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All but two fish succumbed to nymphs - dark olive perdigon, pink beaded +. Dry was JGE s.16 during extensive grannom hatch, although very few fish rising. V difficult windy conditions. Great to be back on the river though.

6 Trout, 5 Grayling

Just me fishing. Some flies hatching late morning when I arrived, but that quickly shut down as a strong gale came down the valley from the north, The Met Office weather forecast was completely wrong - instead of light southwesterly wind and lots of drizzle it was bone dry but with a howling northerly. That's upland weather though I guess, really lucked out. I had to switch to a #6 and even that was hard to get out most of the time. No rises all day then, but managed to winkle out two on wet flies - probably when the fly was right in their face, very hard work! One big highlight in the afternoon though - a large salmon breached only about 12ft from me like a whale, porpoised from head to tail. Definitely a salmon - steel grey back and could see the indented tail. Believe another salmon - maybe the same fish - boiled by a rock a bit further up 20 minutes later. Amazing, first spring-run salmon I have seen on the Usk. Lovely to see the swallows and sand martins back too, also pairs of red kite, sandpiper and two noisy osystercatchers! Always something nice to see up here even when the fishing is slow, thanks again!

2 Trout

4 fish, all on bottom, worm

4 Trout

Hard work. Virtually no fly, and only an occasional rising fish. Cool, stiff wind didn’t help!

3 Trout

Another great 2 hr's fishing the top pool. 11.30 till 1.30. 3 on nymph's. 4 on dry March browns.
Superb sport

6 Trout, 1 Grayling

Worm

5 Trout

Couple of bites through the day but nothing landed

Had a good go for the Salmon on the fly on the upper part of the beat and spinner in the Rectory pool. Conditions look very good. No salmon seen but plenty of trout rising for the afternoon hatches.
One decent trout of about 1lbs took a fancy to the spinner.

1 Trout

Great relaxing small stream day as a novice angler. Chuffed to catch a grayling, a fish at last after 3 other outings! However, no evidence of trout being present, rises etc. River very clear, with plenty of water but not fast flowing. Next stop with Fishing Passport-Penpont.

1 Grayling

10 x trout to 16 inches, dry flies and spiders during dark olives and March brown hatches

10 Trout