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NJ & JJ Cwmbran
First time back to Craig-Llyn for a long while, struggled all morning picking up one small brown plus a few takes. Around lunchtime we bumped into a gentleman and his wife who promptly set about giving us a lesson in the art of river fishing. What followed for us was incredible. With a change of setup and the correct flies we were catching fish almost every other cast. Many many thanks to Shaun for his time and expert advise. In an hour after lunch we caught eleven grayling, one of which measured 21inches (photo to follow) great day be back soon.
11 Grayling
1 small brown.

1 Trout

3 Trout

ptn just up from the bridge pool

1 Trout

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Good fishing with nymphs in the morning, but suddenly completely cut off during the afternoon until early evening when mostly grayling start raising in the pocket water left. Missed a lot, but still good fishing. On a dry got also this healthy and coloured WBT, more than a pound in weight

7 Trout, 15 Grayling

Difficulty using the parking at the sawmill on the southern end of the fishery.
There were already 2 vehicles parked and the owner/operator of the sawmill was very unhappy about a third vehicle.
So parked at northern spot instead, no problem for me.

River low. Nil caught

This was my first time fishing on the Usk for Trout and what a terrific beat it is! Water levels meant that you could really get into the river and at the fish. This river is teeming with life. Our first trout was caught on a black nymph and then the second two on a green Klinkhammer pattern. Clearly the fish were feeding just under the surface of the water. Our best trout was a 1.5lb beauty, caught at the bottom of the beat in the tail of the first pool. A glorious day in a glorius setting.

3 Trout

First time on this beat this season , glad to be back , as you'd expect the river was extremely low after this dry summer we're having , so was expecting a tough day .
Was very happy to catch what I did , lost a couple to ! Fished from 3pm to 9:30pm , great day , lots of sunshine , wildlife and a few fish in the net .

4 Barbel

Fished very well considering the water level is very low.

10 Trout