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With the water lower than hoped (just over 1ft) Salmon fishing difficult, fished through regardless, nothing to report.
In the afternoon got out the trout rod out and took 8 trout up to a pound on dries, mainly Sedge emerging patterns but some joy on Mayflies too.

8 Trout

Nil catch.

River in good condition. Not the warmest of days and only a few flies coming off around lunchtime. Fished the French leader for the first few hrs and it produced 5 lovely trout the biggest being 17". Then the fish started to rise in the junction pool so I swapped to dry fly and took 2 small trout and missed about 4 others. The rise finished as quick as it started, so I prospected with the klink n dink for the last hr that produced a beautiful fish to 21". Good day all round.

9 Trout

Fished hard all morning without a glimpse of a fish, water atill merky after yesterday's rain. As the sun got stronger I was rather distracted by the Mayfly hatch which produced a series of good fish, the best of which was about 1lb 4oz. At 4.30 a fresh fish estimated at 15lb showed at the bottom of the Rectory pool, and then several others showed over the next hour, had one adrenalin rush when a trout took me as the fly swung over a position where an 8lb fresh fish had shown seconds before.

7 Trout

Fantastic beat with lots of different features, good riffles and long dry flats. Tough going in the morning but good show of risers late into the evening around 7pm. Had several takes on various dry flys but fish were very suspicious and spat out the fly as soon as mouthed resulting in no takes. Great day out on the Usk.

Fished with a dry midge. Hooked but failed to land a 5 inch brownie. Spotted a mink on the southern bank.

Fished with a dry midge and took a brownie of 6in and 10in both returned. Very clear water.

2 Trout

No salmon caught but a couple seen (Maddox and Vanstone). I did manage to catch my first shad!

My first venture on the wild streams; what a day. Weather conditions were just perfect and there was a decent hatch of mayfly and brook dunns. Nothing rising in the morning so stuck with a nymph until lunchtime, taking 10 trout up to 12". At one point I took 3 in 4 casts. Fish started to rise after lunch; they weren't interested in the mayfly but 4 more trout to 12" succumbed to an adams. A big thankyou to WUF and a huge thumbs up to my guide Frank Williams whose knowledge and advice was invaluable.

14 Trout

Two common carp. 1 X 19LB, 1 X 10.4LB.

2 Other