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First visit, and although no Salmon caught or seen there was no disappointment. A really picturesque stretch of water with lots of variety, particularly for the trout fisher. I was focused purely on Salmon today, but based on the fine condition of the trout that kept taking my Ally's, I think next time I should bring two rods! The bottom section of the beat really took me by surprise with its breadth - what with the sloping pebble shores and flat land in surround it somehow reminded of parts of the Tay. Some of the nicest fly water I've fished on the Usk, but I would suspect the best chance of a Salmon here is in pretty high water. A great consideration when other Usk beats are too high to fish. I lost my sunglasses wading down in the morning, and miraculously found them on the river bed in the afternoon! Every cloud and all that.

2 Trout

4 Trout

Very hot and very little rising, but beautiful location.

2 Trout

6 Trout

Very warm day and flows were low. Caught chub on dry fly and trout on nymphs. Fantastic day and lovely beat.

2 Trout, 1 Chub

Fishing location is beautiful. Stunning stretch of river. Although I had no takes, it was wonderful just being there.

We'd booked salmon rods but with the water on the low side, decided to stick to trout fishing. There were sporadic rises through the day with occasional hatches of yellow mays and olives. We had some good fish on nymphs in the fast water and then at about 6pm the rise started with more fish coming to dries, mostly cdc olive emerger type patterns.
Great beat with easy access and outstanding quality of fish. 10 in all to the two rods ranging from 1lb to 2.75lb but many more lost in the faster water.

10 Trout

2 Trout

Another warm and bright day on the river. no action from any fish all day long. next to no rises and not a single nibble. Tried nymphs, wet, dry, klinks, buzzers. Just as we were packing up to go, the river woke up a little. The odd rise came at about 9pm but was too dark to do much about and struggled to change flies in the dark to give it a go.

Lovely open field with loads of sheep about. Surprised to see some people fishing the opposite bank from around 5pm onwards. The farmer also decided to move a load of sheep around his fields at mid day and drove his tractor across the middle section of the river multiple times, ruining the downstream fishing for a few hours.

A fun day out, nevertheless.