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The river was much clearer here than the previous day at Penpont but was still fairly high, There were plenty of hatches due to the sunshine of Mayfly and a few smaller flies of black or cream colouring. All 4 fish were taken from the lower end of the beat on dry flies immitating the small cream hatches. A couple of fish were lost in the middle section of the beat where the hatches were less prolific and a PTN was fished through the head of some broken water and into the slack at the banks.

4 Trout

Wonderful beat but no fish!

After 3 days of heavy rain, the water was coloured and pushing through, so difficult conditions. Nothing rising. 2 trout, both caught on the nymph.

2 Trout

4 brown trout caught on a Mayfly. Trout rising sporadically. River in very fine fettle.

4 Trout

After a flood the previous day the river was down and clear and the day warm and bright. Good hatches of olives and a few small fish rising under trees, otherwise very quiet. I suspect evening might have been better but I was unable to stay late.

1 Trout

The river started quite cloudy with silt and didn't get much better during the day but I did have a few pulls - that might have been brownies - and a beautifully spotted 15 inch brown trout that I returned.

1 Trout

This is a nice stretch of water although I struggled to tarry up the directions with the map. Each individually made sense but not together. Probably just me! It was a lovely day but I saw nothing rise and no fish. Again, probably just me!

Good mayfly hatch. All fish caught on Grey Wulff (size 14). Best fish around 1 lb, but hooked and lost a much larger one.

4 Trout

Arrived at 8am, river 0.8m on the gauge, carrying a bit too much colour but still fishable. Two fish in the 18-20lbs class showed just above Rock whilst I was tackling up. Had a lovely day with the 15 footer and saw another 6 fish show whilst running. Most were silver torpedos around the 10lb mark and one red fish around 7-8lbs. Was never close enough to drop fly straight on their noses. No rise to mention, but a half pound brownie (equalling my record fish for this season!) hurled itself at my Conehead Cascade and was safely returned. When I left the river had cleared a little and dropped 3 inches. Prospects for friday and saturday look excellent.

1 Trout

After two very wet days, including one wash off, we finally got to see what the Usk has to offer. An excellent location and lots of hatch activity after all the rain. Two small trout caught (and returned) and two others hooked but lost.
We were very impressed with WUF and will return.

2 Trout