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Really great day to be out with warm sunshine but not for fishing... Didn't see any fish but lovely fly water.

Reasonable hatch of olives for an hour, but the sun quickly stopped the rise.

1 Trout

Sunny intervals and plenty of flies about and on the water but no rises. Failed on the dry fly so switched to a nymph and caught 1 trout. Very frustrating day.

1 Trout

3 trout biggest 9"all on nymphs. Very few fish rising. Hooked a good fish by the bridge which broke me. Unfortunately half way up lower beat were 2 cows who proceeded to gallop upstream. Not ideal for fishing or water quality. Nevertheless a lovely beat and I will definitely be back.

3 Trout

5 Trout, 4 Grayling

8 Trout

Fabulous trout river but conditions (very bright and sunny; river low and running gin clear) were against me today. I found some risers later in the day but these fish are not easily fooled. I didn't put any fish down but I just could not get the right presentation and the merest hint of drag meant the fish would not come up to my dry fly. Might try fishing downstream spiders next time.

Spent a nice 3 hours fishing this lovely stretch, saw one fish rise but nothing caught.

nil return

Typical Usk fishing - challenging. Fished from lower beat limit up as far as barracks. Others have posted re the slippery algae on rocks in the river on other beats - present here too, does not make for easy wading! Sporadic and short hatches throughout the day which petered out as soon as they started. James had 3 to 10" , I lost 3 including a clonker. All on dries. Cant remember the last time I blanked. Lovely countryside, bluebells out in the woods and what a picturesque beat up around the waterfalls.

3 Trout