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A truly wonderful morning to be on the Usk. Played a good fish just above the bridge which managed to escape capture. Shortly after a small school of fish passed through with a few jumps on their way.. There seems to be plenty of fish at the moment and the river is very fishable.

Sunny day, 19C. Lovely stretch of river, but almost no fish rising all day. Blank day.

Early start. River steady at 0.8m with nice colour. No sign of trout or salmon showing all day. Had a firm take and run from a salmon on Upper Rock at 10.30 a.m.. Probably came off as it ran towards me. Not a great advert for the crushed down barbs on the Feeler Cascade double. A very early catch and release and third in a row this season! Still great to be out on this beautiful beat and nice to enjoy some action.

River at good height, but no salmon seen or encountered. 3 trout, 12 to 16 inches, on duo with tungsten nymph.

3 Trout

River high, nothing caught

Arrived early. River steady at 1.0m carrying a grey/green colour (not the usual Real Ale tint). Very fishable though. No salmon or trout seen. Had two very firm takes in 10 minutes late morning on Upper Rock pool. The first fish head showed on the surface. A bit unfortunate but kept me focused all day!

Water .61 m and weather fair with brisk W wind which eased from 2pm.
Fished with upstream dry dark olive initially with up to 4 fish rising and landed 2 of these both around three quarters of a pound just off the sill. The other two did not respond so retired for a sandwich and changed the fly to a lighter olive pattern and landed a beauty of close to 2lb. retired again and fished through below rock to the alder with floating line and single partridge and orange spider. No takes, so returned to original spot on dry to find another fish in same spot as previous fish. However, this one refused the light olive and iron blue size 14s so switched to a 12 march brown and bingo, another ilb+ fish.
What a great afternoon's entertainment. Weather deteriorated from 4pm so packed in at 5 with no further takes.

4 Trout

1trout landed 13”further to lost on the top of Rocks pool

1 Trout

Arrived to fish for an hour after a day on the lower river. Beat looked scenic as usual and conditions promising. Got a firm take just by the tip of the Rock. Had a dogged fight and a 14lb cock fish swam away strongly on release.. Floating line, 5 ft fast sink poly and smallish conehad Cascade. Had a blank season last year so felt especially good. The tug is still the drug !

1 Salmon

Muddy waters
2lb trout caught on a fly

1 Trout