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1 no Brown trout – 12in – returned

Just the one fish between us today. Could only squeeze in a couple of hours before the drive back home. It was one of the few fish seen all weekend rising and a quick change to a klinkhammer saw another good fish of 17inches come to the net. This is a fantastic beat that keeps producing quality fish visit after visit.

Nice day on the Lugg at lyepole but with a cool wind which was fairly brisk at times. I caught 5 grayling upto 15 inches and my brother had three to 12 inches plus a fair few small grayling (5 inches) all taken on nymphs. No sign of any trout which surprised me as 2 weeks ago i caught trout there in less favourable conditions.

Nothing hatching, nothing rising, nothing cought. Incompetence shone through today!!
A lovely place to pass a day nevertheless.

Nil return.

Fished 10-4pm. River high and clear. Sunny, with a cold East wind. Managed two trout early on when fishing spiders and a gold head. A few fish started rising at approx 11am to the odd LDO and Grannom. Caught a 2lb trout on a dry Adams at lunch time. The afternoon petered out with no hatch and no fish rising. My companion managed an 11" trout at 3.30 to a small goldhead. Water very cold. We could do with moving the wind around to the West.

"A bright but not a scorching sun
A southern breeze to curl the stream
and Master half our work is done" Thus wrote Izac and it seemed a perfect day weatherwise on the Usk but very few flies about - saw a couple of dark olives and one March brown. Hardly any rises - however, leaning over the stone bridge saw a rise and ten minutes later connected on a small iron blue and a lovely trout of 2 lbs (returned). This plus the wonderful scenery, the gamboling lambs, made a great day.

Lovely weather plenty of fly life but no fish. Maybe next time.

Glorious hot sunny day. The water temperature was extremely cold and although we saw the odd Olive hatching around 4 p.m. there were no trout moving to them. We never saw a rise all day, but thoroughly enjoyed our days fishing - we shall be back to renew the challenge!! Stunningly picturesque part of the world.

The day started of badly with one of our party forgetting his wading boots so while we started fishing he made the return journey back to Penarth for said boots (good start).
First fish second cast just below town bridge a superbly spotted brown of 1 1/4lb fell to a tungsten bead black nymph, thoughts of this might be a good day after all started.
Fish were rising to a small hatch of March browns and with this the second fish was hooked fought for a minute and then lost to a knot pulling through, better fish, fury over knot tying. Some people tuned up fishing worms which we did inform was illegal but ignored us and spoilt the pool. The rest of the day didn't turn out to that good with one other small brown taken late in the afternoon. Fished till late hoping for a rise to maybe start but with only a few sporadic rises hunger and the pub got the bettter of us and we called it a day.

There are some very big trout on this beat and would highly recommend it.