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Water had cooled dow a few degrees from my last visit. Started off on dry this was difficult, fish not showing much interest. Switched to nymph and started to connect with a few fish, biggest fish around a pound and a half. Went back on to dry early evening and had a few more, fishing a cdc olive pattern.
Lots of fly life ,loads of caddis, a few yellow may, pretty sure I saw some BWO, lots of spinners, and just the odd mayfly.

8 Trout

Lovely stretch. Water almost gin clear. Fishing quite hard. I saw three rises all day; rose one of them but missed it. Herons preceeded me up the beat. No luck on any dry fly. I caught two fish both on a beaded black ptn by fishing downstream into the tail of a fall. However one of these was one of the biggest fish I have caught on the Usk. When it took my nymph and jumped out of the water it was so big I thought it was a salmon! I had positioned myself on the rocks of the falls and had to make a pretty undignified dash to the water below landing the beauty after a really spirited fight. I released the monster trout for another day.

2 Trout

Tough day fishing with the water being low and clear. Saw several fish moving but managed to spook most of them.

2 Trout

Lost x 2 trout, during the day, so blank. Still, I enjoyed the day. One comment I would have is that of access to some of the named pools on this beat is quite difficult and could be improved by the provision of wooden steps in certain areas.

Excellent conditions. I fished Saturday and Sunday. This is a challenging stretch in terms of wading but massively rewarding. Good fly hatches - Brook Duns, Olive Upwrights, Caddis, Pale Wateries, Yellow Mays. I fished a size 16 CDC Caddis Pattern this worked really well.
The fishing was fantastic and the stamp of fish is incredible. My biggest fish landed was a Hen of at least two and a half pounds. A couple of others were around two and lots were around the pound mark. Lost a cracker at least three pound. All were hard fighting and all returned. Thank you so much for the fantastic fishing you offer.

27 Trout

A few small trouts, and one about 12 inch and another one very nice around 14.5 inch - all with dry fly.

5 Trout

Enjoyed this beat as always. Pretty perfect overhead conditions but despite significant fly hatches there were few rising fish. Despite this, I landed and returned 5 fish under 1lb and lost a few others. All were taken on gold head hares ear fishing New Zealand style.

5 Trout

Frustrating day. No fish caught despite constant rises but to what I had no idea. I tried everything but to no avail. Wading was difficult and with something of a wind blowing it made this one of the least satisfying days this year. No matter, I will be back.

Gorgeous day on the beat. Four fish caught on the dry (para adams) with the largest at two pounds. Then a number caught on the nymph (hares ear). All the fish were caught before 2pm.

7 Trout

Cold gusty downstream wind made things difficult however we still managed 6 trout to 37cm on dries.

6 Trout