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Water too high and coloured to fish, so I walked the beat instead

Spent 10 hours ,tried salmon eggs,power baits,spooners,soft baits…..zero bites…i wonder are they stocked?

No luck- River a touch high

Of the bottom fishing, caught only one rainbow and kept for dinner :)

1 Trout

One LDR and a few takes, very muddy and flooded.

4 Trout

Fished for a few of hours. Extremely windy. Nothing cought or seen.

0 fish
Missed x3
fly from the bank
fish missed were 4-5 foot down

On the water from 10 until 3. All pools visited. One bite and one rise seen. Some heavy rain followed by sun but no hatches . Water fast and clear to about 18". Gurneys of Ledbury chicken and ham pie thoroughly recommended though. Look forward to trying this beat when the water is a bit lower.

Beautiful and varied beat, and sufficiently far up the Usk system to run reasonably low and clear even when the river is a bit high on the Brecon gauge.

Walked all the way to the bottom of the beat and immediately caught two good trout on orange tag tungsten nymphs just upstream of the bridge, one just over 2lb, the other just under. Fighting very fit! Proceeded upstream from there, and sporadic hatches of March Browns appeared on the some of shallowish flats around 1300-1430, but did not see a single rise to them despite watching patiently and carefully. Carried on nymphing and caught a further 10 inch trout. Tried spiders right in front of Penpont House at the upper end of the beat and had a pluck but no fish.

3 Trout