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Beat holds lots of big trout. Caught four very nice trout up to 3lb+ on Deer Hair Emerger and bead head nymphs. Plenty of water and strong currents but only a little rain over the day. Fished only a small part of the beat but had plenty of takes.

4 Trout

Great day to be back on the Usk, after a five year absence. Daughter and myself caught on nymphs fished on long leader, french style. Best fish 16 inches.

8 Trout

Strong cold wind all day made casting difficult. Despite this & some rain, there were a few hatches with fish rising at times - some big splashy rises, including a few within a rod length of where I was wading. Caught one trout, about 2lb, on a march brown, and lost another slightly smaller after it jumped a few times. The fish lower down the beat seemed completely disinterested in my march brown (& everything other fly I tried), whilst further up they took it without hesitation - possibly as the water was a bit faster there, so less time to examine it. Lovely beat, with lots of swallows swooping over the water.

1 Trout

An overnight campervan stopover and a days fishing booked a week ago could not have foreseen the lashing rain and near gale force winds that graced the day. One trout fell to a sawyers PTN fished New Zealand style, and a couple of slashing rises to the royal wulf sighter. Gave up just after midday, I need a new wading Jacket!

1 Trout

No fish on dry fly. Some flies on the water but no hatch.

The conditions were difficult with both anglers using light tackle casting into a strong headwind all day. Water levels were unusually low with some parts of the river being ankle deep where 1ft would have been ideal. This also meant that the water was cold for the time of year.
Both anglers fished a duo setup with an indicator Klinkhammer above various nymph patters (small Olive patterns - gold headed).
We managed 6 fish between us with two points of the day producing fish (around midday when the sun appeared and the last hour fishing from 6pm – fishing the runs near the bridge). Fish consisted of weights up to 1 lb. Not many fish seen throughout the day and felt because of the low waters they may have moved down river.
Not many rises seen and any hatches were very minimal because of the wind and temperature throughout the day.

6 Trout

A decent day with 7 to the net and 5 lost. A few LDO's around in the late morning but no significant hatch.

7 Trout

Chilly day and I fished from 12 to 3 . Sadly saw no hatching flies or rising fish and drew a blank. However this is a beautiful and eminently fishable stretch to which I will happily return.

Superb days fishing. Arrived at 11.30am to find fish rising. Good LDO hatch and some march brown and brook dun. Landed 6 nice trout including 3* 2lb trout and one lunker smashed the tippet. If I had not been so rusty then would have landed 12-15 trout - kept missing them and casting into strong upstream wind made things tricky. Pied fly catching, redstarts, bleating lambs and rolling hills.... ah Wales in the Spring can't be far from heaven!

6 Trout

Weather conditions were good, river was good - perhaps just a little high. We fished unsuccessfully with Nymphs whilst waiting for the hatch to start. This started at about 1:00pm and finish at 1:15pm, in that brief interlude we saw half a dozen fish rise one of which took my March Brown dry fly.
No idea why there was so little fly life - perhaps the frost the night before? Enjoyable beat to fish.

1 Trout