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Only fished for an hour as the river was low and hinting at at bloom in the deeper pools. Was delighted to get a lovely brownie, just under 1lb, though in a deep pool which took a sunken Wulff fly.

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2 Trout

A further fall in the level and still crystal clear. Some cloud cover today but it didn't improve the fishing. A few fish may have shown in the evening but we left early with along drive in front of us. 2 anglers today. No fish caught.
The river desperately needs some rain.

As nice as the location is. there is no wardens checking peoples tickets or surveying the fishing areas, and an unbelievable amount of children swimming and throwing things in the water.

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1 Trout

Very pretty stretch, tempted a few on the dry but too slow for them.

early morning session resulted in 2 low double insanely hard fighting commons both fell to boilie over particle.

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Warm sunny day with cloudy intervals and very little wind, river seemed to be running low and clear.

On arrival there were fish rising so we both started on dries, my fishing partner moving upstream from the first parking spot and me going downstream and starting by the Usk gauge.

I then spent a good three hours carefully presenting everything in my box to rising fish without a single take. I did manage to finally get a bite and hook it, only to have it come off when it swam towards me and I didn't keep the line tight enough.

A quick call to MB who told me that he's had three fish two small and one about a pound and a half. I asked him if he was on dries, and he said that he was but that he wasn't casting upstream to them he was getting all of his fish downstream??

I couldn't figure this out so made my way up still casting at showing fish without a take. When I finally caught up with him I figured out what he meant, he was actually casting a black ant slightly upstream and then letting line out then allowing the submerged fly to swing. He isn't that experienced at fly fishing and didn't know that what he was basically doing was swinging his flies down and across, and because he was using a dry fly to his mind he was still dry fly fishing.

After a couple of hours I should have realised that I was never going to temp these rising fish and switched tactics, instead I persevered. What makes matters worse is that this isn't the first time I've done this, this season.

4 Trout

3 small trout to about 8" on a Klinkhammer. Very few signs of fish feeding despite a Mayfly hatch.

3 Trout

Very busy and probably drove fish out - Fly fished down the very far end but no fishing moving - caught 2 small perch and released. Disappointing considering the conditions looked ideal.

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