Feedback & Reports

Lovely place to fish, surrounded as it is with beautiful scenery. There was a March Brown hatch in the middle of the day but not a later one, possibly due to a strong and cold easterly wind. Caught one very nice fish of the order of 45cm, maybe a little longer so about 2lbs according to one nomogram, on a wet March Brown fished upstream to a rising fish.

1 Trout

6 rods booked - 1 Salmon 5 Trout
Washed off

Tough fishing in general with the water still very low but managed to take out one 10lb+ salmon on a nymph using a 10ft #3 nymph rod which was extremely lucky

1 Salmon

No fish caught, no sign of any fish .

River low but tinged with a bit of colour .Trout nicely on the feed

8 Trout

Tough fishing with river this low. All on nymphs in lower end of bottom beat.

9 Trout

4 trout caught, two under 1lb, two pushing 2lb. A very bright day and low water, all fish taken in fast water. Larger fish taken on small streamer patterns, small fish on PTN. All fish caught in the morning on the beat below the bridge. I was on the beat above the bridge for the afternoon. Large event tents were being constructed right next to the river and in low water this beat is too short to sustain half a days fishing in my view.

4 Trout

Very sunny and warm, river low. Hard going but managed a decent fish on a PTN.

1 Trout

Beautiful spring day - a cloudy start cleared to blue sky and intermittent cloud, a soft gentle breeze and the temperature rose to about 17/18 degrees by mid afternoon. Fished the beat above the bridge first. While there was a gentle mixed hatch - grannoms, olives and something very small - there wasn't much surface action. This briefly changed between about 12.30 and 2.00 pm. But the rises were intermittent and not sustained. I had a good trout on in the Salmon falls streamy water on a team of spiders - maybe 1-1.5 lbs - but it threw the barbless hook after 15 seconds. A few other suicidal parr/small trout did come to hand but nothing substantial. Headed down to the bottom of the lower beat after lunch. Not a lot happening there, but it was beautiful and good for the soul to search the streamy water with the hope of a fish. Nice water but I got the feeling that either the fish haven't really woken up yet, or the river is too low or more likely my limited skills were not up to the challenge. A day on the river is rarely a wasted day though and it was lovely to be back on the Usk.

Tough day

1 Trout