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Great day. Few grannom and midges trickling off in the morning and odd fish rising in pool tails, things got going when the cloud came over around 12.50 and a trickle hatch gradually turned in to a decent stream of upwings by 1.30....LBD's, LDO's and few Olive Uprights, the odd iron blue . The fish rose hard in the pool tails (but were very sensitive to lining/drag) until the hail started around 14.00.

After it eased at 14.45, the odd fly was still coming off till 15.30 and a few fish rising. Best fish of the day was a beautifully marked 2lb 4ozer, 3 others were around 1.5lb, 2 around the pound and 1 of 12oz. All fish fell to dry, 2 were lost on nymph.

7 Trout

3 Trout

1 rainbow trout on spinner and 1 3lb brown trout on worm

2 Trout

2 Trout

Tough day on the river. Brief hatch at 14:00 brought a few fish to the surface. Nymphing in faster water later in the afternoon brought one trout to the net which was released.

1 Trout

Two Brown trout both returned

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1 brown trout on worm

1 Trout

3 Trout

River very low - 0.22 on the NRW Trallong gauge, but at least it is cold. Shower at midday washed a month's worth of road dust into the river so it turned murky but that didn't seem to bother the trout. Sporadic rises, occasional upwinged flies but no sustained hatch. Two very good trout in dries. The upper Usk holds big trout, but not big numbers of trout, I think. A pair of goosander seen flying downstream. This is a very beautiful beat.

2 Trout

Hour and a half early afternoon, just as the rain came and temperatures dropped. Only a few rises seen, and my heavy hands spooked them all.