Feedback & Reports

1 Trout

Weather hot and sunny with a sometimes strong upstream breeze, river looked quite low. Struggled at Penpont today, lost a good fish early on then struggled to get anything to take the dry.

All in all I had five takes during the day two, two missed and one small 10 inch fish landed that avoided the blank. Despite plenty of mayfly coming off the river, the only thing I could get them to take was a small black gnat again.

1 Trout

Caught on nymphs & drys all quality fish. Lost several more. Lovely water.

6 Trout

Blank I'm afraid. Water very low.

Second day of introducing two mates to the joy of river fly fishing. Got off to a good start the day before at Abernant. Much harder today. River low and clear with plenty of fly life. Yesterday was downstream nymphing, today upstream nymphing and dry. Different gravy!! In spite of a few takes, dry net for the newbies. Highlight of the day I caught a porker of a wbt, around the 3lb mark, certainly amongst my top 3 in the 15 years I've been fishing the Usk. Caught on an emerger, returned safely. Another decent fish taken off the top with an F-fly. Brilliant but tough going for the beginners.

2 Trout

I had a difficult day trying to tempt trout to a variety of dry flys all to no avail

Lovely day on a beautiful beat. Lots of fish seen including a few real specimens. Lots of fish rising all day but very hard to tempt with water clear and shallow - very spooky!
Had 5 lovely fish before lunch and then the afternoon we were defeated by the fish! Missed two fish on dries - one fish would have probably gone close to 3lbs. The one that got away.
All fish caught on dries in fast water.
Lovely beat - will return again - perhaps when the water is higher.
Lunch as ever was fabulous!

5 Trout

Thank you for advice on the telephone pointing me and my friend to available fishing at late notice.
Fish were rising throughout the beat and three were caught early to mid-afternoon, the best being about a pound and a quarter. All were taken on dry fly.

3 Trout

It was dry fly fishing day. All fish were returned back into the water in very good condition.

9 Trout

Caught on snipe and purple. River lower, little sign of any hatch

1 Trout