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Some small hatches and fish rising but they were not interested in my dry fly offering. Managed 3 on a wet fly and missed/lost another couple.

3 Trout

Day 2: It felt much warmer than yesterday. A couple of hours spider fishing proved futile.

It was a case of patiently waiting for hatching flies. There was a decent hatch of March browns from 12:30' to 13:00'and then some carried on trickling in the afternoon. Fish were on them, but tricky to find an imitation they liked.

One of us had the misfortune to rise 6 fish and miss all 6, and one of us stalked a serious fish in the 3lb class for over half an hour, hooked it and the hook came off during the ensuing battle. At end of the day we had 4 trout in the net.

The Usk is certainly a river where less is more. It is not about quantity of fish, but quality.

4 Trout

Day 1: Three of us ventured out taking advantage of the high barometric. Glorious weather, sunny, low wind, ideal for casting. Strong sunlight is something that fish do not prefer but it is not so much of an issue in early Spring. The water temperature was 8C. Still on the low side but as the day warmed up a trickle of large dark olives and March browns started hatching after 12:30'.

As usual, fish were difficult to tempt requiring very long leaders, constantly changing flies and delicate presentations. We managed 7 very lively trout, some on dries and some on spiders. A memorable day out in peaceful surroundings.

7 Trout

Pleasant 3 hours with a few olives coming off just after mid day, but no sustained hatch.
All but one came to traditional winged wets fished just sub surface. Biggest a pound but all of the fish in good condition for the time of year.

5 Trout

It was a cool (10 degs) and mainly heavily overcast day. A sparse hatch of midges, olives plus the odd march brown came off between about 12n and 1:30pm. The trout were mildly interested and a few rose (albeit most were oncers). I got one trout of between 13 & 14” on a dry (16# gingler) but to my surprise nothing on nymphs. My mate fared similarly. A lovely beat, I enjoyed fishing it.

1 Trout

Typical early March day on the Usk. Grateful the river was at a good fishable height given the rain recently. Reasonable hatch of LDOs & a few March Browns between 1-2pm. Hooked and lost one right in the tail of a pool on a dry. Then landed another. Not a monster but got the season up and running.

1 Trout

1 Trout

14 Trout

A short evening visit.
One trout on an Adam’s Klink, the others on a wet medium olive.

7 Trout

3 Trout