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Warm and balmy evening and water clear and low. Elected to fish the faster water at Woodstream with a wet deer hair sedge and made contact at 18.15 with a large fish which took lots of line of 2.5lb tip only and led me a merry dance before landing a super 3.5lb Chub, the largest I have caught in the Usk on fly in over 40 years. Netted and safely returned. Made my day.
Sky cleared and wind sprang up and surprisingly no further fish caught.

1 Chub

My annual trip to the Usk. River was perfect. Clear and good level. Fly fished various tube patterns but to no avail. Hot sunny day which made for a lovely day out but probably not ideal for fishing.

River quite high, strong and coloured, but fishable.
I was dry flying only. Saw a few rises and had a couple of takes but didn’t connect with either.

On the river at 6.30 after ridiculously early start. As expected magical early morning on a beautiful beat. River a steady 0.70m and a beautiful tint.Bright sunshine from the off. Rock and Upper Rock are shaded so looked so fishy. No sign of salmo salar. Finished them both with fly no response. Switched to spinner and go a firm take on a black and gold SHFC in slack water just above fallen tree . Good fight .very fresh silver 13 lb cock landed and swam off strongly on release. A lovely day

1 Salmon

Weather poor with 20mph gusty wind and light rain. Temp 11deg and river .74m and rising with a fair bit of colour. Fished from top of beat to bridge on the woodside spinning. No takes and no Salmon seen.
Reverted to other side at rock and John continued spinning for Salmon whist I fished dry for trout and landed a lovely brown trout of 1.25lb from midstream opposite the Chine, taken on a size 12 dark olive.
John hooked a half pound trout spinning but it came off
Prolific hatch of all types of olive and the occasional mayfly but the brisk wind and low temperature meant no rises after 8pm.

1 Trout

this was unfishable today and not just because of the rain. on the south bank there are about 3 areas to fish but along the camp site and the other side of the bridge there just isn't anywhere to fish if the river is too high to wade as it was today. beyond the bridge there are no places to access the river as it is too overgrown with even a trapped sheep unable to get back up (we told the farmer). very disappointing stretch which could do with a new description on the website.

Weather great between 5 and 7pm with cold wind and rain after. I landed 4 very good trout on goldhead haresear, to 4.5 lb total, 3 on woodstrem run and one, the largest at 1.75lb at end of chine pool. John had 2 trout on a sunken olive pattern each half pound and lost two others of similar size.
Brilliant evening's fishing

6 Trout

Fished for an hour in the morning and a similar time in late evening only on the part of the beat adjacent to the caravan park. Did not observe a lot of fish activity although managed to hook and lose 3 smallish trout on small dry. A cold upstream wind was probably not helpful. Nevertheless it is a nice stretch and I look forward to fishing it again.

There was a sporadic hatch of mayfly like flies around 9pm with little response from the trout. The one undersized trout was caught on a Snipe and Purple fished down and across.

1 Trout