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Arrived at 7.00 a.m. River 0.9m on gauge carrying some colour but very fishable. Spectacular thunderstorm at 8.30am leaving river a chocolate mess and 5cm higher. Fished till lunchtime without a sign, then home for a drink in the sun and the footie.'till next time.

An earlier call at the Garren resulted in a change of plan. It was the colour of hot chocolate! This little brook proved to be a really interesting alternative. I enjoyed a couple of hours good, challenging sport and was thankful I'd packed my 5 foot rod. No sign of fish on the surface. Three beautiful small trout (5"-6") came to a weighted GRHE.

17 trout and grayling taken, 6 of which were up to 2lbs in weight. Not much surface activity, mainly caught on bug patterns.

18 Barbel to 9Lbs.
2 Chub to 4Lbs

Good conditions, warm and thundery and stream in very good nick, a good level and very clear. However fishing was hard work mainly due to poor accessibility - barbed wire fences, low tree canopy, dense undergrowth, fallen trees etc. Not sure I'd go this time of year again. Started at 1130, but fish didn't really start moving til 5pm in spite of there still being mayfly about. Finished with 8 between us up to 9" mainly on Adams or pheasant tail.

A re-arranged day after a wash-off earier in the season - with thanks to the Booking Office for this excellent service!

River around 1'3" and a little coloured after overnight rain. 6 trout between 2 anglers, all on the mid section: 4 on downstream numph, one on dry and one on suspended nymph. Our first time on the Usk - we learned a lot and we'll be back for more!

We arrived at 8.30 am, just about the same time as the rain, which at times was the heaviest I've ever experienced. It appears we caught the edge of the storm that was to cause heavy flooding in the Midlands & beyond.
The day of extremes continued with a very hot sunny afternoon.
We moved around but, for the first time, struggled for fish as the river sped up, coloured and rose slightly, eventually ending up with just 7 barbel, including a nice broad, deep fish of about 9 to 9 1/2 lbs and a few small chub. Hopefully next time the weather will be kinder.

Fished peg 2 from early morning until approx 2:00pm when all my bait was used up! During the day I landed 7 barbel to 10lb 6oz ( a personal best. All other barbel were in the 7-8lb stamp. Also had 3 decent size chub. All caught during torrential rainstorm. Don very helpful and informative. Can't wait to go back.

15 barbel, 1 chub all caught on pellet.

My first time on this beat and it is a wonderful location - but I would recommend you travel light as it is quite a hike from the top of the hill.

I found the swim I would have liked to fish, but it was impossible in the conditions on the day.

It had rained heavily overnight and mud from the fields had definitely in to the river - it was well up, running like a train and a dark chocolate brown in colour.

I found a couple of suitable swims, but didn't manage a fish in the first - bite detection was very difficult as there was a lot of debris in the river.

After the move I managed to land 3 decent chub (2 over 5lbs) and finally 4 barbel - the largest of which was just under 10lb.

Had to switch to small (8ml) elipse pellets to get any interest - as usual, 2 glued to a hair-rig with micro pellets in a block-end Drennan flat-back feeder.

Despite very testing fishing conditions and a bit of a treck to and from the car, I will definitely be back - ideally when the river is low and the bottom island is accessible.