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First time to fish this venue and thoroughly enjoyed. 17 fish (trout) caught all together 15 returned safely.
Rangers attended on two occasions very helpful and polite.
Will be booking again soon.

17 Trout

Started fishing at noon. Occasional fish rising. Just before 1pm, a nice hatch of March Brown, which stimulated a reasonable but short lived rise. Had a 1lb 13oz trout on a dry MB. Some olives hatching sporadically from 1.30pm until about 3pm. Five more trout between the two of us. AT 8C - 10C, WT 8C. River at a good fishing height and clear. Dry, cloudy, sunny periods in afternoon. Feeling cold in breeze but generally a pleasant day.

6 Trout

A very fishy beat. A few good hatches throughout the day and managed to take one nice trout trout (1- 1.5lb) off the top with a Klinkhammer. Had a couple of knocks to a deep nymph.

1 Trout

Early morning conditions were very cold, I had to retreat to the car to warm up! It got warmer thereafter, but the river was probably about 1ft too high on the day.
I saw one fresh fish just below the rock pool, but that was the only sight I had during the day.
It's a nice stretch of river, and with lower water most of it would be wadeable. I'll keep an eye on the river height and come back for another day.

Conditions were good, saw a few trout throughout the beat but were easily spooked. Mayfly hatch around lunch time got trout moving and that was when I was able to match the hatch and bring one to the net of around 10 inches.

1 Trout

Two trout, one good sized to a Ptn under a Caddis and another to a dry March Brown, this being brought to the net during an intense but very short lived hatch of March Browns followed by the most voracious feeding, 15 mins ? Great to witness this for the first time! Not so great though for JH who still had a duo on and then tied on a silver sedge in the rush, all over by another change.

2 Sea Trout

great conditions today with plenty of fly on the water, midge, ldo, march brown but the only rises spotted were grayling in the streamy water. the three trout to hand and the 22 grayling all took tungsten bead nymph on the point of a team of flies with unweighted nymphs on droppers. All grayling healthy ranging from 10-19 inches . water conditions were perfect for nymphing. Was amazed at the lack of activity from the trout

3 Trout, 22 Grayling

1 Native Usk trout, less than 1 lbs. Returned to water. Fish was in good condition. 1 Stock trout, less than 1 lbs. Returned to water. Fish was in good condition.

2 Trout

The water was running clear slightly above normal level @ 0.31 there were a few fish rising taking dark olives. We fished dry fly and weighted nymphs. The 2 fish were brown trout 1LB 6OZ and 1LB 2oz caught on pheasant tail nymphs.
Excellent water, 1st time on the Usk and really enjoyed it. Would definitely go again.

2 Trout

I’d stayed overnight locally full of enthusiasm for the new season and flushed with some unexpected success on the Kington wild stream beat the previous afternoon. So, it was somewhat disconcerting watching it snow as I ate my breakfast. Overnight rain meant that the river was still pushing through strongly and coloured, certainly fishable but I regretted leaving my wading staff at home. As the day wore on the sun came out and eventually there was a sparse hatch of Olives but no response from the fish (wish I could identify the small, dull coloured bird that was acrobatically taking the Olives in flight). I tried GRHE, PTN, Kite’s Imperial and an Adams all to no avail. Finally facing up to the prospect of total failure I fished an Elk Hair Caddis above a size 16 Hare’s Ear nymph very slowly in the pool below the old mill. It’s amazing how one fish can transform your day. A beautiful 12” trout took the nymph and came to the net - Happy.

1 Trout