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Nice stretch of the river, sunny and warm, clear sky. Have not seen fish rising although LDO and midges were around. Nothing on dries, one 12' brown at 16:00 on a jig nymph in fast current.

The beat had lots of people walking past, having picnics, sunbathing on bedrock in the river. Kids were everywhere, lost count of the times was asked if I caught anything.

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21 04 21 - Glan - y - Afon  A cooler overcast day with an upstream breeze.
A 10.30 start. A few LDO's around but not much happening as I walked up the beat as far as possible, which turned out to be a 100 yds short of the end, due to it being impossible to discern what route one could take to avoid trespassing.
I had spotted a couple of likely runs on my way upstream and so stopped and watched on my way back. My first spot had one fish rising, sadly, right on the far side of the main current.
 I decided to look elsewhere and return later.
Further down was a nice run with the odd fish taking flies with gusto.
I tried my favourite pattern but all I got was a look and refusal. After about half an hour of trying different flies, with no interest, I moved back to my first spot where the fish was still rising and I tied on a parachute adams, a fly I can see well at distance. The first cast that was drag free had the fly well taken, my first fish. I could not rise any more fish here so moved back to my previous spot and left the adams on. I hooked 3 fish in about 15 minutes, landing 2, and could not get any further interest or see any more rising fish so packed up just before 3pm.
An interesting day, 3 to the net, biggest 1.25lb.

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Few olives and sedges started at 10:30 but first rise to MB around 11am. Short hatch for about half hour but fish sporadically rising for another hour after that. Three nice trout on a dry MB. All fish returned

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One very nice 15inch trout early on but then slowed down with the bright sun and northerly wind..

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Great stretch and accessibility without waders. A few dippers and kayaks however.

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Lovely sunny September day, rather too bright for fishing! Fished the bottom and middle sections. Forgot how hard the wading / fishing is here. We fished from 11am to 6pm and thoroughly enjoyed it. Left tired and staggering from slipping off big Usk rocks all day. There are lots of places where you’re just certain a trout will be - but no idea how you wan wade to the position needed to cast!

Lost one on a PTN fished duo, and a few missed takes on both dry and nymph. All in all the dish ended on the winning side for the day.

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