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Another big water day but rather better weather than yesterday. Sadly, very little of the beat was fishable due to high flows, despite the water clearing slowly through the day. Did a lot of walking and climbing up and down slippery banks. Very little hatching and nothing seen rising despite the sunny conditions. The pool immediately below the aqueduct provided the only substantive fishing, so fished it up three times! One 12” trout on GRHE nymph variant was the only reward (returned). This is very definitely not a beat for a big water day.

1 Trout

A cold and bright day greeted us in this very slow burner spring. Water level was good after a recent freshet. I caught my first ever fish on a partridge and orange casting upstream to a likely holding spot. A localised hatch of iron blues bought the fish to the surface, and I had a further 4 on a dry adams. This was a very pleasing spell, casting to rising fish is such an enjoyable experience. Sadly the hatch petered out as the wind increased and the Usk returned to its challenging normal state.
My friend JJ took 4 on nymphs , commenting that he had only seen the odd sporadic rise. All fish were in good condition and the majority were around the 1 lb mark, they gave a great account of themselves and all were returned safely
Great show of nature today, with Kingfishers, dippers, wagtails, Martins, Kites, Buzzards, and Sandpipers all in evidence.
I think I'm ready for Spring to really get going, not sure I should be wearing 6 layers when fishing in May!
A very enjoyable day in a special place.

9 Trout

Beautiful day and river in good condition. Fish rising to good hatch of March browns around lunchtime but I had no luck with the dry fly. Caught 1 medium sized WBT on a copper John early on. Fish safely returned.

1 Trout

Bright day, cool upstream breeze. Arrived at mid day, not an easy beat to fish, bedrock and deep pools make it always challenging. A hatch around one o’clock got a few risers but nothing taken. Later afternoon a couple of takes at the lower end of the beat but not landed. Watched a rise in parsons pool around half two, targeted withLDO but no luck, changed to a dun, and after losing a couple of flies in the trees managed to land a lovely WBT of about 1.5lb, half hour later same again further upstream and again a WBT, bit smaller, in lovely condition. A good day on the river, challenging but rewarding.

2 Trout

really odd today, weather- how i like it, river- how i like it, nice and low , but no fish 8am-12noon, then a hatch and 4 fish to 1lb on nymphs all returned

4 Trout

1 Trout

2 Trout

A few LDOs and the odd MB hatching but the river is still very cold.

Water looked good, weather was good, lots of fly life, and a few fish were coming up to the top. It all looked good. Sadly it was not to be - DJ caught the only fish of the day (safely returned), and I blanked. Highlight of the day was me falling in and getting a good soaking.

Still great to get to the River before the end of the Season. We'll be back to get them next year.

1 Trout

Difficult day plenty of fly life but only a lmited amount of surface action. All fish taken on goldheads and unweighted nymphs.

6 Trout