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Arrived with the river just under .7 on the gauge, quite cold with a brisk downstream wind. Decided to start fishing with salmon rod, got in the water at the bridge and slowly covered the pools working my way upstream, being a novice with the doublehander it was great to be in the water and for the first time feel that (after a shaky start) I am starting to cast fairly consistently! Had a pull at the top of wood stream that turned out to be a lively trout of around half a pound that was quickly unhooked and released. Fished upto the upper rocks and noticed that there was a big hatch of March Browns, nothing at first seemed to be rising but after around fifteen minutes of a fairly intensive hatch the river seemed to come alive with plops and small splashes, by the time I had switched rods things had slowly subsided? Just caught the end of the hatch, I managed to miss a couple of takes off the surface and my companion connected with two fish that unfortunately didn't make the net, after this period of excitement the river went back to its normal self and stayed that way for the rest of the day.
Tried for a salmon below the bridge late in the day but unfortunately not enough flow for the fly? Turned out to be a beautiful spring day and am already looking forward to my next visit, it's becoming an obsession??

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A cold showery day, water just below 0.7 on the gauge and gin clear. One Salmon seen to break surface just below chain bridge and then rest 6-8 feet below the submerged rock seen from the bridge. Ten minutes casting over said fish of about 8lb before it carried on up river. Great fun

Early morning conditions were very cold, I had to retreat to the car to warm up! It got warmer thereafter, but the river was probably about 1ft too high on the day.
I saw one fresh fish just below the rock pool, but that was the only sight I had during the day.
It's a nice stretch of river, and with lower water most of it would be wadeable. I'll keep an eye on the river height and come back for another day.

River 0.84m perfect. Fished for 6hrs on a great spring day. Saw silver 10-12 lber porpoise by the pub but no response to my offerings except a 4 oz trout at least twice the size of my Willie Gun Snaelda ! Hatch of olives at midday with a few rising. Small hatch of March Browns but no risers.

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Water in great shape at 0.89m and little or no wind. Weather fine with only one brief shower at about 2pm. Fished dry with March Brown on a decent hatch between 1-2.30 and landed 6 between three quarters and one pound above the rock off the staging. Lost one on the lift which would have scaled in excess of 2lb. Hatch stopped at 2.30 so switched to grannom spider 14 and landed another 3 fish to three quarters pound at the steps from the streamy water.
No salmon seen. Fished above and below rock with no success.
A very enjoyable half day!!! What a difference from Monday, my normal day, where the river rose rapidly and I got a thorough soaking, so thanks Barry for the invite to fish today.

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Started at 12.30 below the bridge. The trout were riseing to dark olives and my companion,John targeted them whilst I went for salmon. A good silver fish showed about 100yds below the pub but didn't respond. The trout were more cooperative, John hooked/rose 6 but only landed 1. At 3pm we went above the bridge. John fished Woodstream and landed another 4 trout. I Stuck with the double hander without result. It was great to go to the river and see signs of life. We left at 4.30

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River 0.9m and lovely colour. Blustery changeable wind made Speycasting challenging at times. Minimal olive hatch at 2p.m few risers. Saw a bright salmon head and tail opposite the pub decking but it was unimpressed by my offerings.

Quite a cold but sunny day with surprisingly little fly life until about 4pm when there were small groups of grannom flying up river but didn't seem to evoke much reaction from fish. Presume these were returning female from the hatch a few days earlier. Water was difficult to fish as quite coloured so wading was tricky as I didn't know the beat and couldn't see the bottom. The owner rang me and talked me through the beat which was very useful. Why couldn't his very helpful pointers to where to get in and out of the river be incorporated into the beat map. The banks on this part of the river are quite steep with quite a lot of vegetation so difficult to fish from the bank unless you have a long rod or can get in the water. 1 fish ~ 10 oz caught and released came to silver Invicta but was the only fish all day.

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Height 1.02m lovely colour. Had an enjoyable 5hrs of of exercise with the 15 fter. No sign of salmo salar but a 3/4 lb trout took exception to my Feeler Cascade. A moderate hatch of Grannom when the sun came out at 11.30 but no risers. Light hatch of olives at 1p.m. Just one or two showed interest.

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Very enjoyable day on the Usk for the first time nice to cast a line. Didn't see any fish or rises. Thanks to Barry the owner for his advice and a big thankyou to Gary Evans at Gary Evans Newport for his help and generosity.