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First time to ever fish the Usk. booked this total blind,so it was more of a adventure. Parked at car park 2, on the bridge, fish downstream czeph nymphing,a few fast pools and started catching straight away,not big,,say 10/12 inch fish,but great...after 2/3 runs below bridge it starts getting impossible to fish, slow deep pools over bed rock, once you're out of the wood it opens up and gets better, the water was low,,but fish in most of the fast runs,,most small best went 14 inches. Not a lot rising which was disappointed as flies everywhere. Best nymph was a coffee coloured tungsten ptn.
Went as far as big waterfall then walked back to car...to refuel and have a drink.looked at map and wanted to fish upstream left bank above bridge but wasn't great here,,and hard to get in the water,so called it a day.possibly should have gone lower down.not a soul around.

11 Trout

4 Trout

5 Trout

5 grayling to 12", 4 trout to 10"' one salmon parr. Tried a variety of dry flies but no takers so switched to nymphs with fish coming to GRHE, beadhead ptn and red tag. Nice to see a salmon heading upstream and a brief glimpse of an otter.

4 Trout, 5 Grayling, 1 Other

5 Trout

Fished 1700-2000. Some mayfly when I arived, and more as the evening progressed. A good ev at first. evening rise, mainly small fish. After 45 mins of my parachute adams being ignored totally, I switched to a medium sized mayfly. For 45 mins this rose fish every few casts, but I couldn't hook any. I changed to other mayflies, which were ignored. The one I hooked was on the original grey mayfly, but I couldn't match its black-and-white striped body. When I landed it, after quite a fight, I was surprised to find it barely legal. As it was overcast, the light had gone soon after eight. A great evening. River very low.

1 Trout

4 trout caught on dry flies . good hatch of sedges and fish rising freely .good hard fighting rainbows

4 Trout

Spent a very pleasant couple of hours at Aberbaiden (Sunday 28th May pm). Quite a few takes, with two wild brown trout caught (about 6 and 10 inches long) on Gold Head PTN (in a duo with a Klinkhammer). Most takes from top pool. Both fish returned.

2 Trout

Superb looking beat. A few mayfly hatching along with other insect life. Only saw a few rises, still very warm and the river low. Great stretch of river, will definitely return