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Dry fly.

1 Trout

Weather sunny, river at summer level. Fished mid morning until about 2:00pm. Sporadic hatch and rise when I arrived. Caught two on dry fly. Everything went to sleep after 1:30pm.

2 Trout

Dry fly, bright sunshine.

2 Trout

Nice fish about 12 inches taken at the junction pool,on a pheasant tail nymph

1 Trout

Fished from 8am until 1pm on various nymphs with no success. There were two elderly gentleman fishing the other bank with spinners wasn't aware that was allowed at this time of year.
Lovely beat just didnt see or touch a fish. Hopefully will come back again with more success.

Still quite a cold day with a real edge to the wind which was blowing straight downstream.
Just after 1.00 p.m.there was a hatch of LDO's and I caught 3 during the next twenty minutes - biggest just over a pound. Apart from that brief twenty minutes there was no fly or fish activity.

3 Trout

Aplogies for the late return. The river was low and very clear. A few LDO's appeared around lunchtime and a couple of rises were seen. No fish caught but given the conditions that was pretty much in line with my expectations.

The Usk was in excellent condition, running clear and at a nice level for the tricky wading. Quite overcast and mild. A few Sedges and Olives about but not a sign of a rise anywhere. Set up fishing the duo with a Copper Head Black Nymph on the point in the streamier runs and got into 8-10" fish fairly quickly. Sport dried up and I switched to french leader style in the deeper runs to no avail, losing my best flies on the bottom (hey ho). Altogether a lovely day, best fish 12" bar of Usk gold.

On the downside saw 3 Goosanders halfway up the beat, never a good sign.

A nice bit of water & several nice fish caught between both rods. One small complaint though - this is a four rod beat and on top of our two rods we saw another three anglers out spinning for salmon on the same beat as well?

WUF note - It is very important you phone this information in on the day so we can act on it immediately.

The river gauge was up from its average level and the water was a bit coloured so this made the fishing fairly tough. We caught the odd fish on dries but most fish were taken on a nymph. We caught 11 brown trout in total.