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Water dropping in the morning made the fish turn on, 3 on the Nymph in the first hour but nothing after, no real hatch or rise but pleasant as always.

3 Trout

Nymphs.
Cold downstream wind and sunshine through the morning.
Fishing was slow with the olive hatch not really turning the fish on.
Stopped fishing just after midday.

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River extremely high with scary wading. Very few fish rose despite a decent hatch around midday. Managed to winkle out a few trout going subsurface.

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Fish caught on a mixture of nymphs and dry fly. Short hatch around 1pm but didn't last long. Best fish 2 1/4lbs

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Beautiful beat, but no fish rising! River low, weather hot. Perfect instructions and pool details. A pleasure to read.
Thank you for caring for this lovely stretch of the Usk.

According to my records, I fished the lower half of this beat in early 2008; today I fished the upper half, so it has taken me just over 13 years to complete this beat! What the hell was I thinking - this is a lovely bit of the Usk and I see from my notes I had a great time on the last trip too. It has a wonderful mixture of deep pools, riffles, runs and glides - something for everyone (some of the deep gutter pools scream salmon too?). The bedrock in some places is indeed treacherous - like ice, would definitely repeat the advice for felt soles and studs. I was more Torvill & Dean than Lefty Kreh out there (at one point I think I managed a triple salco, was thankful to land it but doubt I would have scored more than a 3! XD). The fishing was a bit slow today, not much rising and when they did it was nearly always a single rise which did not repeat. The one fish that did rise repeatedly was near some tree canopy and there were needle fly around there - after a couple of changes I caught him on a Snipe and Claret spider which made a good imitation. Also some caddis, and very occasional mayfly hatching, but they didn't really get going well - caught the other four on nymphs. All average or small for the Usk (between 8 and 12") - I did manage one bite on a dry (Elk Hair Caddis) which looked much bigger from the rise form, but didn't connect unfortunately. Thanks and I look forward to fishing it again (and it won't be another 13 years)!

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