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Fly fishing for trout, used surface floating flies. No bites or fish caught. Saw some early rises in the morning, dull midday with some more rises and jumps in the afternoon. Weather was nice and sunny but with overcast cloudy patches every so often.

Such a lovely spot - red kite, oyster catcher, plovers, egrets, millions of sand martins.
Absolutely no action to Klink&Dink-style during the daytime & was difficult with gusty wind still, but from 8.30 it all came alive as expected & it was super fun - could have stayed later if I'd not got a fair drive back because they were still rising merrily at 10.15 under a gorgeous dusk.
The fish came to deershuckers from Barbless Flies - lost a couple more too - lovely, healthy, powerful fish.
A total tonic ;)

2 Trout

4 Trout

Tough day with a stiff wind and bright sunshine all afternoon. Managed a few trout, predominantly in the last couple of hours of light when there was a decent hatch of BWOs.

5 Trout

Despite high expectations this was quite a tough but still enjoyable day on the middle Usk, which is definitely starting to show signs of an algal bloom. The normally clear late May water had a strong green tinge with visibility around 3 feet. Still, it was certainly fishable and coloured water always makes approaching fish a little easier.
Mayflies, yellow Mays, olive uprights and smaller olives hatched sporadically although every one we saw ended up in the beak of one of the many swallows, sand martins and swifts swooping down over the river.
Rises were few and far between but we tempted 5 to just over 2lbs to mayfly pattern, cdc shuttlecock emerger and klinkhammer. Fish activity picked up a little in the evening although we were off the water by 8.30pm.

5 Trout

2 Trout

Managed to hook and lose two on a dry fly and my partner in crime hooked a 2lb trout on a ptn which promptly jumped off and swam away.
Great beat and great fun

Nothing at the top half of the beat to interest the trout fisherman, but the bottom half contains a couple of streamy runs and some flats that show promise. The wind was variable and occasionally strong, making upstream fishing tricky to impossible, and despite the sunshine it felt cool much of the day. A couple of trout were taken (one lost) and a salmon parr was taken, on upstream dry fly and New Zealand style PTN. A large chub on a silver invicta was a personal first and a surprise!

The field containing the beat is huge and we found the intended parking spot in the middle of the field impossible to find without further guidance!

1 Trout, 1 Chub

1 trout landed of 17 inches, lost 2 more, all on nymphs. No takes to a dry fly, very few fish rising. Fantastic beat and a lot of wildlife.

1 Trout

2 Trout