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2 takes and 1 hooked and lost this evening a small hitched tube

Great day on the river but sadly no salmon. My beginners luck didn’t hold. Beautiful water and mostly sunny day. Although I did manage to catch a 1lb trout on a small cascade fly. Met a fellow angler on the bank who gave me some good advice and pointed me in the right direction - Thank you Charles.

1 Trout

2 Trout

A salmon of 12 lb from beat 5 on a flying C. Saw a few fish moving although the general feel was that there were not that many fish in the river. Can you please rewrite the directions to the pools, we wasted an hour trying to find them , particularly the right hand bank of beat 5 which bore no relation to the instructions given.

WUF Note : Congratulations on the salmon and thank you for the feedback on the directions. Whilst this is the first time we have heard of anyone having difficulty in finding Beat 5, we have looked at the information supplied and made improvement where necessary.

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Bright sun and a fierce downstream wind, so hard work. Fishing dries through the shaded areas under trees proved most successful. Lots of nips and tugs on small nymphs, but couldn't connect. All fish safely returned.

4 Trout

River level good and water clear. The day was generally bright and sunny but with a steady breeze blowing in from the west.
Quite a few sporadic hatches (March Brown) throughout the day with the odd trout rising occasionally.
Netted a WBT at the lower end of the beat on an Olive Klinkhammer. Three more good takes at the top end of the beat.
My friend caught two in the upper ripples of the section.
Towards the end of our session (3pm’ish), quite a hatch of March Browns brought the trout alive. He switched to the nearest fly he had that resembled the hatch and hooked one almost immediately. It threw the hook after quite an aerobatic display!
A lovely beat on a very picturesque part of the Usk with Pen-y-Fan as a backdrop. Will certainly return on another occasion.
All fish returned safely.

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Beautiful day on the river. Its a lovely spot with plenty of variation however today the water level was low and it was a fairly bright day. I didn't catch anything or see much fish movement however I suspect it was my lack of skill and experience that defeated me on the day.

Fished for a couple of hours on Thursday 10 . conditions were almost ideal water was clear and the weather has cooled from the highs of the Bank holiday. There was a lot of insect activity throughout the stretch I fished. The only thing missing was the fish. There was no sight or sound throughout the two hour fishing. I changed flies and methods but to no avail. Poor catches are part of angling but such lack of fish activity in these conditions was very disappointing.

Beautiful location but no fish spied or caught all day, although we both had to leave before the evening. Neither nymphing or prospecting with a dry fly worked for us today.

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