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1 BT about a pound C&R'd early on via a Deer Hair Emerger and that was it! Couldn't get a sniff on nymphs. Water low and clear with sunny, warm conditions. As K from Brum said, plenty of fly in the air but not much hatching. Lovely fishery but wading dicey in parts.

Never blanked at the USK reservoir two times in succession but did it today. I wasn't the only one though, none of the other anglers were catching anything either and all legal methods were being employed. I am beginning to think this water fishes better late in the season, but I will try again shortly.

Very bright and warm conditions.

I could catch 1 Grayling and 3 trouts as follows. Grayling - 42cm with Sedge. Brown trout - 26cm, 20cm and 18 cm all with Sedge. Very low water, and difficult to catch.

Water low and clear, bright sun all day. Two small brown trout, one fell off at the bank! Both on the holy grail. There were a few fish rising, but no takes from the top. I'm not the greatest fly caster and found the overgrown conditions difficult so did not really cover the rising fish, a better caster would have caught more I'm sure. A really nice beat that could be much improved by some major bank work.

No fly no rise. One trout 6". Saw brook lamperns spawning.

Fished from 2 to 6pm. A few grannom about and occasional olives. A few trout rising but only managed 2 small ones, both to emerging olive.

Many thanks for organising access to this famous beat. Shared the fishings with another WUF rod and Ghillie was very helpful and kind to show us around. Several good sized Salmon seen but maddeningly could not get them to take in the bright hot conditions. Got a nice sun tan on my forearm though. Thanks for all your hard work as usual.

Saturday saw the first of the trout courses for the year, we had three attendees. During the day we covered traditional wet fly techniques and Czech nymphing.

All in all nine fish were caught with everyone catching something. The best fish was a beautifully conditioned but out of season Grayling that came out of a very fast shallow run during demonstration of Czech nymphing.

The odd fish could be seen moving through out the day and although I saw non hatching, plenty of Grannom were on the water

First time on this beat. A few grannom and olives but not many fish moving to them (same further upstream towards Abergavenny) in the hot, bright conditions. Just 3 trout, biggest 7" to cdc emerger patterns. I will return to fish the beat when the weather is better. The top half looked potentially great trout water.

1 x brownie @ 9in. Water low, clear and still cold despite sun.