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Fished from 4 to 7pm. Lots of fly life - mostly olives, midges and a few yellow may duns - but not many fish rising. Found some coming to the surface in the Lower Craiglyn Pool and had a couple of small trout there to a cdc olive. Missed quite a few other takes, mostly on klinkhammer and nymph before ending with a superb 2lb 4oz (weighed in net) out of season grayling on a nymph from the tail of Llandiro Pool.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

A difficult day with very cold water and bright sun, there were a couple of hatches during the day with a reasonable amount of olives and sedges,very few mayfly. There was little in the way of rising fish.
The river has been quite scoured by flooding since last year and I found that previously wadeable areas were a bit too risky.
Fished with an F fly to catch the fish caught, tried a GRHE nymph but to no avail, will be back next week, hopefully to find the trout are feeding well.

2 Trout

Second visit to the pool. On the first, though my brother and I caught nothing, we did observe a number of carp feeding avidly upon our arrival, though this seemed to end quite quickly with our presence.
With this in mind, planned an early start this time and arrived at around 7.00am. Took a stalking rod and went along the pool; given the somewhat cold overnight temperature it was not surprising that I saw very little activity for an hour or so.
Eventually found carp bubbling, cast to them, after a short while the float slid away and I hooked something that went off like a scalded cat, stripping about 30 yards of line off the centrepin! After an interesting fight in the shallow water, I netted a Common that I estimated to be about 8/9lb.
As the day progressed and warmed somewhat, a number of carp were seen cruising on or just below the surface and at one point I had a group of three fish taking floaters, though very spasmodically. As one of the other anglers who has previously visited the pool commented, I don't think that there is a massive haed of carp in the pool, though given the number of places they can take refuge that might be a dangerous assertion to make. During the day there was a fair amount of activity along the far bank, particularly in the corner, to the left of what I take to be the monk and I also watched one or two fish moving slowly under the overhanging branches of trees on the island. There were a few intermittent flurries of activity at the back of the island, which could have been fish trying to spawn.
My brother fished a small method feeder, across on the far bank where we had seen carp activity and had a 3lb bream mid-afternoon.
Like so many WUF waters this is another venue that affords visitors the ultimate in peace and tranquility - though the main road runs quite close to the estate,you pretty quickly find that the traffic becomes insignificant.

2 Other

River low and clear with bright sunshine, only the occasional rising fish. Had a couple of other fish drop off. Also had a number of parr. All fish returned.

6 Trout, 1 Grayling

River running low and clear, lots of sherry spinner over the water and some olives coming off during the day. No mayfly though. A few fish rising here and there. Fished a parachute adams which always does a good job!
If Pedro reads this I didn't catch any fish where we spoke to each other and was good to see you had a good day!

9 Trout

Glorious weather at last, my first time on this beat. Started on a nymph and pulled out of a couple of trout in the first half hour, along by the caravan site. Plenty of fly life including Iron Blues and even a couple of Mayflies (the first I've seen this year). Finished the day having caught three wbt, largest 8 inches, all on a Greenwell's Glory. A very enjoyable day on a beat worth returning to.

5 Trout

What a pleasant stretch of the Usk with good accesiblity. Weather was very favourable with some good hatches, but the fish were not too obliging even though we tried a variety of dry and wet flies.

2 Trout

Nothing to report except phone in bottom of roaring rocks, bloody cold, exceptionally windy, needed more sandwiches and the marquee in the ti-pi adventure site blew away.
Peregrine hawking on the lower red bank pool keeping Magpies alert, Sprayed 10 litres of chemical on hogweeds, I couldn't leave them un-molested as on site and did whole of carrots beat at same time. 1.5lb brownie caught on a 3" flame thrower. SM makes a good coffee but he didn't offer me any sustenance!

1 Trout

Blank for salmon. A stiffish upstream breeze when starting soon turned into a proper gale which seemed to be coming from three directions at once, none of them the right one. My casting went all to pot. The shad have turned up though, as others have noted, and a pair of large females banged into the fly. Despite the cold spring, they are right on time.

Another very cold day, with a ferocious downstream wind. First time on this beat, and very promising it was. Apart from the relentless wind, which made casting difficult, the only other challenge was getting up and down the steep muddy banks. Wading otherwise straightforward. To the fishing: all caught in streamy water, all to the nymph. Best just over a 1lb. Couple lost to a klinkhammer. Steady hatch most of the day of olives and midge. A number of fish rising but very hard to cover given the wind.

4 Trout