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5 Trout

1 Trout

Bit of a recce for potential seatrout night fishing .
Good to see fish are moving up as I disturbed a 5-6 Lb fish out in the open in a temporary lie in only 1ft of water.
3 trout from the same place in the same pool in 3 casts !

30 Trout

I didn,t catch but helped another angler to land a stale fish around the 10lb mark, strangely this fish had some sort of lice on dorsal fin
Saw fish up in big pool

arrived midday as here all weekend. some swims are un fishable due to mud Bank to slippery. only about 6 swins fishable.

1 Barbel, 5 Chub

2 Barbel, 11 Chub

4 Trout

2 Trout

Blanked! One of those days unfortunately with very little hatching, and most of the fish switched off. The only real hatch was of tiny Caenis in the late afternoon - a few small trout did rise to them but didn't see any bigger ones, I guess that was just sub-optimal foraging for them. Had to work very hard for about half a dozen bites, mostly on tiny size 20 dry flies to try and match but very difficult just getting an offer, and then even harder to hook them! Tried nymphs too, couple of half-hearted bites there that didn't stick either. I waited until evening in the hope that something would start but that was even slower - maybe too cool, it was a rather cold day for summer. Still great fun though, and lovely just being there despite the slow fishing - another very beautiful Usk beat. Good to see the river at a decent level now too. I will have to try it again another time!

Fished the whole beat 3pm to 7pm, two rods booked. Saw very few rises, no takes to a nymph, two takes on the dry, small fish and did not hook either properly.
Car parking is a little confusing as appears to be a private space. I did not on door of cottage to check but no response.