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Lovely weather to be out but some overnight rain saw the river rising through the day. It started off clear but had risen considerably and coloured up by about 4pm. There was a small hatch of LDOs late morning which never really got going, but the most tremendous March Brown hatch which lasted the best part of an hour. The river was littered with MB duns but barely a fish rose to them. Very frustrating.The height of the river made it difficult to find somewhere to fish properly. I blanked but Andreas managed 2 trout, one to an LDO emerger and another to a spider pattern. One of the toughest days I can remember on the Usk, but as always, a pleasure to be out. 4 canoes spotted - at least they were polite. This is my second consecutive trip on a WUF beat where canoes / rafts have paddled through the beat and you can tell from their gear that these are serious paddlers and not some lads having a bit of jaunt. What's to be done?

2 Trout

Not a day for fair weather fishermen, but the angler's obsession drove us to persevere through gale force winds and blanket rain. And what a return! Eight lovely fish between 12 and 18", mainly to a Copper John. An excellent beat, to which we will return !

8 Trout

Beautiful bright Spring day and water gin clear and below 1 on the Glanusk gauge brought up fly and fish from 1230 in brief concentrated flurries. Rusty angler had a lovely if somewhat erratic time with 6+ to 15 inches. All done by 1500. Is there anywhere more pleasant on such a day?

6 Trout

Lovely day, Big hatch about 13.00 . But very few fish rising to take them. Lots of wildlife , kingfishers, mink,rabbits and some very inquisitive lambs.Caught 2 browns on Dial Bach.

2 Trout

A warmer day with some sunshine which prompted a flurry of rising fish to LDOs and a few March browns. Failed to connect so a blank.

Freezing cold and overcast all day. A very small hatch of LDOs and nothing rising or prepared to take nymph. A flock of 13 cormorants were see flying over. And a mink.

Sunny day and cold with an easterly breeze.Very little fly life and no fish seen rising.Fished with weighted nymph and spider on a dropper but no success.On plus side saw an otter.

Another day of unfathomable Usk fishing! Good river height, reasonable air temperature, proven flies from previous visits but no hatch to speak of with very few fish looking up? Good to see the kingfisher and the dipper and see the otter tracks, amazed to see and photograph a virtually tame mink! A great day to enjoy the lovely Welsh countryside in spite of the Usk trout fishing having seen better days!

Lovely spring-like day. Temp c. 8C-10C and bright. No wind. Water cold. Fished bugs on bottom. Sporadic Dark Olives floated down from mid-day until around 3pm. One good-looking trout about 1.5lb on a pheasant-tail nymph on dropper. Two or three rises. Fished with guide Chris Price, who I would thoroughly recommend. And his Kelly kettle was a great warmer! SEP

1 Trout

Another cold day for the Oxford Ice Fishers but we are a resilient bunch. Very good breakfast at the Dragon Inn, Crickhowell set us up nicely for a days fishing and the water was much clearer than the day before.
As the others found on Saturday the water level restricted access to the top 500yds of the beat and our skills were not able to winkle out any fish despite this we returned home happy if cold.