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2’1 on the gauge this morning. River dropping fast and clearing nicely. Only spent 4 hours on the water today, covering all main pools with heavy tubes. No sign of an early runner though.

2 Trout

No fish hooked or caught. Water still high and better suited to Salmon fishing than Trout. Fished just below the town bridge and then walked down river to the shingle island but found the floods had washed the bank and fence away making it impossible to fish the right bank in this area. There is now a 10ft shear cliff edge with the barbed wire fence in the river and no way of getting down to the water.

A beautiful day greeted me, the river had a good flow and was crystal clear. Only the odd fly hatched certainly not enough to get the fish looking up. Unfortunately they didn’t appear to be looking down either.
Tried hard to no avail, nil return.
I’ll be back!!

Beautiful March day, warm and sunny after a very wet number of weeks. First trip to the Usk.
Four trout hooked on tight line nymphs but only three landed, best 14".
The one and only fish I found rising fell to a retirer sedge. Muted hatch of March browns and BWO.

4 Trout

1 Barbel, 7 Chub

walked the beat o look for changes, had a couple of casts, no good

River was high and pushing through fast. Still some visibility, but most of the river was inaccessible- even with chest waders - not safe to wade upstream as normal.
Did manage 2 trout on the euro rod whilst searching for grayling.

This stretch is great if you can wade. Those without waders or in conditions like today perhaps choose somewhere else. Bank access is poor and badly maintained

2 Trout

Fished down the bottom for day 2, 4 chub came out of the bottom pool on boilie and meat, all 3 to 4lbs, tried 4 other swims where ropes helped access, no luck.
Beautiful stretch, many thanks

4 Chub

A reasonable day with two decent Barbel coming our way, both on pellet.

2 Barbel

I walked the beat in as much as that was possible and decided not to fish. I was disappointed to find that access was pretty awful due to debris and fallen vegetation from the winter floods not having been cleared and the water was too high and fast for productive fishing, especially as it is a left bank fishery with much of the depth being on our side of the river. Frankly it didn’t feel safe and I fished the Usk a lot so it take a lot to put me off . I’m sure that this is a lovely beat in late spring and summer but one to avoid at this time of year and with this much water about. I cut my losses and went to a different beat.