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Dry fly and nymph used. River looked perfect but very little rising.

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The weather was cloudy until about 10.30am and then sunny all day with a downstream breeze. No salmon seen.
Ghillie/guide was optimistic because the low water level suits this beat.

A group of canoes travelled downstream in the afternoon and complied with my request to pass behind me.

Sunny day, low water. Fly only. Trout small.

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Quite a tough evening on the Usk. The trout started rising at about 8.30 but to what I couldn't work out. I threw everything in my box at consistent risers for over an hour, but all were refused.
Earlier in the evening I had 5 small trout on nymph and klinkhammer in the faster sections and lost a couple of other decent fish.

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One 9" wbt to a rusty klinkhammer

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Lovely sunny weather all day, so a lot of mayflies in the air. Got the browntrout (38cm/1,4 kg) on a converted newzealand-style combination (tied together) of attracter fly and nymph.

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Hot and sunny 22' Despite the bright sunshine, the first and second cast of the day produced two trout, one of 1lb and one of 2lb on a small dry in the rapids. Two more good trout were caught of 2lbs each in the fast runs, they tended to hit the fly hard making a splash and a quick strike at this produced the goods. several of the other fish caught were on small nymphs. total of 10 fish of which 3 of 2lbs.

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Well another glorious day , turned up at Court of Noke beat at eleven , bright sun , slight breeze , looked difficult conditions , so tackled up with two tiny size eighteen tungsten nymphs .
As I walked down to the start of the beat downstream , I did stop now and agiain just to see if any rises were obvious . It looked pretty quiet to be honest !!!!,
Starting at some of the runs that have produced before , had one small feisty brownie , about six inches , as always , lovely colours , and quickly released . Same pool , at the head , and ditto another cracking little fish again six or seven inches , admired then released .
I did not see a mayfly till about two ish , and then they were thin on the ground , Think I saw four in total !!!! Things will hot up no doubt very soon . I did see one splashy aggressive rise , in the bridge pool , possibly a good fish , hope he's there next week !!!!!
The other four fish were from prospecting the usual likely locations . Great fun on the two weight rod , and sizes from six to ten inches . No rises seen during my four hour session here , although I'm sure the next two weeks , the bonanza will begin !!!!!
Another lovely few hours on this beat , six lovely brownies caught and released , nothing big but still lovely to be out in our glorious Herefordshire country side , shall be back here on evening sessions over the next two weeks . . . . . . . .

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