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River very low. Bright and sunny. Lost a couple but nothing landed.

Fantastic beat, plenty of risers and fish jumping everywhere. 1 trout of 1.5lb caught.

1 Trout

Muggy and overcast with breeze picking up over course of the day. River really needs freshening up with some meaningful rainfall. Occasional olive hatching through the day but no interest from any fish. One small BT on PTN from the fast water at the top of the beat. Some fish moving from around 15:30. Had one lovely WBT of around 16” on a dry olive. Tiny rises can be deceptive!

2 Trout

1 Trout

All fish taken on dries - trickle hatch of olives during the day.

10 Trout

A trickle of March Browns when the sun came out and it warmed up. This brought on occasional rises.3 Browns (0.75, 1.0, 1.5lb) all to March Brown dry imitations during these fleeting periods of activity..

3 Trout

Enjoyable day despite the trout keeping their heads down other than for a frantic 45 minutes starting about 13.30 pm when there was suddenly a lot of surface action at the top end of the beat with multiple missed takes to a dry and decent fish hooked and played but lost and another landed.

1 Trout

19" brown trout taken on size 16 nymph in deep water

1 Trout

I arrived at 11.30 to find an angler fishing from the middle of the river below where the Cynrig stream enters the Usk. This confluence denoting the top limit of the Abercynrig and bottom of the Dinas beat on the true right bank. Having pointed this out politely he then waded back to the Abercynric beat bank right through the productive run below the Cynrig.

I later returned to find his mate in the same position. Again I pointed out the boundary between the beats. In response the chap said, quite correctly, that the boundary on the true left bank was below the Cynrig. The fact of the matter is that it is impossible to access this stretch from the true left bank due to the bankside growth thus it requires access from the top of the Abercymrig stretch on the true right.

Not wishing to spoil my day or indeed anyone elses with an argument I left it at that.

The reason for mentioning this is that fishing in this manner completely ruins the frequently productive top stretch of the beat for those fishing Abercynrig. It would be helpful for Wye Usk to remove the bottom stretch of Dinas below the Cynrig on the map to avoid potential confusion or conflict given that it can not be accessed from the true left bank anyway.

But it did not spoil my day.

On to the fishing. Much colder today with temps only 7C mid morning, cloudy and a much stronger blustery wind which settled mainly upstreamish happily. Very little hatching although the occasional March Brown drifted down around 1 pm. Birds were hawking from time to time and a few slashing rises here and there indicated that something must have been going on albeit sporadically and lightly. Set about the seams and riffles with and Olive Comparadun and by end of play at circa 16.00 had netted 6 trout. 4 were stunning condition fish around 2 – 2.5 lbs and the other 2 wee chaps of about 12 oz and 8 oz.

Yet another super day on the river.

6 Trout

See report for Dinas same day. Despite using same techniques which caught fish on Dinas, we blanked on Abercynrig.