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rain cold no fish

Nice beat - mixed water with glides for spiders, flats for dry's and rapids for nymphs. The river was a decent height and running clear. The weather was good, generally sunny with some heavy showers later in the day. Warm with a gently south easterly.

Some olives coming off between 10am and 12am but very few rising fish. Found two close to each other - waded in up to my eyeballs, covered one who rose for the fly - missed him and he spooked the other one.. After that not much found. Did catch fish in the faster water using tight line nymphing techniques and jigging a lure about. Not my preferred way to fish but needs must! Perseverance and trying different methods paid off today.

8 Trout

11 Trout

8 Trout, 4 Grayling

5 Trout

Water level very high, limits some of the usual places to fish, especially with fly. A few fish rising around midday. 2 rainbows caught and a few small browns.

2 Trout

Spin fishing Usk Reservoir Thursday 04 May 2023. Windy conditions with wave action causing discoloured water at shoreline. No fish seen and no strikes on lures used. I think the trout had gone to the "fish equivalent" of a pub for a pint and laughed at me. But I enjoyed the day.....

Looking at the weather forecast there was a brief window of opportunity today before the rain set in. River was low though, needs the rain. But in good nick. There was a stiff upstream breeze when we started but this dropped and the day turned soft and overcast with some drizzle later.

There were sporadic hatches through the day…. Large and medium olives, brook duns and willow flies and even a couple of mayflies. The typical large stoneflies were also about.

For us Usk fish are only catchable when they are rising. There were a few occasional risers but for an hour in one pool there was a lot of activity. Rose 7, hooked 4, landed zero! Must be getting rusty …. Or is it that we can’t say God save the Queen any more when a fish rises to a fly before tightening?

The usual size 14 dun parachutes did bring a couple to hand…. The first a gentle sipping rise from a 15 incher, the second a charging slash from a 17 incher. Not quite Penpont porkers but beautiful fish… a day that was par for the course on the Usk. A good start to the season…..

2 Trout

Fly fished the section for about six hours. The Redbrook gauge was reported at 0.97m. Saw several fish move on the lower section of the beat but not sure if resident or moving through.

No fish caught but an enjoyable day nonetheless