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Took four early on nymphs then odd sporadic rises showed fish had changed depth so changed to spiders and managed another three and in afternoon more regular rises prompted change to dries and took another three after some trial and error on small cdc shuttlecock emergers. Fantastic days fishing.

10 Trout

First warm, calm day in weeks! River has really benefitted from the recent rain. Running clear and still dropping slightly over the course of the day. All the algae has been flushed away.

PTN in the morning but a sporadic hatch from around 14:00 caused switch to dry fly. Hatch a mixture of olives, black gnats and pale wateries. First mayfly of the year (for me at least) emerged - to be grabbed by a wagtail. Four nice trout from the bottom of the beat on a #14 Dark Olive.

Note new sheep fencing is being installed along the bank. Access to the top flats is over the style or a long wade upstream. May get easier as levels drop futrher

4 Trout

High water but dropped a fair bit throughout the day. Visiting anglers managed to catch 2 trout, one on spiders and the other on the dry when a few fish we seen rising. Lovely place to spend a day.

2 Trout

Recent rains made for a high and very coloured river, but I managed to tempt a few fish with a nymph including one lovely fish of 2lbs.

4 Trout

Booked both Dinas and Abercynrig beats. Water high and slightly coloured but fished dries only and had great sport on olives. Kamikazi otter ran along bank over our heads then ran down between us and dived in full length.

20 Trout

River was well up after recent rain up but running clear. Tough going at first but then 14.00 a big hatch brought everything to life. Loads of takes / hook ups and 5 to the net. Best fish was well over 2lb and the fight it gave was crazy in the fast flow. By 16.00, following a few downpours, the river turned chocolate brown. It was time to head home. Overall very enjoyable first ever trip to the Usk!

5 Trout

Not able to fish today, river too high.

I did walk the length of beat, and I suspect one run off has been done it will fish well. Weekend could be good if no more rain. Pity but will try again.

2 decent 2lb trout on speculative dry fly before 11

2 Trout

First day of the season for me, great to be out on such a lovely beat. Water quite high but managed to winkle out 7, a couple to 17-18”, mostly on the dry. I will be back, soon!

7 Trout

Falling river , clear water . Little fly life to bring the fish up save for the odd pulse of olives , which the trout were quickly on to . Lovely day out

3 Trout