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Great location, water clear and falling following heavy rain earlier in the week, weather sunny but cool, steady gentle rises mid morning to mid afternoon.
Landed four brown trout from 1/2 lb to a beautiful 1lb+ fish, all in good condition small emergers / dry flies.
Two fish taken.

1 x Barbel 7lb, 1 x Chub 5.5lb

One trout caught.

We managed to get the car down to the lower car park which saved a walk! We started fishing the first two swims by the pillars but struggled to get any bites. We also fished opposite the islands were the flow is not so much of a boil but again no bites. We tried the pellet, meat and sweetcorn in the end we went back to the pillars when the land owner came along and told us the swims were right down the other end of the venue!!!! This was about 4.30 so we decided to fish the last hour down the bottom and ended up with a barbel of around 8lb, next time we will know!!! But yet again a stunning location we have had an excellent couple of days we were blessed with the weather and cant wait till next time. Many thanks to the Wye and Usk Foundation.
One thing I would like to say is for anglers to be extremely careful with the banks, I did slip! I just got to the top of the bank and my feet went away from me a slid all the way to the bottom luckily there was a ledge where I stopped just before the waters edge !!!! Wouldn't have wanted to go in, very scary.

Good river condition and good weather but no trout caught. One salmon jumped, one cormorant seen. Despite that, a good day out. Thanks.

Didn't touch or see a thing unfortunately.

Blank, no fish seen or felt. River very high but clear, not a wash out.

A beautiful autumnal day and perfect conditions for salmon, with high water and plenty of hiding places. Only problem was there wasn't a fish of any kind in evidence. It was totally dead. I caught a poacher too, a young fellow with his girlfriend. Hardly seems to matter though as there were no fish.

1 x grilse (about 4/5lbs) on lower flats. Caught on flying c.
Water height was perfect and slightly coloured.

Cold start to a sunny but windy day. Good directions etc to the beat, easy access to the water. Started at the lower limit and had a fish each around 13" in the first half hour, both on beaded nymph - immaculately conditioned. We made our way upstream but struggled to fish in the chosen way due to the strong downstream wind. Upstream of the parking another couple of fish were caught from the fast water. After lunch we made our way upstream of the road bridge hopeful for some peace and quiet if anything else, and we found a nice run out of the wind with a few fish rising. Here 9 fish were caught to approx 15" (2 taken), lovely fishing and made the 2nd rod very happy. Although out of the wind, there was the invasive hustle and bustle of lawnmowers, distant music, sporadic shouting, and vehicles that belong on a race track consistently whipping up and down the A40. Productive penultimate day of the trout season totalling 13 fish, very enjoyable with DZ, but the noise (especially the A40) stripped it of the romance expected when trout fishing the Usk.