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weather incredibly hot and bright so fishing difficult ,1 trout about 8 inches caught last thing on small red spinner

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Hot day, river levels reasonable but we felt that an additional 6" or so would have made the conditions pretty much perfect. Water clear.
We had come the night before to do a reccie and witnessed a good Brook Dun hatch and the river come alive between 8-9.30pm. Plenty of fish in the upper 'car park' pool.
Parking at the bottom of the field access, we started at around 9am. The two of us went down to the lowest pool first. The water further down from the pool to the bridge was accessible in one or two spots. The glides were deep, the flow was slow and the floor, a flagstone bedrock bottom covered in brown algae, looked potentially hazardous so we gave that a miss. Nymph fished the pockets and runs up the lower pool and got the best fish of the day - 2 x 2+lb browns. Both in perfect condition and fighting fit, plus other smaller browns.
Middle riffle produced a small trout around 6" and a small Salmon parr. The upper pool didn't produce anything sadly to either dry or czech nymph. You can't fish the riffle above as that is in the Dinas stretch as maked on the map.

The evening saw the previous evening's hatch begin dropping but the expected mad feed on spents didn't materialise as we hoped. Caught one more small trout and got smashed on a very decent fish on dry (Adams and March Brown). Saw some 1/2lb fish feeding on the nearside bank under the trees around mid afternoon, some with the reported white fungus on their snouts. They all seemed healthy and were very happy supping midges and spent Brook Duns off the surface.
Lovely piece of water, will come again. Thank you W&U for making this water available.

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I suppose it is hard to have a blistering hot day and fish. We tried every method but failed absolutely. Saw a few fish but they were not feeding and they were all small.
Have not fished this water since it was split with Dinas and probably prefer fishing a longer beat. As always it is a joy to be on the Usk regardless of catch and despite having just come back from the prolific waters of New Hampshire.

Slightly coloured water. Sporadic fish topping. Prospected with elk hair caddis for 6 fish to 2 lbs

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Leaving London by car on a Bank Holiday weekend proved to be a disaster with much of the day spent in gridlocked traffic on the M25 and M4. We eventually arrived just after 5.30pm and had about an hour and a half to spare. Pleasant looking beat, gorgeous looking farm house. I have never had much success in the evenings on any river (in the period after the sun goes down behind the hills) so I was a little anxious... heightened by an almost complete absence of any surface feeding activity other than a sporadic rise or two, which never seemed to achieve any enthusiastic consistency. There were one or two mayfly about but they were ignored and allowed to drift and lift off gracefully from the water. Two fish hooked: one 'intentionally' on a nymph and the other 'unintentionally' when the fish took a dry at the end of the drift, when it was skating across the current just as I commenced my forward cast - but both were lost. I'll catch the train next year!

Water low and the sun high, but there were plenty of trout moving, easy to spot in the shallow water. They were taking too in the more rippled areas, particularly in the evening, though I didn't manage to contact any of the better fish. Small PT nymphs and the like worked well. I saw two or three sizable fish with fungus growth on their heads, one looking very sick - should we be worried?

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