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A lovely day on the river with lots of flylife but a rather dry river. One small brownie caught on a size 14 yellow bodied white wing emerger [apologies, can't remember the name]. Enjoied meeting Jean Williams for the first time [thanks for the chocolate biscuits, Jean]. Only saw 2-3 other rises all day. A better day fishwise yesterday on Upper Grywne Fawr. Again a low river [despite rain the day before] but managed a one and a half pound brownie on a size 16 Red Tag. Some large mayfies about.

Caught 8 brown trout between us, all about 4 - 6 inch tiddlers. Good hatch of a wide variety of flies. Lots of tiny bwo, plenty of mayflies and some of most things in between, including daddy long legs. Very few fish rising and no sign of any fish bigger than the few we caught. Nevertheless, a very enjoyable day on such a beautiful beat. Stayed the night in Park Place guest house, Crickhowell. Comfortable, and excellent breakfast. Very friendly - nothing too much trouble. Thoroughly recommended

Excellent spot but drew a complete blank today. No fish rising, and no takes using nymphs even in the fast flows. Water level low . Couple of fellow fishermen reported to me that they had been there the day before and again no takes.

1 Brown trout 3" approx caught on wet greenwell's - returned.

Georgeous beat.

No fish caught by any of rods. Water slightly coloured from thunderstorms night before. May fly hatch extensive but minimal fish activity. Overall, very few fish apparent.

Water low and clear with a strong downstream wind and some heavy showers. CJK had 2 undersized trout from faster water on a olive nymph and olive quill (wet). JW had 2 undersized fish on an olive nymph.

Beautiful Beat, difficult access in places. River extremely low, no fish even seen, nothing rising or even spotted in deeper pools.

1 brown trout, 1 lb caught on a dry olive, late evening rise, not much else rising.

A tough afternoon fishing on what is a stunning beat of the Usk. The few fish we found rising were very selective and were not going to take anything that didn't look 100% right.
This is a very long beat with some great looking runs that must have surely had some big fish lurking in them.
Would be nice to return to complete the top half of the beat hopefully with a bit more water in the river.
5 trout between us up to 12" but non of the famous Usk lumps we'd hoped for.

Lovely river, fished most of the day, NZ method. Little fly life and no fish rising but it was quite a cold day, with rain showers and gusty wind. No fish caught