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River in great condition now. Salmon showing on all the beats. Bright sunshine didn't help yesterday but Tim Kelly hooked a lost a good fish on beat 6. Two weeks left so more fish expected.

Very enjoyable day fishing a new beat (for me) on the Usk. Although the river was low there's a good variety of water available with classical pools, fast riffles and glides. Reasonable amount of upwings on the water but not many fish rising, most likely due to the bright sun. Caught fish from the riffles on either a #16 tungsten GHRE or #16 brown quill nymph. Varying sizes from palm of your hand stuff to a couple of fish in the 1.5lb range. Very good access and easy wading. Already looking forward to visiting again next season!

10 Trout

Great weekend.

4 Trout, 2 Grayling

Weather misty till 11 'then the sun pushed though for the start of a glorious day. It was little Dan's first day fishing a river, a slow start but he was shaping up well by the end of the day. He made his customary offerings to the tree gods with half his fly box but we have all been there. Paul Suter was demonstrating the finer points of tenkara to Anthony Wood who was seriously thinking of chopping in is sage rods after only one hour. Getting back to business, the go to flies for the day were nymphs - holy grail light colour only copper headed hairs ear size 16 elk hair emerger and size 18 klinkhammer in smutty white. Looking forward to the next Sportfish training day.

2 Trout, 11 Grayling, 1 Chub

2 fish taken. My daughter's first fishing trip. Saw 3 fish eating birds.

2 Trout

1 Trout

Sliding ledgers...

1 Trout

Small brown trout on fly. Returned fish. Undersize.

1 Trout

Worm from the garden to catch 5 trout. Fished from 7-7 but caught all 5 between 12-15:30.

5 Trout

Another dry and bright day but with more breeze and no hatches to speak of. Nymphs proving more successful than dry patterns although fish were still taken on dry patterns when very occasional rises spotted.

4 Trout, 5 Grayling