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We'd booked salmon rods but with the water on the low side, decided to stick to trout fishing. There were sporadic rises through the day with occasional hatches of yellow mays and olives. We had some good fish on nymphs in the fast water and then at about 6pm the rise started with more fish coming to dries, mostly cdc olive emerger type patterns.
Great beat with easy access and outstanding quality of fish. 10 in all to the two rods ranging from 1lb to 2.75lb but many more lost in the faster water.

10 Trout

1st time fishing the Usk - Glan-yr-Afon.
River had a good level of water. Very bright and sunny?
One or two small fish rising but no takers. A few mayfly around and a lot of caddis in the afternoon. Tried nymphing to no avail. Tried some parachute adams amongst many others to no avail. All in all a beautiful stretch but I found it really difficult in sunny conditions. Need to work on my rivercraft. Great weekend though and will be back to the Usk to conquer! Stayed at the Old Rectory Hotel 4m away which was very nice and can highly recommend.

A few small trout were brought to hand and several lost on what is quite a physically demanding beat access wise, still a favoured beat none the less.
3 wbt to eight ins.

3 Trout

Perhaps a little ambitious to try and cover both beats in one go, only managed a few hundred yards of the middle beat missing and losing several on barbless before the climb back to the car.
1wbt.

1 Trout

no catch this day but a sunny day and the res was down a little

Hot and bright. Good olive hatch. No Mayfly as yet. Picky fish and few risers. Four netted largest over 2 pounds. Great day as ever.

4 Trout

Fished hard all day, river in reasonable condition, my son caught 3 Shad on SHFC. A lot of canoes all day long.
could not fish lower part of beat due to canoes picknicking on exposed gravels.

3 Other

Hot, sunny, windless day. Water very clear, odd fish rising but otherwise no general rise to speak of, lovely location.
Like a previous angler I encountered a large mink (with an attitude) it looked at me and then walked past literally at my feet completely unconcerned. reminder not to leave any fish unattended.
Did observe a Lamprey from the bank digging mid river in the gravel

A lovely stretch of flywater. I saw 2 salmon splashes in Cockpits pool in same place, so probably same fish. No takes, fished all the lies. However, beautiful day out.

3 Trout