinning and fly. Then had (another) impromptu lesson from Tom Hannon, during which a fish showed toward the end of Rock pool. Single spey markedly improved, an hour later a red cock fish of 8lb accepted my Golden Killer (Russian pattern) off the tip of Rock. Kindly netted by Tom and safely returned. My first fly caught Usk salmon. A lovely day (suntan included!).

1 Salmon