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No fish caught or seen all day. An abundance of fly life, Olives hatching all day, water a little coloured but clearing. Conditions not too difficult, sunshine a gentle breeze, the odd shower. Expected to see some fish activity.

Sunny with showers, a couple of heavy ones. Fished 2-5.30, think I might have been a little late for the hatch - a few olives still around but if like the Wye this week (been staying overlooking main river) the main hatch would have been earlier. 4 brown trout, 1 grayling caught and returned. Trout all on olive dries - 1 trout was rising to olives, 3 others rose from likely lies. Grayling caught later in afternoon, and lost two trout, on PTNs.

Had six fish and went home quite early, got snagged quite a lot and lost a lot of gear.

Arrived in sunshine at 9.30 to find one mad trout rising on Rocks. After ten minutes a nice fish of 1 3/4lb accepted a size 14 LDO nymph. River was steady at 0.6m all day but tea stained. In spite of a very heavy hatch of grannom no rise ensued. Spent a very pleasurable days exercise with the 15 footer but no sign of salmo salar. A few LDOS started to hatch at around 4.30 with a number of fish rising on the flats above woodstream. Caught a 3/4 pounder again on an LDO nymph. Just got in the car in time to avoid a deluge. A very atypical spring day on the Usk but very enjoyable.

No fish caught. Nevertheless river looked good. Thank you.

Tougher day than last weeks bonanza...cold downstream breeze didn't help. Ten fish between us, all to the goldhead nymph fished below the dry.

Fished during middle of the day in (warmish?) sunlight. Caught 4 brown trout, one a decent size (up to a lb). 3 trout on a dry fly (klinkhammer, black with grizzle hackle, around size 12/14) and one on a wet teal and black. Parked at the top as the road is deteriorating again, but others there risk the potholes and their suspension.

Got to the river early to have an introduction to it and found it unfishable. Chatted to the guys in the office later and offered me a wash-off if things didn't improve by lunchtime. Soldiered on became fishable around late afternoon but could only attempt wild browns. 3 returned around the 1.5lbs mark. Other rod looked at the water and went home!

1 trout caught + returned.

15 brown trout between 2 rods - up to 14" and all returned.