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Lovely beat but your map for parking 3/4 is out of date. The road downstream to the parking can't be accessed from Sennybridge as there is an army base 'in the way'. Parking 3/4 needs to be accessed by crossing the Usk from the A40 in advance of Stennybridge

Great to be back by the Usk again!
Although I don't think of July as being the best month, the conditions were good. Started at 2.30pm, and nothing at all until about 6pm. Then caught a very fat 2lb trout on an upstream nymph in fast water, missed a second, and finally caught a third of about 1lb around 8pm.
Great afternoon!

2 Trout

Lovey long beat with lots of pools, glides, riffles and waterfalls. The only thing it is missing is fish! Lots of fly life and very clear water. Nothing seen apart from parr. Such a shame but I think this river has had too much catch and kill and otter/mink activity to be worth paying for again.

An evening ticket after a very hot day. 10pm before fish would take, although they were rising sporadically earlier.

4 Trout

A great day on this lovely beat. Sporadic hatches of upwings all day and trout rising, but picky. Smaller trout, all of around 12 inches, caught during the day. Bigger trout in the semi dark, up to 17 inches. Water low and clear (0.25 at Trallong) and by the evening the water temp seemed to have risen. Need a thermometer next time.

8 Trout

Washed off

Spent 5 hours on this lovely beat. Saw a few fish, but after one cast they were gone so very spooky. Nothing I could throw at them would tempt them so gave up late afternoon. Lots of potential in this beat but seems to be sparse of fish at the moment

Fished this lovely stretch of water but water was a little low. Tried euro nymphing for the first time but no luck. Also tried dry flies in the evening but no luck either. There were very few rising in the evening even though there was a hatch for sure. Saw 2 very large fish jumping, one possible a salmon given its size.

Saw a few large fish in the clear water but they wouldn't tolerate sharing the river despite our best ninja impersonations. Didn't see any smaller fish at all but plenty of goosander about. Could these facts be related?

Nothing happening on the trout front, but i did see a salmon near the deep pool on the bend near the army camp.