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Blanked today. After 2 years away from the river due to Covid etc I was blundering around like a beginner frightening the fish. It was good to be back and I look forward to relearning the craft.

6 Trout

Despite overnight rain, no significant increase in water height. Weather dry and sunny with SE wind. No fish rising during day ( fished 11am - 4 pm). A couple of nervous takes to GRHE. One small fish returned. Hard work!

1 Trout

another perch in addition to the rainbows

6 Trout, 1 Other

4 Trout, 3 Grayling

So four brownies caught and returned and 4 more self released. Also 2 salmon spotted.
A lovely day but again, another smelly river I'm afraid, although it might have been something on the wind - lots of slurry tankers about on the roads.

4 Trout

1 Trout

2 Trout

A bit of scrambling around the lowest section of the beat with a tenkara rod. Good numbers of spooky parr. Many of them either missed the fly or I was too slow but a few came to the net. Makes a nice change from my usual fishing.

6 Trout

Fishing on an evening ticket I started from the bottom of the beat. This was my first visit to this beat and first time on the Usk in probably six years. The weather was increasingly bad with heavy rain and blustery winds. Regardless of the conditions there were a lot of flies coming off (BWO, Large Olive, etc) plus some spinners. A few steadily rising fish were found and I had takes on small grey wolf and CDC&Elk. Missed or lost every one. Blank.