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First time fishing this beat.

Arrived 0930 parked at lower end and fish were rising! I think to remnants of yesterdays hatch. I tried various patterns of match brown/ldo imitations but very fussy and died off soon. 2 further periods of surface activity to MB hatches lasting ~15 mins between 11 and 1. I had one fish above the road bridge that broke me off. After this very sporadic single rises but nothing much. Couldn’t tempt any on dries. Left at 3pm.

As expected lots of dog walkers throwing in sticks and kids throwing rocks etc.

1 Trout

5 Trout

1 Trout

Dry fly in a short hatch of March browns. Lost a big one too

4 Trout

First visit to this beat and we had it to ourselves. Great mix of glides and riffles. Would definitely return. Perfect spring trouting conditions, even had an upstream breeze. Temp 13-14degs. A few March browns and LDOs about but nothing that could be described as a hatch. We managed a fish each on emerger patterns. My fishing partner also had a brace on nymphs. A very nice way to kick the season off.

4 Trout

Extremely quiet, clear and low water.

4 Trout

A small hatch at 11 am made a few fish rise which then saw me loose three in a row before the net. Lucky I managed to land 4 nice trout in between loosing another couple. They fight hard here for their size and seem very good at throwing the hooks. All were between 10-13 inch and caught on the dry. I had my best luck targeting the slack water alongside the faster sections, also the shallow riffles were holding fish.

4 Trout

First visit to The Usk and managed to rise 5 and land 3 brownies . All on dries

3 Trout