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Skinny water bright , no hatches , very hard fishing but easy wading and walking after 2 days on the rocks . I prefer the rugged bedrock beats even if they do kill my knees 2 tiddlers , left at 7 pm due to long drive home , Long stretches of slow water and not many shady deep hiding places . Not my kind of Usk fishing

2 Trout

Another hard day on the Usk. It was cold, wet and windy but this is still a lovely stretch of water. We did not catch anything and saw little sign of fish at the surface, with the exception of one short stretch just above the large pool at the bottom of the beat. Here we both tried without success to catch at least one of what seemed to be many fish feeding at the surface over a period of about 2 hours. We tried everything: many dry patters and sizes, emergers, spiders.... No idea what they were feeding on but we certainly did not have anything like it - not a single bit of interest in anything we had to offer.

Endured the rain for 2 hours then left. Didn’t see any fish rising maybe it was the mink we saw that scared them off.

The day was very windy, so no fly hatches and no rising fish. Only fished for a couple of hours, nothing seen. Note that this beat is very overgrown - much more than in previous seasons.

4 Trout

2 Grayling

Short session - 9 small brown trout. It helps to be able to cast with either hand here.

9 Trout

2 Trout

Fished from about 8:30 am til about 1 pm ,me and my young sons spent more time with our Griffith's Sparkle Gnat in the trees and bushes than in the water,but I managed to bring to hand a lovely brown trout at about 5 inches and lost about 4 more, quite a few small fish seen rising too. I should have wore long sleeves as arms covered in mosquito bites.seemed to be a lot of varied flying insects about,did not manage to try whole beat with kids,but look forward to going back in proper stealth mode.Also watch out for barbed wire when climbing in and out.

1 Trout