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Was nice to give the Kington beat a bash today , water looked at a lovely height when I tackled up at ten , initially rigged up with a size eighteen tungsten flashback ptn. No obvious rises at the start of the beat , and the first pool after creeping under the bridge produced nothing , which is unusual , as I've had a brownie out of there on the last few visits . . . . .

The first brownie only stayed on for a while , felt like a decent fish , the next did stay , quickly admired then released . The colours of the Arrow trout are always a delight !!!!

Around elevenish some splashy rises started to show , no obvious fly life that I could see they were after , and only a few mayflies showing sporadically , so opted for an eighteen parachute Adams , seemed to do the trick , and had some great fun , only small fish at the heads of pools hitting the dry fly !!!

One decent brownie of about ten inches , but the others were all between six and eight inches , cracking condition , and tubby after feeding well probably on a mix of upwings and caddies. The bed of the river is alive with caddis , and insect life is varied around the river , saw stone flies , few mays and a variety of other upwings . . . . .

Was a nice four hours sport , five Caught and released and several long and short range releases !!!!, Shall give one of the other Arrow beats a crack in a few days , great fun as always . . . . . . . .

5 Trout

First day out for a year. Rusty fishing, rusty water, clever fish. No catches.

Very enjoyable evenings fishing, 4 WBT to an Adams dry and one to a hares ear. Lots of fly life but nothing rising????

5 Trout

There is a place on this beat that always has a fish or two rising no matter what the conditions and it was a good job today. I took one on the way up the beat and another on my way back a few hours later, both took a small dry. I did have other chances missing half a dozen rises but I suspect they were only small fish.
This really is a beautiful stretch of water and I found myself standing in the warm sunshine looking up river willing there to be a fish or two rising but it just didn’t happen, very difficult on the dry fly with a noticeable lack of emerging insects on the water. There were a few spinners about though, some of which were bright red.

2 Trout

Water very coloured, and only an extreme optimist would fish it expecting to catch a salmon. Being such a person, I fished it anyway. Salmon must be short sighted, as I caught no less than 10 shad. 3 salmon seen, but the rest must have been hiding. Sad to see this lovely river run chocolate brown due to farm runoff. Soil health obviously not a priority in this catchment area. Thank you Mick for you wise advice, always heeded!

10 Other

Had several rises to dry fly but blanked. I'm a novice river angler, but determined to try the Usk again as it is a stunning location.

Water low but coloured. 1 trout 7 inches, 1 out of season grayling 14 inches

1 Trout

Too bright- but lovely afternoon on a delightful stretch of river with stunning Brecon peaks in the distance. No sign of activity except for a few v small fish. We only managed to fish 2 - 6.30pm. We will try again but fish early morning or evening to dusk.

Ideal conditions during morning little wind and cloud cover.The intention was to use dry fly and hopefully Mayfly. We started with a rusty Klink and a grey duster and both caught fish pretty quick Plenty mayfly hatching during the day but saw very few fish rise to them.
Although we tried the mayfly it did not tempt any fish but it was a very pleasant day. We had 6 trout between us weighing upto 1lb All in good condition.

6 Trout