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1 Trout

Beautiful day. Tough fishing though on a very overgrown beat with low water and bright sunshine. Two trout of c. 1lb.

2 Trout

Went along at midday to see if there was any surface activity. Nothing seen and little fly activity/hatches. Beautiful sunny day but probably still too cold.

Lovely day - but no movement around the normal areas by the boats and dam. Reservoir higher than I've seen it for a long time. Walked around passed the water tower and for about 40 minutes to the very far end. Hooked 2 landed 1 nice sized rainbow trout. returned to the dam end for lunch and still no movement and fished for an hour with no succes. walked back to the very far end at 13:30 and hooked and landed another 3 trout before 17:00. 2 caught on "Cats Whiskers" and 2 on Montance nymphs. Lovely days fishing, but lots of walking.

4 Trout

All fish on nymphs. Very poor hatch and only sporadic rises

4 Trout

2Trout caught by the 2 fishermen
Worm was used for bait
Weather and water very good

4 Trout

Sunny but still a bit cold. bit of a slow start tried spinning but no takes both of us fished the bottom with a popped up worm Then success 9 decent rainbows between us fished the A470 side as normal

9 Trout

Feels like the new season has been a long time coming with what we have all gone through over the last 12 months. To be back out on the river amongst the early celandines and wood anenomes was certainly good for the soul….
It was a cold day – better when the sun emerged from behind the clouds but mostly it didn’t! However when it did about 1pm there was an absolute blizzard march brown hatch – not seen one of that intensity before. The fish went potty but by the time the fly was changed it was all over. Never mind, there was a trickle of olives – large dark and uprights – to make the fish look up occasionally. We brought two to hand – clonkers of 18 and 20 inches, and two more were lost to long distance catch and release. Grey parachute did the trick.
So a typical early season Usk day. There is some great water on this beat. Also a mink in residence who took a fish as big as he was! If anyone locally wants to know where the den is please contact me via the office – an invasive species.

2 Trout

1 Trout

2 Trout