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It’s a year since we fished this beat and a lot of the swims had changed with trees and bushes removed . Conditions very difficult - river high and baits struggling to hold in the current Tried all baits and eventually only got 2 chub on luncheon meat .

2 Chub

Nice day on a dropping river. Height 1.0 on the chainbridge gauge, water clear enough. Beat very fishable/ wadeable at this height. 2 Finnock around 1lb which surprised me as I did not know the Usk was well known for sea trout, lost another and additional takes. Fun fishing. Both had sea lice.

2 Sea Trout

Both anglers only fished half a day. Blanked and not even a knock. Beautiful setting and wildlife but tricky to find the swims and get the car parked anywhere near them given it is heavily wooded and you can't block the track as it is used by others.
There are a few side verges to park up but not many. When we arrived at 8am, others (syndicate members) had taken the decent, deeper swims and parking spots, leaving us scratching around for where to fish. Anyone fishing this beat for the first time should expect to spend quite a chunk of time covering the beat and working out where to fish. Very pretty though.

Conditions quite good,river a little high and fishing difficult.Barbel did not show but chub hungry as usual,the other were dace,plus 1 nice brown trout.

1 Trout, 12 Chub, 6 Other

Used to be very good fishing here now not so much i fished 10 hours there today and all I had to show for it was a perch and a small brown trout definitely not worth the money I paid to fish there, last time I was there very similar fishing too, years ago it was great I loved going there it's a shame, there seems to be a lot of Europeans there who were laughing telling me they never pay to fish there which is a concern

5 Chub

2 Browns, 1 Rainbow. All caught on a black and orange spoon.

3 Trout

1 Barbel

Tough day, the conditions weren't great. The River was falling but still high and it was blowing a gale, tried for a few hours but gave up. Good stretch though, plenty of fishable pegs

Very tough conditions as river levels very high, between us we managed 2 barbel and 2 eels. Will be back when the levels are a lot lower!

2 Barbel, 2 Other