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First time on this stretch and I loved it what a great bit of the Usk! Sunny scattered cloud 18-20oc so quite warm at times . Annoying strong downstream wind did its best to mess up a few dry fly drifts!

I ended up with 2 Browns on the nymph fished beneath a Klink small about 6 inch. Lost 1 on the nymph and had the best of the day on the dry fly superb colours nice dark spotted Brown trout nearly 10inches took a CDC Elk size 16. There were a good number of rising trout at times which was good to see and fish for. Unfortunately I found a dead Bat hanging from a hook attached to another 2 flies and orange indicator. Shame especially as it was in an easy to reach place to retrieve .
Will be back soon as I really liked the beat.
Thank you

3 Trout

torrential rain all day so very little activity on the water

The previous day's rain made the Usk like chocolate!
Conditions picked up as the day progressed but I was nearly finished by the time fish began to move.
I finally hooked one brute, but he smashed me!
That put the cap on a very disappointing weekend.

Couple of small browns to dries, a couple more off the hook but it was very tough today. Low and clear water so fish spooky to begin with; also an angler on the far bank who was a nice chap but think we probably hindered each other a bit in these conditions. Some BWOs and pale wateries began to hatch at times and one or two trout would start to rise, but then one of many light rain showers would come in and everything would shut down. There was light rain for much of the day but unfortunately this did not really seem to affect the river level - after a dry spell I guess all the surrounding plants in the catchment were soaking most of that up before it could reach the river, it needs more!

2 Trout

Usk low and clear after no rain in weeks and another hot day. Plenty of pools and pocket water to creep up on though. One 10” wbt on the wet in the morning. A couple of larger fish seen but not moved. Lots of lazy rises towards the evening, but don’t think I managed to figure out what they were taking! First time on the Usk, will definitely return..

1 Trout

Booked an evening ticket, but then found a new definition of torture as I sat in nose to tail traffic between Bristol and Cardiff - absolute agony, almost gave up and only arrived after 7! However at least the temperature was a lot cooler up in the Brecons as hoped from the forecast - only 19-20C while it was 26C below. On arriving at the river my luck changed as there was a smattering of BWOs hatching for the rest of the evening, some spinners later too. Lots of fish rising to them, in a short session fishing dries I caught three smallish ones (9, 10 and 11"), then connected with a hog that gave a proper scrap and nearly lost me under some roots. Photo attached, doesn't do him justice really as it was a bit dark under the trees and had to use flash with my mobile. Measured 19.75" to the tail fork, so obviously being a fisherman I'll round up to the magic 20 (he was 20 to the tip of the tail! :D). I didn't want to mess him around too much so didn't weigh, but sure he would have been 3lb, maybe a few ounces more as these Usk trout always go heavy on the size conversion charts. He went well back well along with the others. Thanks for another lovely session - short but sweet!

4 Trout

River very low and water very warm. Only managed to catch one small fish on a dry dropper setup.

1 Trout

bright sunshine and very low water - few fish seen

1 Trout

Very low hot.

We fished after de rain from 18-22 between quarrypool en junction pool. Each of us catched 1 trout and each hooked but lost another 3-4. Instects: red spent mediim, pond olive spent, small dark olive spent. Hardly any sedges, some mayfly late dusk.
Best flies: once&Away cdc emergers no 18 pale yellow with pkume cdc, klinkhammer nr 14-16, red spent, pale yellow spent.
Nice beautiful beat. Mind there is a awkward piece of iron just beside de fence from quary pool upstream. Its a wader killer.

2 Trout