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Overnight rain had refreshed river without adding too much volume or colour. Cool and cloudy with sunny intervals. Air temp 9-15C. Water temp 10C. Persistent cool d/str breeze. Fished from 11am - 3pm. A few March Brown around 11.30am and a thin scattering of large olives from noon until 3pm. Caught 9 trout, 7 of which on dry olive. 5 over a pound with heaviest 1lb 4oz.

9 Trout

What a beautiful place to spend a day. Easy directions to follow. River low so wading easy most of the length. Very bright. Downstream wind so dry fly difficult. Resorted to wet. Got three fish on and returned but more than that missed. Two a very good size - 1lb and 1.5lb perhaps. Felt very lucky to spend a day on the river here.

3 Trout

Lovely day with sunshine and low clear water, fish very challenging and picky, caught all on a bwo and one on a mb, many refused after a splash. Activity from 13:00 to 16:30 and only in few areas.
Saw few fish with white head, behaving strangely, possibly a fungus?!

7 Trout

Fishing with Oliver Burch. Overcast all day. 8 trout to 14", 6 on nymph and spiders. 2 on dry fly-elk hair caddis. All fish returned. Great day out and I learnt a lot!

8 Trout

Bright sunny and hot, water low and gin clear so not easy but good response to long line (French) nymphing. Surprisingly sparse hatch, few LDO,a few March brown and very few rises even later in the day. However, no complaints with 10 trout all taken on a small black tungsten head nymph. All a good size and largest to 14 ins.

10 Trout

Fish returned. Bright day with river low and clear. Nothing rising at all despite a trickle of olives hatching through the day.

2 Trout

Wet Fly. Very low and bright.

2 Trout

I was guided by the excellent Oliver Burch. With his help, four trout between 10" and 14" landed, and a few more bumped off. Water getting low after a two week dry spell. Disappointing hatches, despite bright warm sun, possibly due to cold easterly wind. All four fish caught on spiders; few fish rising and those that were, weren't tempted by different flies.

4 Trout

Very low and bright. Granddaughter's first trout on Usk Purple/iron blue.

1 Trout

Started in the run at the very bottom of the beat around 10.30 and had a series of fish in the riffles, mostly 8-10 inches. Hooked and lost a good sized fish in the waterfall at the top of the riffles. by 1 p.m. the activity had calmed. 3 fish hooked and lost at the top end of the beat, but overall an enjoyable day which could have been trimmed to 10:30 t 14:00.

10 Trout