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No fish caught.Easy booking and good information supplied.

Stunning stretch and running clear. All muddy water coming into usk from junction pool on this beat. Just one tiddler and not much sign of fish but we were there in the middle of the day so no real surprise.

I fished from 9-11.30am. Personally, I found this beat quite dangerous as the river goes from shallow to very deep in a lot of areas, and the riverbed can by quite slippery. I didn't catch anything nor did I see a fish rise.
The scenery was very good, but i was expecting a much better days fishing. Maybe it was just one of those days?
The flies I tried were CDC 'F' fly, caenis & grey duster.

Caught and released one small brown trout. The fish was caught on a bead head grhe. Nothing else all day.

1 bite to a green nymph but nothing caught.

A very wet evening but fishing good with fish up to 18inches. Most fish about 11inches.

A picture postcard scene when I first made the river after an early breakfast (after a bit of faffing trying to work out which lay-by to park in. Sun streaming through trees, steady hatch, water very clear (all colour had gone overnight.
Hadn't fished this far up the Usk before and it is noticeably smaller than below Brecon. A fair amount of overhanging trees make for careful casting (there were a couple of red flying Cs hanging from the tree branch over the quarry pool, looking like someone had forgotten to take down all the Christmas decorations!)
Landed (and released) half a dozen trout, all to a gold-head PTN, best about 1lb. Packed up at 2pm, hadn't been much fly life post 12, and the weather reverted to current Summer form of cloud with intermittent rain.
A beautiful beat, and I imagine great fishing a little earlier in the year with more daytime activity.
PS - a note on the wading / getting around. While not the trickiest beat on the Usk, one needs to be careful and definitely needs studs. Some deep holes close to bank side. Met the farmer, very pleasant chap, and he understandably wants anglers to keep to the river when moving about. Given some of the banks are very steep, this inevitably involves more wading to get up and down the beat.

On the recommendation of Seth I started 3 days of fishing on the upper Usk in the hope of decent river conditions following the recent heavy rainfall. Good advice Seth! This was a cracking beat. Good variety of water and great fishing. Caught 8 trout to about a pound mainly on nymphs, but one on a dry. Saw one otter and had a great day. cheers WUF, good work.

A wonderful day on this stretch. At first few fish moving in spite of a delayed arrival, but around two a few different species of olive started hatching and fish were showing in a couple of pools - especially below Waterfall pool. My friend missed a couple then with an over-enthusiastic strike broke on a fish. The rise subsided. We had some lunch and then started again and another good rise started probably about five. One lovely trout of around 12" caught on olive pattern.
Many dippers (a pair feeding young near waterfall) and two families of nuthaches. Thought I saw a black redstart (anyone know if that is a possibility around that part of the country?). A lovely day on the river - especially as the predicted rain really didn't come to much.

Due to the very hot weather only fished in the evening. The odd fish moving in the Junction Pool but nothing caught.