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5 Trout

Water very low, took the Chub while fly fishing for Salmon and the grayling & trout was with a dry fly.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling, 1 Chub

1 Trout

3 Trout

4 Trout

3 Trout

Lovely beat but challenging fishing with no fish rising. Lost one and landed two grayling nymphing in faster water.

2 Grayling

3 Trout

Despite high expectations this was quite a tough but still enjoyable day on the middle Usk, which is definitely starting to show signs of an algal bloom. The normally clear late May water had a strong green tinge with visibility around 3 feet. Still, it was certainly fishable and coloured water always makes approaching fish a little easier.
Mayflies, yellow Mays, olive uprights and smaller olives hatched sporadically although every one we saw ended up in the beak of one of the many swallows, sand martins and swifts swooping down over the river.
Rises were few and far between but we tempted 5 to just over 2lbs to mayfly pattern, cdc shuttlecock emerger and klinkhammer. Fish activity picked up a little in the evening although we were off the water by 8.30pm.

5 Trout