Feedback & Reports

LDO and MB hatched in short bursts from 1pm to 4pm. Two very good fish lost in the first flurry of activity, the bigger of the two would likely have been an Usk PB (c.20”) but broke the connecting knot when close to the net after a wrist aching 10 minute fight. Four fish to 13” eventually made it to hand, all caught on a March Brown Jingler.

4 Trout

Two small 10 inch trout for me today, lost two others, mainly due to poor line control. Weather was cloudy with sunny intervals and little wind, river running a little coloured and fast. A difficult day, as the only fish I found were in some very fast water, wading was tough due to to the very strong flow. I had to use very heavy nymphs to get down fast enough, even so the drifts were very short.

2 Trout

Bit deep to wade at the moment had a good 15 minutes of rising fish

6 Trout

Washed off

High water levels, bank overgrown. Very few opportunities to get a cast in. Bit disappointing.

All fish caught on nymphs and all around the 1lb mark. First time here and fished the middle part of the beat. The bottom end was to deep given the water levels. Hatch of flies around 1.30pm but rises were sporadic. Will come back to explore the top half of the beat.

8 Trout

I had 8 brown trout and my guest had 2.Best fish 18 in or so. 2bigger fish lost. Sadly no hatch of March Browns!! So all fish taken on upstream nymph
Weather horrific. Downstream wind, rain and hail storms

10 Trout

2 Trout

Very hard going with the water levels up and a heavy flow.
Managed 2 fish in the first 2 casts of the season which was nice! Tough going after that. Fish all taken on nymphs.
12-14” fish.

5 Trout

Quite tough today, downstream breeze, pretty cold and not much hatching, although some caddis did get going in the afternoon. A few fish reacted to those which saved the day - two trout on caddis pattern nymphs 12 and 8", and also a salmon parr of 7" on a CDC and Elk . Beautiful stretch of river - lots of kingfisher, grey wagtail and dipper activity, and had one of the latter wading up a riffle underwater ahead of me at one point! Access to a few of the sections is pretty tricky at the moment down a steep and very overgrown bank. A ladder in one or two spots would really help especially for older/less mobile anglers, but then I did really love the wild character of this beat - thanks again for a lovely day!

1 Salmon, 2 Trout