Feedback & Reports

5 WBT to the net between 2 rods. Three fish were around the 1 - 1.5lb mark. All taken on #18 olive sparkle dun targeted at rising fish. In the warm weather, the hatches were well under-way when we arrived at 10.30am. 4 of the fish were in the net before 11.30am! Plenty of olives and March Browns hatching off. Fish were still risking at dusk although they appeared to switch to midge and were far more difficult to tempt, even with the smallest of flies. A few sedge were hatching at the end of the day also. A very pleasant day to be on the river.

Got there just before noon, to some rising fish near the road bridge. Hooked one 10" WBT on klinkhammer, missed another. Missed what seemed a decent fish on a weighted nymph in same location. Moving further up the beat, no real sign of fish activity. Perhaps too early in season? Lovely stretch of water, although perhaps mostly bit too deep and fast running for serious trout action?

A great day's fishing. Large Dark Olives about from about 11am until 3pm and caught four trout (1/2lb to 1 1/4lb) on a sparkle Dun. The best part for me though was a flush hatch of March Brown that lasted about 15 minutes only (starting at 12.30)which is something I've hoped to see but always missed on my annual early season trips to the Usk over the past 10 or so years. Even though I'm sure the trout were taking dark olives then as well I felt compelled to switched to a march brown to catch my 5th trout. It's a great beat. All trout were returned

A successful first outing of the 2012 season yesterday with 3 trout caught and 1 lost, all of about 1lb and in lovely condition. Taken on CDC emergers and duns during a decent LDO hatch, but which was localised to the faster water about 70 yards upstream of the bridge. Flies started to appear at around 12.30pm with the hatch at its most intense at around 1.30pm. It was all over by 2.15pm.

Sadly fishing dour and only 2 takes to report, both on the flying c. no fish seen
Service from wuf excellent

1 x 7lb hen fish - returned.

5 x trout 7-10 inches, small Pheasant Tail Nymph under a Klinkhammer. Another of these "nothing much rising" days, although a few sedges were around and the first of the autumn large dark olives have begun, warm as it is. I mostly searched the pocket water at the bottom end with a New Zealand style set-up. Something larger came up to a dry fly in the Crawnon Pool at the very overgrown top end. I was hopeful for a few seconds, but it came off before I could get a look at it. I tend to regard this as not the easiest of middle/upper Usk beats - the wading certainly isn't - but probably one of the most beautiful. After a late lunch, sat in the sun outside the village shop with a coffee and an icecream. As far as the trout rod is concerned, that is probably "goodbye" to the Usk from me this year.

1 trout - returned.

2 small trout - returned.

Did not fish