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I used wet and dry flies and caught nothing - I had a couple of nibbles. The river was very low and I was fishing in the middle of the day.
For your general interest, I was fishing the night before on a friends beat on the Wye and caught eight small fish - one was a 1lb grayling. I went fishing at Ashford House yesterday and again caught nothing - same conditions but I did see some big fish from a high bank. Today I am fishing at Peterstone Hall on the Usk.

River very low. Sparse hatch of small olives. 11 BT caught and safely returned. Largest 18" (2.5lb). All on PT nymph variant. Great fishing despite difficult conditions.
What a pity it is to see Himalayan Balsam taking over on this beat. Also there is a serious algal issue downstream of the sewage discharge.

11 Trout

Spent all day on the river, lovely weather but no breeze. The long pools that constitute large stretches of this excellent beat were like glass. One trout, 12', on a para Adams.

1 Trout

Lovely stretch of water but very low compared to what I imagine it gets to. One brown trout but the fishing was very difficult. The weather very warm with not much flow from the area you park the car to the bottom pool. However, there were numerous large fish seen in shoals around 10am but I was unable to get down to the water without spooking them. Definitely will return on another day. A canoe was seen - I didn't think they were allowed when the water was low?
WUF Note: At current water heights the canoeist was in breach of the access arrangements. If you come across this please inform the canoeist of the situation (without endangering yourself) and report it to the Foundation, including details of the organisation if it is an identifiable group.

1 Trout

Water was very low and clear, and bright sunlight made conditions quite testing. Low water made wading relatively easy, enabling access to parts of the beat usually too deep to fish through. Most fish were caught on small nymph patterns, with black pennell and pheasant tails proving most attractive. Only one was caught on a dry pattern - a small elk hair fished through slower pocket water at the middle of the beat.
All fish were in great condition.

8 Trout

A nil return, but a nice day out.

Sunny in the morning, cloudier in afternoon. Air temperature, low 20's. Water temperature 14/15C. River low with bottom covered in slimy weed (algae?) in slowest stretches. River in need of a spate.
Arrived at 11am to localised hatch of olives. Caught 5 good trout on dry Parachute Adams, best 20 inches (2lb 14oz)- a superb fish and best from the Usk. River became dead in mid afternoon.

5 Trout

Water low, bright conditions.

1 Trout

Although there was sporadic surface activity the fish seemed very 'spooky'. Presumably this was in part due to the river being extremely low and clear.

A lovely day. 4 trout to 3/4lb, all on dry fly, all returned. Played and lost a leviathan.

4 Trout