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First trip out in my 50th season of fishing. A typical Usk starter! On the river about 11 with medium olives hatching. Rose 6 fish in first hour - hooked 2 - landed none. They have been practicing over winter! Never mind, James had 3 to hand by this time. I turned it around with two fish in the afternoon whilst LDOs hatched which left us with 2 x 15", 2 x 12" and 1 x 10" wbt between us, all on para olive dun, and all returned. All quiet again on the river by 4pm.
We thought we had a March Brown but it lacked the obligatory leg spots - what does that make it I wonder?

5 Trout

Best fish one and three quarter pounds - rest much smaller. Most on dry Parachute Adams, one on nymph. A lot of sun but still quite cold. Only the odd fish rising so had to work quite hard for them including some challenging wading! Beautiful beat with a pair of sandpipers chasing each other around and a swan nest on an island.

7 Trout

Lost 4 fish, lots of trout showing.

1 Trout

No salmon seen.

First trip of the season on a new beat.From noon onwards there was a steady hatch of LDO's and a few march browns with the odd fish showing themselves.Due to a strong and blustry down stream wind and sporadic heavy rainstorms a dry fly could not be presented correctly.Two beautiful 13" fish did fall to a bead headed PTN making the day every thing it should be, a couple of hard won wild fish from a beautiful stretch of the Usk.Both fish were returned.

2 Trout

A beautiful autumnal day and perfect conditions for salmon, with high water and plenty of hiding places. Only problem was there wasn't a fish of any kind in evidence. It was totally dead. I caught a poacher too, a young fellow with his girlfriend. Hardly seems to matter though as there were no fish.

No fish seen or caught.

Water a little high for confident fishing on this beat with water lapping over the top of my chest waders on more than one occasion, so not easy fishing. Nothing seen or caught.

A lovely day in beautiful sceenery. 9 brown trout between us on dry and nymph. Between 6" nd 12" in size, all returned. NW wind made casting tricky, sunny and fresh. River was clear, fast and fairly low. Highlight was being startled by a huge 4ft long fish swimming up a deep channel under my nose! Only to see it more clearly a few meters away as an Otter.

Just two small Brownies between us (9" apiece). Water very clear (I think they could see us coming!). A few fish rising but nothing consistent so hard to get them to the dry fly. A couple of missed takes as well. Pale Yellow Parachute and Light Olive the taking flies.
Sporadic hatches throughout the day. Weather was mild with a bit of light rain. A downstream breeze made presentation difficult but that's the price you pay for being a diehard dry fly addict.
Both fish returned.