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Beautiful spring day - a cloudy start cleared to blue sky and intermittent cloud, a soft gentle breeze and the temperature rose to about 17/18 degrees by mid afternoon. Fished the beat above the bridge first. While there was a gentle mixed hatch - grannoms, olives and something very small - there wasn't much surface action. This briefly changed between about 12.30 and 2.00 pm. But the rises were intermittent and not sustained. I had a good trout on in the Salmon falls streamy water on a team of spiders - maybe 1-1.5 lbs - but it threw the barbless hook after 15 seconds. A few other suicidal parr/small trout did come to hand but nothing substantial. Headed down to the bottom of the lower beat after lunch. Not a lot happening there, but it was beautiful and good for the soul to search the streamy water with the hope of a fish. Nice water but I got the feeling that either the fish haven't really woken up yet, or the river is too low or more likely my limited skills were not up to the challenge. A day on the river is rarely a wasted day though and it was lovely to be back on the Usk.

Tough day

1 Trout

Intense March Brown hatch from about 12pm lasted about 40 minutes and resulted in 6 fish between us on spiders. Only one fish was below 13" and two were at least 16". There was no action for the rest of the afternoon.

6 Trout

6 Trout

Fished hard all day, a few fish seen and one fish was ‘bumped off’ . Various flies tried all day. Alas was not to be but beautiful water to spend the day on.

Lovely sunny autumnal day. All fish taken on emergers. Biggest about 1.5lb.

5 Trout

6 inch brownie in GULLY. Plenty of fish rising on both sides of the bridge but too clever for me. Great day.

1 Trout

One 12” trout on ptn midday. Beautiful estate.will return

1 Trout

4 Trout