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A thoroughly enjoyable day on one of the very few beats I have returned to multiple times. Such a picturesque beat with plenty of variety of water to fish. Lots of insect life but the mayflies appear to have dwindled. Few rising so the majority caught on nymphs. Shame to have to challenge someone with a spinning rod just below the bridge. They soon cleared off but just to make you aware. I have the details of the sign written vehicle if Wye&Usk wish to pursue.

7 Trout

An evening fishing the Usk for the first time this year. The river here does shift around a bit but the winter floods have changed things a lot especially towards the bottom end. New deep pots have appeared which may well hold salmon in the right conditions. The enormous black Poplar tree trunk in the river is a testament to the force of the water at the time. A great beat for bird life this with lots of sandpipers, plovers, sand martins and kingfishers. Fishing was good too. Two on the nymph before the rise began at around 8.30. Three more to small emergers and several lost.

5 Trout

1 Minnow fairly caught on size 18 dry fly.
The beat is getting very overgrown with backside vegetation so fishing can be difficult. Not much can be done about that except wade through the nettles ect. One word of warning in the field you have to cross there are bullocks which may be a bit intimidating.
There was very little hatching so only an occasional fish rising. I suspect we are between fly seasons. The main sedge hatch has not yet started and there were no significant hatches of upwing flies. The main fly in evidence were tiny midges. I managed to get 3 or 4 fish to rise to a dry fly and caught one of them. It was not a very large trout. There were no grayling in evidence.

1 Trout, 1 Other

The half inch of rain on Friday evening hasn't made a lot of difference with the water level still very low. Humid overcast conditions,a few small olives hatching in the morning and a few Mayfly around lunch time. Fished Tenkara and size 12 killer kebari. 6 trout 8 to 12 inches.

6 Trout

Escaped for a couple of hours late this afternoon after being stuck at home due to a heavy mornings rain and a stint on the wife's job list. Managed to fool 5 of various sizes all on black klinkhammers, all safely returned. Missed loads of takes I think it's my age. What a joy to find easy parking and a lacking of barbed wire.

5 Trout

Nothing caught today, I did see three rises so they are there.

Saw two salmon! Caught one chub and one small roach.

1 Chub, 1 Other

Did not fish, very little flow in stream and overgrown

Warm, mixed skies, pretty still, with a good amount of insect life around. A few mayfly stragglers, but mainly on to the BWOs/other small upwings now. Dries, nymphs and small streamers all caught, mostly 8" ish, a couple up to 12", all feisty fish in great condition. Photo a typical example - bright colours and distinct remaining parr makrs. An enchanting mallard family company and regular flypasts from the kingfisher capped a wonderful afternoon and evening.

25 Trout

Weather perfect, upwings on water and nothing rising to them. in fact it was the worst day I've had on the Lugg but nice to be out after Lockdown. will wait for welsh rivers to open up for the English as I feel there's more bang for your buck on the Wye and Usk.

3 Trout, 4 Grayling