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1 fish seen. Nil caught. Chilly wind.

Guiding 1 x client. 1 fish of 1lb caught and 2 fish lost, all on nymphs.

Just one Brown Trout between the four rods.
Having been washed off from the Wye we gave the upper Usk a try. The river was high but clear with a good hatch of Olives, unfortunatly the fish were unimpressed and showed little interest.
The one fish caught, a 14" brown, fell to a Hares ear F fly which gave a good account of itself in the fast water, at one point I didnt think I would get it to the net. We didnt see this beat at its best with so much water pushing through and would be interested to see it again with less water.

Very fishy beat - has bags of potential. However, on the day of our visit, there was still a lot of water moving after recent heavy rain. Some colour in the water, but not too much of a problem. Regrettably, a brisk cold wind meant little in the way of insect hatches, and we were unable to move a fish with nymph, wet or dry.
In higher flows, the lower couple of hundred yards are somewhat dicey to wade, and once in, getting out can mean retracing steps. Once past this section the banks are lower, and a the river is a wonderful mix of pools, glides and rockier sections. Would definitely visit again given better conditions.

Lovely day on a new beat to me - plenty of fish up to a pound and a quarter or so but some interesting wading :)
Thanks WUF!!!!

3 wild BT caught - 2 on an emerging green olive and another on a nymph.

1 x trout 10 inches, on a Bastard Adams. Like most of the upper Usk above Brecon, a very beautiful beat running over slabs of broken sandstone and this one with four large pools. This part of the river occasionally produces a specimen fish - see FW's report from early this season. However, I have to admit that I struggled on this day. Nothing seen rising all morning. In the shallows, I did see a couple of small sick trout affected by fungus. Eventually, a few large dark olives showed up and I came across just two rising fish, one of which I put down, and one of which took pity on me and accepted the fly.

Raining hard, river rising and brown. Caught 2 small brownies on wet fly in 2 casts, then nothing else all day.

A blank for both of us. Very low water no fish sighted at all. Lovely beat though.

Not a sausage. Water very low, very warm and sunny. No hatches worth mentioning and no fish rising. Both of us tried dries, duo, nymphs - all day without avail. Farmer mentioned chaps on previous day had also blanked.