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Fished on an evening ticket to avoid the high heat of the day and had a really lovely few hours.
I thought this was a fantastic beat ! I only got up to the back of the farm way but from the downstream limit up to the farm it was all really very fishy looking and highly fishable , casting from shallow water generally in to to deeper but not bottomless looking deep gutters!
Parking , access , wading , moving around upriver and on land (no padlocks on gates and newly installed stile/piping on barbed wire) was good .
A beautiful venue , the hayfields not yet cut and surprisingly very peaceful even with the A40 not far away.
Nothing happening with any fly , prospected with a cdc sedge and got some interest. If like me though you much like fishing an attractor dry in the pockets/slicks/fast runs you'll like this one I'm sure.
A good number of fish cruising and sipping on no see ums in the glassy tail water of quarry pool late on. I told myself to keep walking but you know how it goes!! It was fun trying, a fab pool for sure.
O.29m on the Trallong gauge, looked perfect.
Very much looking forward to more of this !

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I found it difficult today, next to no fish rising, managed two on nymphs, sunny and showers with a strong saw wind.

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2 nice brown trout caught early in the day on Diawl Bach, lovely beat

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Those damn trout too damn tricky for me!

In contrast to beats I’ve fished on the Wye, the Upper Usk teems with insect life. Different farming practices in the two valleys?
Two trout hooked in faster flows on perdigon, both played and lost.
A nod to the farmer / WUF for creating safer access to the river upstream of quarry pool with a new stile.
Thanks also to GCG Angling club member (they have access to the opposite bank) for tips on fishing the Cwmwysg beat.

Warm day with sunny intervals, very little wind, river very low and clear.

Very little in the way of insect life coming off the water, but quite a few sporadic rises not a clue what they were taking though.

Two caught on dry one on nymph

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