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Sunny but still a bit cold. bit of a slow start tried spinning but no takes both of us fished the bottom with a popped up worm Then success 9 decent rainbows between us fished the A470 side as normal

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Feels like the new season has been a long time coming with what we have all gone through over the last 12 months. To be back out on the river amongst the early celandines and wood anenomes was certainly good for the soul….
It was a cold day – better when the sun emerged from behind the clouds but mostly it didn’t! However when it did about 1pm there was an absolute blizzard march brown hatch – not seen one of that intensity before. The fish went potty but by the time the fly was changed it was all over. Never mind, there was a trickle of olives – large dark and uprights – to make the fish look up occasionally. We brought two to hand – clonkers of 18 and 20 inches, and two more were lost to long distance catch and release. Grey parachute did the trick.
So a typical early season Usk day. There is some great water on this beat. Also a mink in residence who took a fish as big as he was! If anyone locally wants to know where the den is please contact me via the office – an invasive species.

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Very good fishing in challenging conditions - river down to its bare bones and little cloud cover. Sporadic trickle hatches of LDO brought a few fish to the surface and some good dry fly sport was had. Best fish 18” with several around 13-14”.

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One small trout caught at the confluence of bear 4 and 5

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One small brown trout caught on a small copper Mepps spinner returned no other bites after that

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Lovely day. Caught 2 good size WBT (16-20 inches) on PTN and 2 others got off. Moderate hatch around midday and fish rising in places but no luck with the dry fly.

2 Trout

We fished fly and flying Cs. Saw one fish move in the V which looked to be very fresh but was not interested in our offerings.