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River was low and clear, very difficult not to be seen.
Trout caught on nimphing with indicator.

1 Trout

I have to agree with the fisherman on this beat a few days ago - access is awful. There appears to be no effort made. I ruined a pair of waders scrambling through nettles, brambles and the occasional barbed wire fence. There is a lot of deep water in the beat, which means wading up the stream is impossible without a snorkel. I also agree that when you can get at the water it is great and looks very promising. I was hoping for a mayfly hatch, followed by a rise. But no luck. There were a few, many of them driven by the wind in the general direction of Leominster, but not a single rise. Such fish as I found were on a nymph, and I hooked one other which it would have been nice to see. And all the time in the background the big mill wheel slowly turning. Lovely beat; pity about the access.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

6 Trout

9 Trout

Beautiful stretch of the Usk. Conditions were good - a little rain early on, gusty and warm. Plenty of fast flowing patches into pools. Few rises, so nymphs (mostly olive) were used which caused little trouble to the fish. 1 good fish hooked but not landed due to HIN.

Lovely little wild stream, but VERY low with few fishale spots. However, we managed half a dozen little brownies and had great fun wading up the river shoulder to shoulder. Stunning wildlife - dippers, kingfishers, kites all around. Plenty of hatches, including LDO’s, Damsels and even Mayflies, which we copied with success. We’ll certainly return to the Edw and hopefully find the water level has returned to ‘normal’ and that a little management has been carried out (e.g, clearance of large broken off branches etc, which obstruct fishing spots)

6 Trout

Very pretty best buy a strong downstream wind,some activity at the lower section,but we are fairly incompetent so no fish caught.

no fish caught

No fish caught