Feedback & Reports

Nothing doing. Plenty of recreational traffic in the forest park (including a major campsite opposite), but none of the fishy kind in the river. The fly water around the footbridge looked decent, if brown-tinted. I guess this is not particularly holding water - you have to be lucky to come across a run of fish. Fell in just as the canoes started, about 12.

Nil

River was a nice height 1' 2" but rose a little initially and was carrying quite a bit of colour. Not ideal for the fly but pressed on regardless. Water started to drop. Had a sea trout in Bibblins Run and another in Chestnut stream, plus pulled out of a third when lifting off the dangle. Reckon I could have had some more but by this time it was 9pm and time to head back to London.

2 Other

No salmon caught and no fish seen running, a little coloured and probably a bit to high, should be good for the weekend. I did catch a Shad accidentally, a first for me it took a 1.5" Cascade.

1 Other

One salmon caught in Biblin's run at 3.15 pm. It took a 2 inch copper tube fished on fast sink tip and measured 28 inches. Nothing else seen all day.

1 Salmon

I put in a report of my days fishing on Seven Sisters but it was not very informative so I thought I'd better give a few more details. The salmon took a 2 inch copper Willie Gunn fished on 10 ft fast sink tip. It was caught on the Biblins Run on the right bank about 10 yds down from the shingle beach water. Conditions were good, the water height at Monmouth was 1.38 but the river did rise a few inches through the day.

1 Salmon

Blank. A quiet afternoon during which I didn't see any salmon move. The showers don't seem to have affected the lower Wye yet, although the upper river and the Usk have coloured and risen a bit. On Martin's Pool there was a considerable hatch of yellow May Duns, first I have seen this year, and the chub were lined up under the surface to enjoy them.

No takers today. River at 6” on the gauge, good colour and stayed this way all day. I was blessed with a clear view of three fish in various pools, had to settle for that and good size by-catch. Thank you.

1 Chub, 2 Pike

Very enjoyable day; weather much better than the forecast but alas no fish!

Had a 1.5lb brown trout third cast on a small tube which pulled hard and had me thinking it was a grilse for the first minute or so.

8 hours later that was the only fish I'd had. Didn't see any Salmon.

Water level was around 6 inches. Some of the pools were great for the fly but overall I reckon it would be better at 8-10 inches, possibly a foot.

1 Trout