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Water low and clear, so had to pick my spots carefully. All but one of the fish were taken between the Bridges, fishing small March Brown nymphs. Best fish was caught at the tail of the pool below the canal bridge, on a size 18 PTN. All fish returned.
Another really enjoyable day on this terrific beat.

5 Trout

Just a few March Browns appeared in the afternoon but small hatches of olives to interest the fish. Fished dries only and fish a bit spooky in the clear glides as quite sunny in between the hailshowers.... We got 2 lovely fish of 2 lb and 2.25 lb on MBs . Strange that we did not witness a single rise on the upper glides between the bridges despite at one stage a good hatch of olives floating down ready to be picked off. First time on this beat and very enjoyable day with kingfishers and kites for company.

4 Trout

Bright sun all day, river crystal clear, 11in on web cam, unpleasant downstream wind.

Sunny first thing, but went very cold with cloud and North wind. Water temp only 7C. Nothing rising.

10 trout on nymphs. Nothing rising unfortunately

10 Trout

Glorious evening fishing, with a spectacular.evening rise. There is a long pool with a shelf down the centre at the bottom of the beat, which proved very productive for the evening rise. It holds an incredible head of big fish. I spent the evening guiding for my friend, who had not picked up a rod for 10 years and despite this he had 8 fish in 4 hours.

No heavy hatches but a plethora of different emphemerotera. Were fishing Klinks in the faster water and reverting to size 16 little upwinged, cinnamon or cinnamon and cream patterns for the stiller water. Fish were a bit edgy and a minimum leader length of 16ft seemed necessary for the still water. We were veering towards 2lb test tippet and I would have gone lighter if my friend was striking with a bit more finesse.

A truly evening.

8 Trout

Quite a tough evening on the Usk. The trout started rising at about 8.30 but to what I couldn't work out. I threw everything in my box at consistent risers for over an hour, but all were refused.
Earlier in the evening I had 5 small trout on nymph and klinkhammer in the faster sections and lost a couple of other decent fish.

5 Trout

Bright sunshine and low water, so a challenging day. All fish taken on nymphs - nothing could be tempted with dries - and all safely returned.

8 Trout

Sun and some overcast. Much warmer than previous day but chilly upstream breeze still evident. Much less fly life . A few olives, false March brown and masses of black gnat. Found small pockets of fish at the tail end of the salmon pools. Very selective feeders which refused most of my patterns but were not spooked. At the end of a frustrating day I managed to hook up to two very large fish taken on a deer hair emerger. One came unstuck and the other decided to head over the weir and I was broken. Little to show for a great deal of effort.