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Lots of sun, clear water 4C-10c on car computer. No flies, no trout seen, no salmon seen. One expensive picnic!

Lovely day's fishing with almost exactly the same result as when we fished this beat last year - a good-sized and fairly fresh hen salmon at about 6pm. It was caught on an ally's shrimp or something resembling that and was about 8lbs. River level was very low and things had not look promising in the morning. However, we started catching trout in the afternoon and then the Salmon at the end of the day in one of the pools at the bottom of the beat. The river is very well-mainatined here and particularly beautiful. Good pie at lunchtime in the Nantyffin pub down the road too.

1 Salmon, 3 Trout

Arrived at 8am with the river steady at 0.56m on the gauge. The predicted Arctic blast was under way with a strong downstream wind making casting challenging.
Saw a small red grilse then a larger specimen head and tail on Rock whilst tackling up. A 13lb colouring cock fish accepted my Golden Killer and was safely returned after a lively 15 min fight.
Persisted until 4pm in dazzlingly bright conditions and a strong northerly wind but didn't see another fish. Left for a warming cup of tea, once again counting my blessings.

1 Salmon

Weather much cooler than previously (10 C) and water temp 9C. Dry, cloudy, sunny spells. A steady hatch of olives from noon till around 3pm. A few grayling rising at bottom end of beat. Had 2 on dry parachute olive - 1lb 5oz and 1lb 4oz. Also 4 OOS trout, heaviest 2lb 8oz in Craig Llyn pool on dry fly. All fish returned.

4 Trout, 2 Grayling

I went back to this beat after fishing there on Sunday to try and find the end of my rod that I lost! Could not believe my luck when I found the olive tip section in the ferns along the bank.
The River was lower than Sunday and clear. Thought I would fish a couple of pools before returning to Sussex and again to my suprise caught a hen Salmon in the tail end of the flow on pool 5.
She was about 30" long, about 8lb and looking at the beautiful colours been in the river a few weeks. She was released and swam away. This is a great stretch of river to fish and will come back next year.
Thanks to the Wye and Usk staff who had mentioned my missing rod section to other anglers on the beat. Still can't believe it !

1 Salmon

The river had dropped by a few inches from our previous visit two days earlier. Best barbel was 8lbs 13ozs and the biggest chub was 4lbs 6ozs. Fish were caught on pellet.

13 Barbel, 4 Chub

Another lovely day, but fishing hard work with flow and colour dropping.

9 Barbel, 4 Chub

Initially slow but very good for last few hours. Barbel 7lb 13oz, 9lb 6oz, 9lb 10oz and 10lb 5oz.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

During an afternoon chat with a bailiff it appears the fishing was generally poor that day.
The weather was overcast with very little wind on the water surface but remained dry during the period in which I fished.
Fish caught were all rainbow trout of approx 2lb+ and were caught by ledgering with a floating worm.

6 Trout

Nice clean 13 1/2 lb hen taken on size 10 silver bodied Ally's (returned). River Usk in very good condition.

1 Salmon