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Fine 12oz brown taken just above Highwell pool, on a Greenwell spider (wet fly). Low water so barely any need for waders. Good hatch of mayfly (or similar, I'm not good at identification) but very few rises. A few bites at Vicarage pool but that was if for the day. Humid. This is s beautiful stretch; saw dippers and a pair of kingfishers.

1 Trout

Fished an evening ticket (after 17:00) and started at about half-five in extremely humid conditions. A steady trickle of various colour mayflies coming off and fish rising fairly steadily; to the point that we were preoccupied for the first hour with covering rising fish in the slow sections - ones we seemed to spook bar a 1lb WBT taken on a spider of all things.
Leapfrgging up through the faster was where the action was more consistent. Four fish of 8-9oz were taken on Parachute Adams, Sherry Spinner and GRHE before fading light stopped us just short of Poplar pool. The fish were still rising with alacrity when we left and we only did so because wading was becoming very tricky indeed in the gloaming.
A beautiful stretch and one which we'll visit very soon to cover the four-fifths we didn't even look at!

5 Trout

All trout caught on dry fly (elk hair caddis, red body gold rib). Lovely stretch of water & hope to return soon.

2 Trout

River very low and clear. Strong downstream wind made presentation difficult. But there were rising fish. I persevered and was rewarded with 9 lovely Usk trout, all returned. Biggest 2lbs.

9 Trout

A moral blank. Other than the first fish, which wasn't landed, the others were of no size. A beautiful beat, but a very challenging day.

3 Trout

Bright sunny day, some fish rising in the morning but no luck for me. The highlight for me was when I saw a mink run down the bank and swim across the river. Memorable day despite no fish caught.

Our 3rd day on this trip and still the fish are not looking up, despite perfect conditions. We fished a tandem rig most of the day and the nymph again accounted for the vast majority of fish. Some real beauties up to 3lb lost before the net. Best fish today about 2lb.
Superb fishing thank you Wye & Usk Foundation.

20 Trout

Another beautiful day on the Usk. However, not ideal fishing conditions. Strong cool breeze and very clear water made it difficult to get a fly anywhere near a fish. Nil return.

A later start than I hoped for due to my fishing friends breakfast requirements (a full fry-up). 10am start and welcomed by a head wind that didn't help our rusty casting.
A fair bit of fly on the water but then the gusts of wind blew them back into their hiding places.
After lunch a few yellow mayfly were being picked off by beautiful birds (sorry about the lack of bird and fly knowledge). A couple of trout were rising between the gusts. I managed to entice a small trout that wriggled off the hook before I could land it.
We fished mainly on the surface mixing it up with Mayfly, Parachutes, Adams and other small brown flies. Two sets of people were spinning the other side of the single bank fishing sections.
Finished at 6pm due to my fishing friends rumbling tummy, I'm sure if we continued fishing we would have caught more.

1 Trout

Back on the Usk after 45 years!
Very little fly life and only saw 5 fish move. Rose and caught two on a jingler, but really hard work due to an increasingly stiff downstream wind.

3 Trout