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Just for the Rectory records (This fish in June):
I finally managed to break my duck at the Rectory with a good solid take in the Rock pool-- followed by instant stripping of line to the backing--
then a display of cartwheels,tail walking and slicing the water. After recovering line, more antics and then finally a hen fish of about 12lbs hooked firmly in the mouth with a Stoats tail.
A pleasure to see her swim away.
Height 1'9", colour and rising-- time 12.00 am.
Usk Grub, sink tip.

Great day but salmon seemed inexplicably dis-interested in what I was offering. I did eye-ball one on Gravel Catch as it leaped clear.

Height 1'6, coloured, fished 1pm -6.30 Mill/Rectory 3X/Glangwye. 2 Salmon seen in Rectory pool. None caught. 4 BT to 1lb, returned.
Thanks

12 chub to over 5lbs.

It was nice to be able to fish this beat in the Summer for coarse fish. Fished the Mill Pool but only managed 3 chub to 4lbs and missed a couple of bites, all on luncheon meat.

Return is one trout about a pound and a good shad of about 2 pounds. Quite a shoal of them at the top of the beat.

A nice couple hours evening fishing. Despite the cool temperatures there was still reasonable hatches of olives and yellow mays. 5 BT to 12", 2 small, out of season grayling and 2 dace, all to cdc olive emerger patterns.

Fished from around 6pm through to 10pm. Gusty, cold wind seemed to limit the fly hatches although there plenty of sedges with a few olives and yellow mays around during the calmer moments. Ended up with 12 brown trout to 1.5lbs and 2 out of season grayling, all on a tan klinkhammer. Had quite a few takes when the fly was dragging across the surface.

River up a foot, coloured but clearing. Had a couple of shad-safely returned.
A Salmon showed below the rock, giving some inspiration, but failed in my mission. However a lovely afternoon/evening, Thankyou.

Between 2 rods, 20 x trout 6-15 inches, 2 x out of season grayling 7-12 inches, 1 small out of season chub. Quite a lot of nice trout around 12 inches. Not very much hatching (yellow mays, a few mayfly late in the day) and not much naturally rising on a beat which is new to both of us. That cold wind was blowing again with intermittent showers! Spiders got a few in the fast water, but it turned out in the end to be a nice dry fly day as trout were prepared to come up to the artificial. I got most of mine on a sort of parachute Tups, which, looking for something with a yellow body, I nicked out of one of David's well-stocked fly boxes. It's nice to catch a trout on a fly one has tied oneself, but nicer by far on a stolen fly!

Otherwise, the odd showers of rain, while not raising the levels much, do seem to have tickled up the trout fishing a bit. Some of the lower and middle Usk beats, including Usk Town and Glanusk, are fishing quite well at the moment for both stocked and wild fish, although in the lower part of the river watch out for the shad which are now present in large numbers. A protected species, they will grab any kind of trout fly, nymph, wet or dry, even if you are already playing a trout on the dropper!