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10 or so 8 inch browns on various dry flies one fish to about 1 1/4lb.

Very hot day. Not many rises. Caught 5 trout. 6" to 13".
Kept and ate the 13 incher, rest returned.

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Water very cold, chilly breeze. River conditions exellent for salmon, but sadly no sign of them. Later tried for trout at lower end of beat. Hooked and lost a pound class fish, then landed another slightly bigger on an elk hair sedge size 16. Fish returned. This beat would probably fish wonderfully for trout with 18 ins. less water.

No Salmon caught or seen, however two trout caught on a cascade. One at a pound and one a pound and a half. Beautiful strech of the river. Will be back and next time hopefully wont snap my salmon rod in two after only two hours....

First time on this new WUF beat. Simple to find, easy access and safe parking. Grey, cold day with a chilly North West wind and plenty of water barreling down the Usk. Quite a varied beat with fast deep gullies and some very deep pools below the island. With nothing rising and precious little fly around nymphed unsuccessfully for two hours. Given the depth and flow of the river found it difficult to get my bugs down deep enough.
Over lunch on the bank had a think about tactics and with a few LDO's and Yellow Mayfly beginning to show in the tail of the pool above the island changed to a French Partridge and was rewarded with 5 pristine wbt. All in the 12"-14" class, wild as the Usk and fin perfect. Each take was very, very aggressive accompanied by all sorts of aerial acrobatics. All returned safely. The action stopped just as quickly as it had started, the fishing window being between 2pm and 4pm.
Really enjoyed this beat, lots of variety and am looking forward to fishing it again with perhaps a little less water and warmer climes to get more out of it.

River flooded off. Great to be able to re-book

Fished Glan-y-Cafn today, plenty of trout about, brother had a dozen or so, mainly on goldhead grhe's fished on a Tenkara rod (1st time out). Didn't see (or contact) any salmon. Couldn't make most of the beat as the water was too high to wade (above chesties) and the tree canopy making casting even a 13 ft rod difficult.

Will be back when about 10" on the Glan Usk gauge.

None, river in flood.

Did not fish.