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4 Trout

Difficult day with very cold strong wind blowing down the river. Did see a hatch around 1300, but nothing rising, stuck at it until around four then called it a day and prepared to come back next day and hope wind has reduced!

Jones senior took two trout to a green olive. Both good sizes. The Second fish was the largest at just under 1Ib. Lovely scenic beat, shame about the wind and hail stones!

2 Trout

First trip to the Usk with the background of beacon's a magical setting. Shame about the weather hailstorm and snow one minute then the sun came out for half an hour and a olive hatch with brought on the fish.caught a lovely little brown that fought every inch to the net.looking forward to my return.

1 Trout

Very good mornings fishing apart from the snow, all fish caught by 11.30.

12 Trout

Great afternoon's fishing with plenty of action. A few olives hatching but no real rises. Most of the fish were caught on small copper coloured tungsten bead nymph.
One point to be aware of is that there is a large tree down, which dams the river, by the second gate from the start of the beat. The only way is to climb over the trunk as there is no way round it.

8 Trout, 1 Grayling

18lb fresh fish, absolute bar of silver for Ed Brown on fly.

1 Salmon

Cold wind with sunny spells, limited fly hatch. Couple of light takes on wet fly, no trout caught. Beautiful stretch of water.

Utterly miserable day! Arrived in sunshine but nearly had my door blown off by the wind as I got out of the car. Decided to walk to the very end of the beat and fish my way back to the car, but by the time I was as far from the car as I could be I was caught in a snow, hail and sleet storm with biting cold wind which lasted all morning. Got back to the car soaking wet and freezing cold but at least the sun had come out again. I got dry and warm and headed back to the river where there was as sporadic half-hearted hatch of upwings just enough to rise the odd trout or two in the fast riffley stretch, I managed two nice sized fish on a small dry fly but double hauling into a gale force downstream wind isn't much fun so called it a day. Beautiful, well maintained stretch, will be back before too long.

2 Trout

Unseasonably cold with cold downstream wind and hail and rain squalls. WT 8.5C. AT from 6 -10C. Cloudy with some sunny intervals later. Good hatches, mainly olives starting around 12.30pm and continuing intermittently until around 3.30pm. Caught 3 trout, best 1lb 6oz on dry olive, at about 1.30pm, during an intense hatch. Generally, the better fish were 'keeping their heads down', probably as a result of the chill, and most rising fish seemed small. It was encouraging to see the insect life and the numbers of small fish.

3 Trout