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Sorry for late Feedback. River low and clear. cold east wind. No Fish.

Weather cold – hard frost last night – and cold breeze. Mild spells interspersed with cold squalls throughout the day. River low and clear. Best fishing was in the squalls however as a few March Browns and LDOs braved the conditions to emerge – and a rise followed.
Fish on this beat seem largely to resist the charms of our size 14 and 16 parachute flies – so went bigger with size 12 Imperial parachutes. Best fish nailed one – a lovely 16 incher. Two smaller fish came to ginger quills and two others were lost
So a fairly typical Usk early season day – challenging but at least one respectable fish

3 Trout

Weather could – hard frost last night – and cold breeze. Mild spells interspersed with cold squalls throughout the day. River low and clear. Best fishing was in the squalls however as a few March Browns and LDOs braved the conditions to emerge – and a rise followed.
Fish on this beat seem largely to resist the charms of our size 14 and 16 parachute flies – so went bigger with size 12 Imperial parachutes. Best fish nailed one – a lovely 16 incher. Two smaller fish came to ginger quills and two others were lost
So a fairly typical Usk early season day – challenging but at least one respectable fish

3 Trout

Arrived expecting a difficult day as temperatures were forecast to fall dramatically. Found the river to be very low but this enabled me to get into the river right at the very start of the beat which I've never managed on previous visits. I'm glad I did as there were a number of trout rising to small gnats flitting across the surface, however it soon became obvious they were going to be difficult to tempt given the flat calm, slow moving shallow water and they slowly disappeared, time to move on.
At least lunchtime a few olives started to emerge but the fish only responded when they were joined by a brief but substantial hatch of March Browns, I then took a nice fish of about 12" on a dry fly. The weather then took a turn for the worse so I headed back but by the time I reached the first field again it had improved so I spent a very pleasurable hour or two dry fly fishing taking another reasonable trout and somehow missing three others before the wind got up colder than ever and the rain started, time to call it a day and head for the B&B.
A difficult but very enjoyable day on this wonderful beat, thank you WUF.

2 Trout

5 Trout

Pleasant afternoon, conditions good. Encouraging fly life but very few rises. We both managed to hook 2 trout, one of which was a good size. However, didn't manage to land any!

Very tough day. Cold and breezy with little fly activity and very few rising fish. 4 trout to 13" on mixture of dryfly and nymph.

4 Trout

Chilly nw breeze. Watery sun. Little fly life in evidence. Fish took small use nailer fished near surface. Best brown about 2lb

7 Trout

Tough day; lost a good fish

Just like this time last year (although that visit was a month earlier) a great day in prospect with no return? No true hatch and only 1 ot 2 fish seen so the "early season river" legend remains a mystery? Might be an idea sawp flies for boilies as the resident chub are very impressive but couldn't be tempted to a ptn!