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This was a trip to take my daughter fishing, we like this beat as it has very good bank access and I can usually find the fish quite quickly. Had not been on the beat an hour when I took a 10lb cock salmon on a green highlander, expertly netted by my daughter. She has watched me throw a line few times this summer without sucess so I was over the moon to be able to share this moment with her. Then we turned to the barbel, my daughter landing a nice fish on her own with me at the net this time, there was even someone on hand to photograph us with her fish. We ended up with half a dozen and could have kept going; fishing does not come much better than this!

I managed an undernourished Grilse of about 3lbs which should have weighed at least 4lb and not very fresh, but very welcome nontheless in avoiding being 'skunked' yet again on the Usk. I was wading opposite the huge dead floating tree/log in the Rock pool (or Chine?) when the fish took a size 10 double Usk grub variant fished with a floating line. The fish went back fine.
My pal Bob also had a take when he fished the Rock pool later in the day, alas it did not take hold properly and thrashed on the surface before getting off. Bob thought it a similar sized grilse to mine or possibly a seatrout.
We fished 'gentleman' hours from about 11am to 4pm as we'd had a long day fishing Llandegfedd reservoir the day before and had a long drive home to Berks/Hants. We stayed at the Kings Head in Usk which was excellent in all respects and with very reasonable prices - highly recommended!
It was a good day for fly fishing - clear water and mostly cloudy. We didn't see any fish (other than trout) show.
I don't think the beat has nearly enough fishing for 3 salmon fly fishermen. Fortunately there were only two of us!

As normal a delightful day. Good acccomadation at the George in St Briavels - superb breakfast.
Sadly no fish taken. Hugh moved a fish which did not come again. We saw say half a dozen fish through the day some looking fresh. Will return next season.

A good day - 8 grayling between the two rods including two cracking fish at 18". Most fish came to nymphs with a couple on an LT klink. Several parr and a couple of v. small trout were also encountered on a very low and clear river. Many thanks WUF.

Nil return but great surroundings.

Although told to expect other anglers it was disappointing to find 3 other anglers on our booked beat, they were also pretty upset to see us thinking they had booked the beat exclusively through the farmer. Another disapponiting day with only 1 good chubb caught.

Nil return - Had a couple of pulls but nothing caught.

Fished the croys at the top end of the beat, fished all day without a bite between us. Another angler fishing also failed to catch and left early. River was at a reasonable level though very clear which did not help, perhaps we should have moved about to see if we could locate them. Stayed until dusk very dissapointing but a loveley place. Decided to fish somewere else the following day instead.

A generally slow day with the river low and relativley clear. A slow stream of fish coming to halibut pellet, throughout the day a total of 9 Barbel taken between 2 rods.
All in all a great day out, thank you.

River low and clear. One small grayling and two even smaller trout.