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Full, cool day with occasional drizzle. Flies hatching intermittently over the day (olives) with fish regularly rising. Fished bottom of the beat most of the day. Fish difficult to tempt and lost several but landed one lovely WBT of about 14”

1 Trout

Fished Upstream dry fly for trout as salmon looked very unlikely. Not many rising trout. A couple of early mayfly spotted. Rocks covered in slippery weed through much of the beat.

1 Trout

Fairly ropey beat for trout anglers. When low especially. Access is terrible with no bank work for many years. Large parts of the beat are canal like. Uniform depth, flow etc no features to fish too. I wouldn't book this again as a trout angler.

A glorious Spring day. Mostly sun with occasional cloud. Temp up to 19C. Wind light and variable to start then settled upstream happily. Fished 11.00 to 16.00. No hatch of any kind although spinners were dancing in sheltered areas and some laying. Without being disturbed by trout... I only saw 1 fish rise all day but by fishing likely seams and riffles with an Olive Comparadun hooked 4 and netted 3 stunning condition trout of circa 2.5 lbs. Another wonderful afternoon on the river.

3 Trout

A very difficult day. No fly, no rises and very sulky fish. Just one (a 16”er) was tempted by a Duracell nymph in fast water.

1 Trout

A glorious spring day, but not for fishing. Nil return

One of the better days on the usk that we’ve had. Arrived with plenty of fish rising but they were still clever enough to avoid our flies.

Managed to catch a couple out of the faster water at the top of the first pool as well as losing another two. About 1 o clock the rising stopped and fishing slowed down. By mid afternoon things picked up again and another three were caught including a nice 22/23 inch fish which, after a bit of fight in the faster water, took a while to recover but after 15 minutes or so happily swam back off.

5 Trout

4 Trout

Lightish rain overnight and a damp start. We commenced our operations at about 10.30 and soon had a good fish on a size 12 nymph. There were no fly visible and just a few gentle, sipping rises in the pools so fished a red spinner pattern resulting in a cracking fish of about 2 pounds and full of fight! Quite the handsomest Usk fish I have ever had the pleasure to meet! Full of vigour too - a splendid scrap. She had already regained condition on the olives and March Browns - this has been an early season judging by the reports! (I am a great believer in the red spinner/red quill - 'the dry fly fisherman's sheet anchor on a strange river' - its amazing how often it saves me a lot of head scratching. There seem to almost always be a few red or reddish spinners on the water. Piscatorial peanuts... you see a bowl of peanuts and what do you do? When just the odd fish is rising lazily for no obvious reason it scores much more than it fails for me.) No fly to speak of until about 1.30 when a (very) few large olives put in an appearance. Tempted another fish but he let go. Some grannom were flying upstream during the afternoon. Saw plenty of kingfishers streaking around, electric blue, and had the pleasure of watching an otter fishing for a while - big chap too! I, for one, am happy to let this majestic creature share our fishing. I don't think all of my 'brothers of the angle' would necessarily share this sentiment, but his need is greater than ours! Apologies for a rather self-indulgent report.

2 Trout

Disappointed that a large section of the river was difficult to access, due to trees and shrubs.