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Decided to dispense with an nymph after a couple of splashy rises to my indicator fly at the bottom of the beat. A change to a quill bodied March Brown emerger with trailing shuck produced a feisty 13”er but then nothing for almost two hours’ prospecting some likely looking water. At around 2pm I walked up to the top glide and was pleased to see a few dimples. Time for a #14 Comparadun which brought six more fish to the net. The icing on the cake was a very late March Brown hatch in the faster water which yielded another couple of fish on a MB Jingler and MB emerger. All fish in the 12-15” range. Dry fly heaven !

9 Trout

Fished dry fly and nymph, upstream. There were few LDOs and March Browns comin off, but I only saw one rising trout. A strong cold wind from about 13:00. Water temperature 10C
First day out this seson and though no fish caught it was good to be back on a river.

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

Water clearing , Chub fell to 8mm pellet,
Barbel fish meal boilie .

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

10 Chub

This was my first day out on the Usk in 2026 and it was a good one. There were decent but sporadic hatches of March browns (with a few LDOs) in between 12.30 and 2.30, which brought the fish to the surface in bursts of aggressive feeding. In between the hatches, the river was quiet as is usual for this time of the year. 7 trout between the two of us, a couple just over 2lb and the rest between 0.5 and 1.75lb. Great to be back on the river.

7 Trout

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2 Barbel, 5 Chub

It was a cool (10 degs) and mainly heavily overcast day. A sparse hatch of midges, olives plus the odd march brown came off between about 12n and 1:30pm. The trout were mildly interested and a few rose (albeit most were oncers). I got one trout of between 13 & 14” on a dry (16# gingler) but to my surprise nothing on nymphs. My mate fared similarly. A lovely beat, I enjoyed fishing it.

1 Trout

Typical early March day on the Usk. Grateful the river was at a good fishable height given the rain recently. Reasonable hatch of LDOs & a few March Browns between 1-2pm. Hooked and lost one right in the tail of a pool on a dry. Then landed another. Not a monster but got the season up and running.

1 Trout

Very little fly. Four hatches/rises of about one minute each over a two hour period.

2 Trout