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A tragic blank from me today. Absolutely lovely water, however my mistake was to try and work through all of it rather than to single out on the promising spots. I saw fish rise at the head of 2 of the pools. Some fly live, although poor by River Usk standards. A lot of technical riffle water elsewhere, especially on the upstream half of the beat. Apart from that there wasn't much clear activity, although it was a cloudless sky, so that never helps.

Stunning beat. 5 Brownies caught on wet fly and nymphs. 3 more lost, 1 an inch from the net! Tricky wading in parts, would recommend a staff. Exceptional hot and sunny day, some rises to a short March Brown hatch but I was too slow switching set ups. Called it a day at 15:30 fairly sun burnt!

5 Trout

Despite the warm weather very little moving all day. In mid afternoon covered one of the very few moving fish and landed a trout just under 1.5 lbs.
That was the only activity for the day.

1 Trout

First outing of the season and 10 trout 4-8 inches to show for my efforts. Fished the duo and caught fish on both the dry fly and the nymph. No real hatch to speak of and the only rises were those to my fly. River has changed somewhat since my visit last season; a few more fallen trees to contend with. Still, a good start to the season.

10 Trout

No fish seen.

Spinning x 2. Worm x 11. Love fishing on this reservoir.

2 Trout

River was running high and coloured, three fish on and off! On small ptn's ,large olives coming off in periodic spells and a few March Browns.

Fished all day, saw a few rises at about 3 pm - but otherwise not much. The river might have been a little too high for perfect conditions. Caught a small trout on a dry fly in the evening.
Saw some otter foot prints on a muddy bank about halfway up the beat. Lovely beat to fish and will hopefully return soon.

1 Trout

Impressive, if brief, hatch of March Browns at about midday brought the fish to the surface with splashy rises all around. Otherwise, not much surface activity despite a trickle of olives through the day and a few of what looked like the first grannom of the year.
Biggest trout was around 1 1/4lb, with the oos grayling going to 1.5lb. Most took a gold headed ptn with a few coming up to a grey klinkhammer.

7 Trout, 6 Grayling

One trout of about 2lb, caught on a pheasant tail nymph and returned. Quite a few kids poaching.

1 Trout