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My 1st trip to the Usk yesterday, Not much fly-life, a few pale wateries, and just the odd rise. Managed 3 takes on a iron-blue dun, missed the lot. Watched a salmon around 15lb making its way up the middle of the river. Other than a downstream wind, conditions and the river looked good.

Unfortunately there was a camping party on the other side of the river towards the downstream end of the beat. They were fooling around in the river and making a lot of noise.
I gave up after an hour.

Tough going but fun!

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Old Clytha is a short beat but works for me. Often only have a few hours to fish therefore a few more beats like this would be great, (What happened to Dan y Warren?). Lovely beat, nice day, although a bit cold. Water low and clear. Nothing for the first hour then a small hatch but not interested in my offering. Tried nymph and had a WBT at the top of the best, about 12inch, in good condition, returned. Enjoyed the day.

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A nice couple of hours without seeing a fish. Plenty of fly life and a lovely sunny day. After lockdown was magic to be back on the water. Will try the beat again soon and see if I can do better.

Great to be out on a lovely early spring day. A couple to nymphs, but there was a 10-15 minute window at about 3pm when the trout switched on to March Browns and I had 3 takes of a big DHE style fly in 10mins, two stuck - best probably 15". A few minutes later - all over. Well worth the couple of miles walk!

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Blanked, but nice to get out.

Lovely stretch of water, although levels were pretty low. Water very clear and weather was sunny and hot which I think resulted in seeing little activity on the water - i.e. no rises at all.
Small trout caught at the lower end of the beat in faster moving water, olive wet fly pattern.
Lovely location for a few hours fishing.

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