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Water very low and clear as Gin. We all needed to get new knees if we were going to be successful as crouching and kneeling is a young mans game. Fish beat us.

6 small wbt to gold head nymph.Hooked and missed as many. Wading a challenge -rocky and slippery underfoot and I eventually took a tumble. Very few fish rising but a great day on a beautiful beat.

6 Trout

2 Trout

Weather was better than expected a little rain but not much, cloudy with some sunshine and a very light breeze. Insect life was good, with hatches of Mayfly and Yellow Sally's. However black flies were the order of the day, and fish were caught on a black klinkhammer, black spiders and hare's ear.

9 Trout

Trout all small and returned.

3 Trout

4 Trout

8 Trout

Our planned day's fishing was reduced to 1.5 hours as car and family problems conspired to keep us from the water, which was a great shame. In spite the river carrying some colour from overnight rain I did manage to catch a trout of 1 1/4 lb and a small Grayling on a dry parachute Adams. Would love to see what the rest of the beat looks like!

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Cold with chilly breeze. River fairly low; sporadic rises, with no pattern or repeat rises; so hard to evaluate fly, tactics etc. Most successful tactic was size 16/18 black wet fly, fished just below the surface. Missed a few takes, lost a couple and managed to bring 2x BT to net, 12"-14". (Same tactic, fishing with MN, same beat 3 days later, produce 7 fish).Czech & French nymphing not my thing but would like to think that these techniques would have been productive as plenty of fish in the beat and the whole beat was accessible. However, the majority of the rises were in slow moving, shallow water. Usually find the Usk very productive in the last daylight hour but left early, due to low air temperature and lack of belief that there would be an improvement in surface activity.

2 Trout

Easy to find, good parking but access to the river is a struggle through the undergrowth! 5 wbt caught and returned, all taken on nymphs. All around the 12" to 14" range, that's what the Usk does best. Prolific mixed hatch mid-afternoon, fish rising all over the lower part of the beat, we offered them everything in the fly box, but naturals quite rightly won the day.

5 Trout