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Lovely fresh fish took on an Allys shrimp. Fantastic battle on fly gear and she went back strong. Measured at approximately 21lb.

1 Salmon

Low, cold (8.1C), clear water and a bright cloudless sky. Bit of a waste of time from a fishing point of view but nice to get out on the river on a lovely spring day.

With bright sunshine and (slightly) warmer temperatures I thought things might get a bit easier. Wrong. Very little insect activity, the Summer hotspots seemingly empty and a cold gusty breeze all made it tricky. I did manage to scratch out four smallish trout by the end of the day, all on a single small nymph. A+ for effort.

4 Trout

Sunny day and a bit of colour in the water. Lost a good fish in the vanstone on a willie Gunn.

Tried numph dryfly combination after seeing the odd LDO hatching and a couple of fish rise but nothing until 1.15ish when the March Browns appeared and the fish started rising caught a couple of nice 16 and 18 inch browns and then it was all over. not so many flies and the fish went back to sleep.

2 Trout

A lovely spring day on the beautiful R. Usk.
All on a dry jingler between 11 - 2pm.

15 Trout

Brilliant days fishing. Plenty of bites and both limited out by 5pm. Bait was worm on the bottom.

8 Trout

Beautiful day, despite the cold wind, 3 Grayling

3 Grayling

2 Trout

Not as cold today but still cold. Still no insects to speak of. So another day of picking locks with cold fingers. All the Summer hotspots seemingly devoid of fish but I did manage 5 fish including a couple of better ones, pretty much all of them from deeper slower channels in the edge, all of them to a small single nymph.

5 Trout