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After rain the day before, the water dropped back quickly to what looked like summer level, though with some colour in it. Plenty of flies around too. Lovely day, but no bonanza of fish - just enough to keep interested. All caught on nymphs. I tried offering a dry fly to some of the rather few rises and had several 'expressions of interest' but no real take. Probably offering the wrong fly - I was using a daddy long legs.

6 Trout

A much wetter day today. Very few fish rising. No offers at all. The rain made us beat a hasty retreat in the afternoon. lovely place. We'll be back.

Four old friends (one now resident in New Zealand) having a catch up while fishing this lovely part of the Usk. A much cooler day than all of last week although the sun warmed us up and a lot of the river is sheltered from winds. There was a big rise late morning. Plenty of Mayfly (some enormous!) but they were actually taking smaller upwing flies. Size 14 parachute Adams caught the fish. Mayflies were boiled at and taken half heartedly and rejected. Biggest was about two pounds. The rest between 10 ounces and a pound. Perfect in every way. A lovely place to spend the day.

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Superb really pretty long beat with easy access along its length. As with the previous day on the adjacent beat with bright sun and low clear water wasn't always easy to catch and had to get into some tricky positions under trees to produce fish, but lovely fish it did produce.

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Started at the bottom of the beat about mid morning with plenty of flies and fish rising. Between the old man and me we managed one 12” trout and missed or lost another 5 or 6. The fly life lasted well into the afternoon though by the time we sat down for lunch the fish had gone quiet.

Headed up into the woods and there were a few more fish rising again but mostly smaller ones. Managed to land one in the faster water at the top of one of the pools. Made our way back to the lower part of the beat early evening and though the heavy showers promised by the weather forecast didn’t show up there was some light drizzle about. Managed to land two more before the temperature started to fall and it was time to trudge back up the hill to the car.

Really nice beat, thank you very much.

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