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All fish taken by my fishing buddy, the last fish was a particularly fine specimen, all taken on nymphs. Glorious sunny day with very little fly life to report except a few Mayflies.

6 Trout

Booked this beat and Abercynrig for the day. Shame this isn't a single beat any more . What seemed like perfect conditions were immediately laid to rest with a very stiff downstream breeze. I No sustained hatch during the day but the off fish rising. Caught the 3 fish by prospecting rather than covering rising fish. Stubbornly stuck with dries which meant a rather frustrating day with the breeze. . one fish were around 6" 8" and 10" respectively.

3 Trout

4 Trout

Sunny day 20* No shortage of rising fish, but as far as fishermen are concerned, many of them seemed to be under a " Nill by mouth order" or so it seems, despite our attempts feed them. 5 trout between two rods, small dry flies and nymphs. Best fish 1. 1/2lbs

5 Trout

River low and clear. Much fly life but fish topping and tailing taking just below the surface. Black CDC shuttlecock and black wet size 18 most successful.

10 Trout

1 trout on a deer hair emerger. Missed quite a few rises.

1 Trout

Fished both with Dries and a single nymph. Cloudy day no wind and very pleasant. 3 x trout were small but one was between 2 and 2 1/2lb, this caught on a nymph. Found dries difficult to select as the trout rejected nearly everything I used.

4 Trout

Cold with chilly breeze. River fairly low; sporadic rises, with no pattern or repeat rises; so hard to evaluate fly, tactics etc. Most successful tactic was size 16/18 black wet fly, fished just below the surface. Missed a few takes, lost a couple and managed to bring 2x BT to net, 12"-14". (Same tactic, fishing with MN, same beat 3 days later, produce 7 fish).Czech & French nymphing not my thing but would like to think that these techniques would have been productive as plenty of fish in the beat and the whole beat was accessible. However, the majority of the rises were in slow moving, shallow water. Usually find the Usk very productive in the last daylight hour but left early, due to low air temperature and lack of belief that there would be an improvement in surface activity.

2 Trout

5 Trout

2 Trout