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Hard to imagine more perfect-seeming conditions, the water on the way down, bright and clear. Once again, however, the fish only seemed to feed at all during the hatch (such as it was). Despite a great deal of trying, I managed only two trout both around the pound. Not what you would call lavish but a beautiful day on the river.

2 Trout

2 Trout

Only two angler's managed to fish, landed one brownie each. Tough conditions, bright sun & flat calm for most of the session. Caught on traditional wets. Still enjoyable day out.

2 Trout

Lovely beat well kept . No fish showing no pulls.

Had a great days fishing but unfortunately both of us blanked. Not sure why. There were a lot of fly activity but only the occasional rise and despite trying patterns at all stages nothing was taken. Still a lot of water coming through and tricky to enter the river. Will look at returning here later in the year when it warms up.

Not a single bite all day. No fish.

Lovely day, and great to be back at the river. Waited and waited for a fly hatch, but none came. Just a few isolated flies, a couple of which wee taken by trout. But not mine!

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Day 2: It felt much warmer than yesterday. A couple of hours spider fishing proved futile.

It was a case of patiently waiting for hatching flies. There was a decent hatch of March browns from 12:30' to 13:00'and then some carried on trickling in the afternoon. Fish were on them, but tricky to find an imitation they liked.

One of us had the misfortune to rise 6 fish and miss all 6, and one of us stalked a serious fish in the 3lb class for over half an hour, hooked it and the hook came off during the ensuing battle. At end of the day we had 4 trout in the net.

The Usk is certainly a river where less is more. It is not about quantity of fish, but quality.

4 Trout