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Arrived expecting a difficult day as temperatures were forecast to fall dramatically. Found the river to be very low but this enabled me to get into the river right at the very start of the beat which I've never managed on previous visits. I'm glad I did as there were a number of trout rising to small gnats flitting across the surface, however it soon became obvious they were going to be difficult to tempt given the flat calm, slow moving shallow water and they slowly disappeared, time to move on.
At least lunchtime a few olives started to emerge but the fish only responded when they were joined by a brief but substantial hatch of March Browns, I then took a nice fish of about 12" on a dry fly. The weather then took a turn for the worse so I headed back but by the time I reached the first field again it had improved so I spent a very pleasurable hour or two dry fly fishing taking another reasonable trout and somehow missing three others before the wind got up colder than ever and the rain started, time to call it a day and head for the B&B.
A difficult but very enjoyable day on this wonderful beat, thank you WUF.

2 Trout

5 Trout

Pleasant afternoon, conditions good. Encouraging fly life but very few rises. We both managed to hook 2 trout, one of which was a good size. However, didn't manage to land any!

Very tough day. Cold and breezy with little fly activity and very few rising fish. 4 trout to 13" on mixture of dryfly and nymph.

4 Trout

Chilly nw breeze. Watery sun. Little fly life in evidence. Fish took small use nailer fished near surface. Best brown about 2lb

7 Trout

Tough day; lost a good fish

Just like this time last year (although that visit was a month earlier) a great day in prospect with no return? No true hatch and only 1 ot 2 fish seen so the "early season river" legend remains a mystery? Might be an idea sawp flies for boilies as the resident chub are very impressive but couldn't be tempted to a ptn!

Balmy spring day on a scenic stretch of the Usk. Bright sun and very clear water proved challenging but 2 nice fish of 11 & 13 inches from one of the long riffles on a beaded diawl bach. Very few olives trickled off during the day but no surface activity.

2 Trout

Very sunny. Little activity though a few spinners were around.

2 Trout

Determined nymphing lost two, but an early afternoon hatch of largish dark stonefly (!) brought one kind 14 incher to the surface and thereafter net. Very different from a few weeks earlier where fly and fish were far more in evidence.

1 Trout