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A quiet year for salmon on the Usk we understand. 3 trout took impossibly large flies but not the intended quarry.

3 Trout

Water levels still up and very murky. We had to search for the fish, but eventually found them on the upstream pegs. We used swim feeders, with either luncheon meat, halibut pellet or spicy sausage pellet on the hook.

7 Barbel, 9 Chub

A very tough day in tough conditions (very bright all day with a strong/cold easterly wind, lower than expected river levels running fairly clear. apart from a couple of hard earned chub nothing prior to the sun going down. Had 1 barbel around 6.5/7lb on last cast.
(my friend who was fishing with me in the same swim also had 3 barbel at the very end of the day with all the fish coming in the last hour or so). If we could have stayed longer I'm pretty sure we would have carried on catching..

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Dr Reynold Cowles from Earlysville, Virginia caught his first Wye salmon, 16lbs in the Cafn Pool, 20 mins into his first Spey casting lesson with guide Chris Price.

1 Salmon

Fish are small this time of year

2 Trout

Lower Llangoed 11 lbs hen on Gold Willie Gunn for Charles Tweedie

1 Salmon

Nyth and Tyrcelyn - Dr Cowles follows up with a superb 31lb (110cm) cock fish from the Turn Pool. Matt Tricks caught a further lovely 24lb cock fish (100cm) from the Boat Pool, and a 10lb hen fish from the Stone Catch pool. 2 more lost, (one another very big fish).

3 Salmon

8Lb cock fish, slightly coloured, from Beat 4 at 4:10pm on yellow & black tube. River very clear, 1'6" and dropping, sunny day.

1 Salmon

7lber on size 10 Willie Gunn

1 Salmon

Ray Oakley landed a 9lb hen fish on a home tied fly at Eardisley on 4 oct

1 Salmon