Feedback & Reports

No salmon seen.

First trip of the season on a new beat.From noon onwards there was a steady hatch of LDO's and a few march browns with the odd fish showing themselves.Due to a strong and blustry down stream wind and sporadic heavy rainstorms a dry fly could not be presented correctly.Two beautiful 13" fish did fall to a bead headed PTN making the day every thing it should be, a couple of hard won wild fish from a beautiful stretch of the Usk.Both fish were returned.

2 Trout

A beautiful autumnal day and perfect conditions for salmon, with high water and plenty of hiding places. Only problem was there wasn't a fish of any kind in evidence. It was totally dead. I caught a poacher too, a young fellow with his girlfriend. Hardly seems to matter though as there were no fish.

No fish seen or caught.

Water a little high for confident fishing on this beat with water lapping over the top of my chest waders on more than one occasion, so not easy fishing. Nothing seen or caught.

A lovely day in beautiful sceenery. 9 brown trout between us on dry and nymph. Between 6" nd 12" in size, all returned. NW wind made casting tricky, sunny and fresh. River was clear, fast and fairly low. Highlight was being startled by a huge 4ft long fish swimming up a deep channel under my nose! Only to see it more clearly a few meters away as an Otter.

Just two small Brownies between us (9" apiece). Water very clear (I think they could see us coming!). A few fish rising but nothing consistent so hard to get them to the dry fly. A couple of missed takes as well. Pale Yellow Parachute and Light Olive the taking flies.
Sporadic hatches throughout the day. Weather was mild with a bit of light rain. A downstream breeze made presentation difficult but that's the price you pay for being a diehard dry fly addict.
Both fish returned.

Nil return - Had a couple of pulls but nothing caught.

Zero.

First time on this beat which is both picturesque and interesting fishing. However, the water was falling and with no fish showing except for a few small spashy rises in the shallows the end result was a blank.