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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

Did not fish.

Caught only one nice brown trout of 13 inch. The other rod blanked. Saw a female goosander with 6 youngsters at Aberbran bridge at the downstream end of the beat. I will report that at the applicable website.

4 browns (6-12") caught on nymph. 1 other lost(possibly the biggest of the day) on balloon caddis. Cold & windy conditions, with sporadic hatches of grannom & LDO between the rain squalls. Very few fish seen rising. Only fished the right bank, top half of the beat (between 11.30-18.30). No signage demarcating the beat limits, and not that clear from the map either.

15 brown trout caught and released. 5 on dries, 10 on nymphs - best fish 2.75 lbs. Cold wind stifled hatches and very few fish seen to rise but fish feeding lower down, the occasional fish would come up to take a dry. River in excellent condition.

The river was in fine fettle even if the weather was a bit wet and blustery. Between Bob and Naithan they managed 9 fish mostly around the 1/2 pound mark. A patch hatch or olives during the afternoon brought up a few fish in dries.