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River 0.84m perfect. Fished for 6hrs on a great spring day. Saw silver 10-12 lber porpoise by the pub but no response to my offerings except a 4 oz trout at least twice the size of my Willie Gun Snaelda ! Hatch of olives at midday with a few rising. Small hatch of March Browns but no risers.

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Water in great shape at 0.89m and little or no wind. Weather fine with only one brief shower at about 2pm. Fished dry with March Brown on a decent hatch between 1-2.30 and landed 6 between three quarters and one pound above the rock off the staging. Lost one on the lift which would have scaled in excess of 2lb. Hatch stopped at 2.30 so switched to grannom spider 14 and landed another 3 fish to three quarters pound at the steps from the streamy water.
No salmon seen. Fished above and below rock with no success.
A very enjoyable half day!!! What a difference from Monday, my normal day, where the river rose rapidly and I got a thorough soaking, so thanks Barry for the invite to fish today.

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Started at 12.30 below the bridge. The trout were riseing to dark olives and my companion,John targeted them whilst I went for salmon. A good silver fish showed about 100yds below the pub but didn't respond. The trout were more cooperative, John hooked/rose 6 but only landed 1. At 3pm we went above the bridge. John fished Woodstream and landed another 4 trout. I Stuck with the double hander without result. It was great to go to the river and see signs of life. We left at 4.30

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River 0.9m and lovely colour. Blustery changeable wind made Speycasting challenging at times. Minimal olive hatch at 2p.m few risers. Saw a bright salmon head and tail opposite the pub decking but it was unimpressed by my offerings.

Quite a cold but sunny day with surprisingly little fly life until about 4pm when there were small groups of grannom flying up river but didn't seem to evoke much reaction from fish. Presume these were returning female from the hatch a few days earlier. Water was difficult to fish as quite coloured so wading was tricky as I didn't know the beat and couldn't see the bottom. The owner rang me and talked me through the beat which was very useful. Why couldn't his very helpful pointers to where to get in and out of the river be incorporated into the beat map. The banks on this part of the river are quite steep with quite a lot of vegetation so difficult to fish from the bank unless you have a long rod or can get in the water. 1 fish ~ 10 oz caught and released came to silver Invicta but was the only fish all day.

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Height 1.02m lovely colour. Had an enjoyable 5hrs of of exercise with the 15 fter. No sign of salmo salar but a 3/4 lb trout took exception to my Feeler Cascade. A moderate hatch of Grannom when the sun came out at 11.30 but no risers. Light hatch of olives at 1p.m. Just one or two showed interest.

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Very enjoyable day on the Usk for the first time nice to cast a line. Didn't see any fish or rises. Thanks to Barry the owner for his advice and a big thankyou to Gary Evans at Gary Evans Newport for his help and generosity.

Blank for salmon. Still, it was good to be out on a sunny Good Friday casting and seeing how the pools have changed. Perhaps I was being optimistic, so early in the year. After a somewhat leisurely lunch, I returned to find a grannom hatch in full blast. For a while every trout in the river seemed to be rising. As it was, I rushed to put a trout rod up and just caught the end of it. Three trout 11-15 inches on F-Fly. By 2 o'clock it was all over and the river seemed completely dead once more. Many thanks to owner Barry Paraskevas for the invitation.

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River 0.68m and clear. Good to be out on a lovely spring day. Winter spates have moved some gravel making wading easier. Rock pool looking possibly shallower but may be more flow pushing into the Chine. Intermittent hatch of Olives between 1 and 2 p.m. but only 1 or 2 risers. A few March Browns also seen. No takes but still a lovely day.

I invited John Phillips to fish as I was unable to go, and he hooked 10 trout of which 6 were landed, 4 over 1 lb and 2 around half pound on a team of 3 spiders. Most came to the point fly and none landed were on the top dropper. John is about 100 fish for the season so far!!! mainly Grayling on the Rhymney. The Taffman is a genius!! Most fish were taken in the wood stream with 2 decent fish below the Rock.
Water 0.7m and perfect conditions at 12 deg and light breeze. Seems I missed out!!! AGAIN.

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