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Very wet day, river very coloured, clay banks downright nasty and slippery. Wading fine underfoot but coloured water meant only shallow sections could be waded safely. 15 small trout on goldheads, lots of follows on lifting. Nothing rising but easy to believe lots of trout when there is a hatch. Many trees down across the river and a lot of rubish in the water meaning a lot of bank climbing in and out of the river.

Water very coloured. No Salmon seen or caught. Lovely beat and excellent service from the Foundation.

I have been fishing 3 times and have caught rainbow trout, the biggest was 4lbs 3oz, caught them on worm.

2 trout both on 5inch salmon flies no salmon.

15 brown trout caught, all released - largest fish about 1.25 lbs. 12 caught on dries, 3 on nymphs. Despite the fairly persistent rain, fish were rising fairly regularly during the middle of the day. The river looked in good condition despite the rain.

No fish caught. Weather quite cold and breezy with no apparrent fly life or fish activity. Stayed for only approx 90 mins due to weather.

8 x trout 6-15 inches, various spiders and Dark Olive Sparkle Dun. A short but busy large dark olive hatch on a day of cold winds and showers. And for 10 minutes I played a really nice big trout, hooked on the point with a Hare's Lug and Plover, which after all sorts of acrobatics unexpectedly dropped off at the last moment. Didn't Isaac Walton say something about what you never had, you cannot consider lost? Not much of a consolation!

Glan Usk has some lovely water and looked perfect. Weather unpredictable - sunshine and squally showers, which meant hatches unpredictable. Some large dark olives, olive uprights and medium olives, best early afternoon. Occasional members of march brown family seen but not convinced are march browns so a prisoner taken for identification purposes. Typical early season Usk fishing - challenging - but 6 fish caught between PB, JB and JS. JS had the best - a plump fish 15". Just as we were thinking about finishing a lovely fresh silver tourist was desporting herself.

Tried all sorts of dry and wet flies but very few signs of fish in the lower and upper scetions. Water clear but very fast. Missed two bites in the slower centre section of the beat where a few rises were observed before I obviously scared them away. Tested my limited skills to the max and left a good few flies in the trees but I suspect success here would be very satisfying.

fished from 12.00pm to 4.00pm no fish caught , no fish seen, all the gear no idea, my hat goes off to all of you fly fisherman, it is so hard, i have fished all my life,barbel and chub,took up fly fishing for the close season a few years ago, its taken over my life,all i want to do now is fly fish,i will get it right,loved it