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The three of us had a great day, nice stretch of water especially beats 2 and 6 if fishing for salmon on the fly. The rest of the water seemed more suited to spinning on the day we visited. One fish seen pushing through on beat 6 in the morning and one in the evening. Very impressed by the WUF team, very helpful, thank you.

WUF note - The access down the farm track to the lower part of Beat 6 has now been closed.

2 Trout, 1 Barbel

Fishing was good nice sunny day, water looked clean. I caught 3 fish on worm 2 around 1.5lbs and one around 2lbs.

5 Trout

3 Trout

2 Trout

1 Trout

Nothing to report salmon wise but my mate had 4 trout and 4 grayling.

3 Trout

Fished for around four hours but didn't see any activity. River running very clear.

Another lovely day albeit with slight, fresh downstream breeze. Saw odd rise (maybe 2 or 3 all day) but we expected more given previous day (on another beat). There was also a flush hatch of March Brown at around 12.45pm (not LDOs surprisingly of which there were very few) but if the fish were taking these it was occurring sub-surface. Great to see them though. My experience (fishing once or twice each year in early season) is that this fly is making something of a comeback on the Usk. Does anyone share that view? Pair of Goosander and one Cormorant shared beat with us and doubtless fished better.

Lovely day. Warm and sunny and water 9 degrees C. A mini LDO hatch at about 11am - 13:00. Some fish rising. Landed one nice trout although in poor condition following the sustained high flows. I suspect he floods have scoured out the invertebrates a little resulting in a bit less fly life around than usual, but I have no doubt the river will recovery quickly and flooding is vital natural process in any case with many benefits to the river. The trout caught was on a CDC dry fly dun - saw him rise and then woomph! Great to be back on the water and what a magnificent river!

1 Trout