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Very pleasant day even tho' I didn't catch anything. Usual friendly & helpful WUF & another good day with Colin (HL's gillie).

Fished this new beat from 12.30 to 2.30 in bright sun all the time. The water was crystal and one of the best Large Dark Olive Hatch I have seen anywhere was getting under way.

I fished a #14 oilve emerger pattern throughout. Lost a good rising fish just above the road bridge and missed another. The first fish to hand was another rising fish of 13.5".

By now the hatch was in full swing and olives were tripping down the riffles and into the pools where fish were queing up to take them from the water column and the surface. Plenty of fish disregarded my dry but the next fish landed was 14.5" and had my 3# rod bent double as he head for home in the roots.

The final two fish measured 12.5" and 14" and I missed one a lot larger. A wet fly would have cleaned up. I fished he bottom 2kms of the beat in two hours and I know from inspections that the next 2km are as good, if not better.

A beat for the thinking angler and well worth getting to know.

Very enjoyable fishing despite return journey from London - good to be on the river again. Weather sunny and 10 to 14 degrees C. River low and clear, water cold - 7.5 degrees C. Little or no hatch.
A sprinkling of olives observed between 1pm and 2pm. Caught 2 fish on dry parachute Adams, both around 1 pound, and missed two others. Spider waterhen bloa and gold head hare's ear nymph did not produce any takes.

A few fish showing. Lost one which threw the hook during acrobatics, whilst in the air it could be seen to be very silver and bigger than 5lbs. This fish took a toby.

A jack pike around 5lbs also liked the toby.

Most fishing effort was with the fly (various) but to no avail - a few touches but no hook ups.

A misty day til lunchtime then the sun broke through and the temperature went up to about 15 degrees. The first olives were seen at 11.30, very few, and the main hatch about 12.30, although quite small in number. A few fish rose for about half an hour.

One BT, about a pound or so, caught on a dry olive pattern and returned. Very quiet after about 2pm. Lovely day though and this is a wonderful Usk beat. I shall definitely book it again.

Nice warm and sunny day for a change. Caught 8 trout and 6 grayling on upstream nymphs. All fish were on the small size,best 12in. Friend Martin caught 6 Grayling with a couple around 16in.

What a fantastic addition to the WUF beats!

Easy wading, without the need of wading staff. Two 15" brownies fell to a peeping caddis pattern early in the day, followed by another four wildies on LDO imitations. A small LDO hatch brought a few fish on the surface and we seemed to be in the right place at the right time. Biggest fish measured 16.5".

A superb day! Who said anything about bad luck on Friday the 13th?

I caught 5 brown trout weighing up to 1lb, all returned saftley.

6 trout ?lb to 1lb lost a few too. Looks very interesting salmon water.

Weather: sunny with broken cloud. Water: fast flowing and slighly coloured. Two trout taken on a March Brown nymph, fished on a sinking leader,about 12ozs each. Taken in the slower water down stream of the Bridge pool. A very pleasant few hours fishing.