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Crystal clear water with plenty of flies in the air. Trout not interested in dries yet, only two fish spotted rising so nymphing most of the day with some success. Three trout netted 9-10” and one 15-17” lost after short fight. All fish returned unharmed. Lovely spring day, very interesting beat, definitely I will be back later in the season expecting nothing less than fishing eldorado.

Thanks to WUF, thanks to David fishery owner for a great day out.

1 BT about a pound C&R'd early on via a Deer Hair Emerger and that was it! Couldn't get a sniff on nymphs. Water low and clear with sunny, warm conditions. As K from Brum said, plenty of fly in the air but not much hatching. Lovely fishery but wading dicey in parts.

Never blanked at the USK reservoir two times in succession but did it today. I wasn't the only one though, none of the other anglers were catching anything either and all legal methods were being employed. I am beginning to think this water fishes better late in the season, but I will try again shortly.

Very bright and warm conditions.

I could catch 1 Grayling and 3 trouts as follows. Grayling - 42cm with Sedge. Brown trout - 26cm, 20cm and 18 cm all with Sedge. Very low water, and difficult to catch.

Water low and clear, bright sun all day. Two small brown trout, one fell off at the bank! Both on the holy grail. There were a few fish rising, but no takes from the top. I'm not the greatest fly caster and found the overgrown conditions difficult so did not really cover the rising fish, a better caster would have caught more I'm sure. A really nice beat that could be much improved by some major bank work.

No fly no rise. One trout 6". Saw brook lamperns spawning.

Fished from 2 to 6pm. A few grannom about and occasional olives. A few trout rising but only managed 2 small ones, both to emerging olive.

Lured by rising fish and not having fished for trout for years, I took 50 minutes off to have a cast in the Ferry landing 8 trout to 1lb and 4 nice grayling to a small dry sedge.....back to work again.

Many thanks for organising access to this famous beat. Shared the fishings with another WUF rod and Ghillie was very helpful and kind to show us around. Several good sized Salmon seen but maddeningly could not get them to take in the bright hot conditions. Got a nice sun tan on my forearm though. Thanks for all your hard work as usual.

Saturday saw the first of the trout courses for the year, we had three attendees. During the day we covered traditional wet fly techniques and Czech nymphing.

All in all nine fish were caught with everyone catching something. The best fish was a beautifully conditioned but out of season Grayling that came out of a very fast shallow run during demonstration of Czech nymphing.

The odd fish could be seen moving through out the day and although I saw non hatching, plenty of Grannom were on the water