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What a lovely piece of water. I am making an error here because I think that I have spent too much time on the water at the wrong time of day. It was a very bright and warm day and barely a fish moved. I fished for hours without so much as seeing a fish. Took a break and went back on the water late. At around 8.30 a few fish started to move and at 9.00 I found two fish rising steadily in a shallow gravel run. I rose and missed one on a CDC spun dun, then rose the second and hooked and landed him. My first and currently only Usk trout and I was pleased as punch. I did hook another on a downstream drift with the same fly but the trout became unstuck just after the hook up. It was hard work and one fish for the day seems poor, but I had an absolute ball and I think that this is my favourite beat so far during my visit. Technically difficult and absolutely beautiful trout. Again thanks for making this possible.. Loving my time here.

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4 Trout

Promisingly dull and warm, but the river was very low and only the odd fish showing. The wading is indeed tricky and at this height it was a matter of picking the little spots where there was a decent current without excessive turbulence. I fished from Vicarage down through Poplar and landed one small trout on a small shrimp pattern and lost another, with a couple of missed takes. For the third Usk trip in succession, leaking waders cut my day short. You need good studded waders in good condition for this beat, and mine were neither!

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6 Trout

A beautiful beat. Fished from 11am to 2pm and 7pm to 10pm. Not much about during the day but the evening was delightful even if I spent more time missing takes and retrieving my fly from bushes than catching fish. I took one pounder on a red spinner pattern. An Otter slowly swam past me which was a highlight.

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19 Trout

There is a place on this beat that always has a fish or two rising no matter what the conditions and it was a good job today. I took one on the way up the beat and another on my way back a few hours later, both took a small dry. I did have other chances missing half a dozen rises but I suspect they were only small fish.
This really is a beautiful stretch of water and I found myself standing in the warm sunshine looking up river willing there to be a fish or two rising but it just didn’t happen, very difficult on the dry fly with a noticeable lack of emerging insects on the water. There were a few spinners about though, some of which were bright red.

2 Trout

Hot and sunny, a lot of mayfly and olives coming off. Hard work during the day but plenty of rises in the evening but just couldn’t get them to take!

Was not able to get to the stream until 11:00am and with the clear blue skies it seemed fish had shut down feeding so no fish caught but still a nice out in beautiful weather.

Arrived to find two Kayakers camped on the rocks below the bottom parking spot and finished the day with a family in a canoe and on a stand up paddle board making their way downstream, both pleaded ignorant when challenged but these were well equipped regular paddlers. The fishing was good in the morning until 10.30 am but then shut down, we need some rain to get things going.

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