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Nice grayling on my first cast, then quite hard thereafter, with a few trout caught on spiders, but a few more trout came to hand fishing a steamer on a sink tip.

7 Trout, 2 Grayling

First time on this lovely little beat. Fished from the bridge up to the pipes. One small trout and a few salmon parr. Other than that nothing else seen. Water was very low and it was a (rare) hot, bright day. Challenging but absorbing fishing. I’m looking forward to another visit in better conditions.
Well worth the 6 minute drive from home!

1 Trout

To anyone who hasn't finished this beat before 17 chub would seem a good result. However having enjoyed the incredible chub fishing HL3 normally provides I'm a little concerned for the state of the river.

17 Chub

Great day today ,water had dropped from 0.112 on 13/9 /24 to 0.092 today 17/9/24 making the river a lot easier to get around. I still fell in twice!! i
Started at top of the beat very little rising so used spiders and nymph on the point .Two were caught on red spiders and rest on a heavy nymph in the tail end of ripples mainly in the deeper water all good fighting fish 12" plus apart from one 8" I intended to finish at the pool by the bridge as there were fishing rising in this pool when i came on 13th when i got there a father a two young lads were there swimming seemed to be having great fun . I'd had my fun for the day and was wet and cold so decided to make my way back to Malvern i finished around 4pm Another memorable day on the Usk. Thank you fishing passport

6 Trout

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Bright sunshine, downstream breeze, Salmon spotted jumping between Tail of the Tail and Below Tail. 5 very nice browns caught.

5 Trout

4 Barbel, 8 Chub

We caught 5 Barbel to 8lb 11oz & 12 Chub.

5 Barbel, 12 Chub

3 Barbel, 5 Chub

Didn’t arrive till lunch time but despite the nice weather it didn’t look liked we’d missed much in terms of fishing. The water was pushing through at a fair speed (we hadn’t checked the gauge the night before) and finding the fish was not easy. The most productive place was in front of the hut where the water was calmer. Managed to get 7 between us by the end of the day. As with recent trips the fly life increased in the evening but stopped again pretty quickly when the temperature dropped.

We will be off the Towy tomorrow abut looking at the weather for next week getting another trip in before the season finishes might be a struggle. Even if we do it’ll be dads turn to pay so last report for me for the season. Thanks to the WUF and land owners for making it possible to fish and enjoy the countryside. Already counting the days till March….

4 Trout, 3 Grayling