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The Usk was in excellent condition, running clear and at a nice level for the tricky wading. Quite overcast and mild. A few Sedges and Olives about but not a sign of a rise anywhere. Set up fishing the duo with a Copper Head Black Nymph on the point in the streamier runs and got into 8-10" fish fairly quickly. Sport dried up and I switched to french leader style in the deeper runs to no avail, losing my best flies on the bottom (hey ho). Altogether a lovely day, best fish 12" bar of Usk gold.

On the downside saw 3 Goosanders halfway up the beat, never a good sign.

A nice bit of water & several nice fish caught between both rods. One small complaint though - this is a four rod beat and on top of our two rods we saw another three anglers out spinning for salmon on the same beat as well?

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The river gauge was up from its average level and the water was a bit coloured so this made the fishing fairly tough. We caught the odd fish on dries but most fish were taken on a nymph. We caught 11 brown trout in total.

No fish caught.Easy booking and good information supplied.

Stunning stretch and running clear. All muddy water coming into usk from junction pool on this beat. Just one tiddler and not much sign of fish but we were there in the middle of the day so no real surprise.

I fished from 9-11.30am. Personally, I found this beat quite dangerous as the river goes from shallow to very deep in a lot of areas, and the riverbed can by quite slippery. I didn't catch anything nor did I see a fish rise.
The scenery was very good, but i was expecting a much better days fishing. Maybe it was just one of those days?
The flies I tried were CDC 'F' fly, caenis & grey duster.

Caught and released one small brown trout. The fish was caught on a bead head grhe. Nothing else all day.

1 bite to a green nymph but nothing caught.

A very wet evening but fishing good with fish up to 18inches. Most fish about 11inches.

A picture postcard scene when I first made the river after an early breakfast (after a bit of faffing trying to work out which lay-by to park in. Sun streaming through trees, steady hatch, water very clear (all colour had gone overnight.
Hadn't fished this far up the Usk before and it is noticeably smaller than below Brecon. A fair amount of overhanging trees make for careful casting (there were a couple of red flying Cs hanging from the tree branch over the quarry pool, looking like someone had forgotten to take down all the Christmas decorations!)
Landed (and released) half a dozen trout, all to a gold-head PTN, best about 1lb. Packed up at 2pm, hadn't been much fly life post 12, and the weather reverted to current Summer form of cloud with intermittent rain.
A beautiful beat, and I imagine great fishing a little earlier in the year with more daytime activity.
PS - a note on the wading / getting around. While not the trickiest beat on the Usk, one needs to be careful and definitely needs studs. Some deep holes close to bank side. Met the farmer, very pleasant chap, and he understandably wants anglers to keep to the river when moving about. Given some of the banks are very steep, this inevitably involves more wading to get up and down the beat.