Feedback & Reports

fished from about 7pm and expected to see some surface activity but there was little. Pricked four fish on an Adams and hooked but lost a reasonable fish in the tail of the second pool on the beat. Very windy evening with stormy showers. Chap fishing with spinner on the beat....thought it was fly only!
WUF NOTE: The other rod shouldn't have been there and this incident has been reported to the owner. This beat is fly only.

Arrived to find river as I expected, very low. Weather was mild but wind shouting hello.

2nd visit to this lovely beat and succeeded on what I considered difficult conditions given the water clarity and level. 4 brown trout, the best of around 10" on mayfly imitation. Fantastic hatch of mayfly mid afternoon resulting in fish starting to show in previously fishless looking water.

Actually forgot to leave feedback from my first visit a month or so ago but nothing to report with regard to catch. I did however spot from the footbridge the biggest grayling I have ever seen and infact had to look several times to determine it definately was a grayling. Having caught specimens on my local river Dove of over 2lbs, this fish looked considerably bigger and I must emphasise the considerably. I will be returning in the winter!

A most enjoyable day was had by both of us on our first day out as Wye & Usk members.

The recommendation of this beat by the booking offices was a perfect location for us with a wide variety of fishing opportunities from both banks and wading too.
We both had many bites but missed out landing any game mainly due to our inexperience of river trout fishing.
Locations to both sides of the bridge especially down stream where wading in boots was possible were very entertaining.

I'm sure we will be back to this beat in future months, with some more experience under our belts. Thanks.

5 or 6 brown trout caught above the weir (away from the cows), each about 10".
Will be back to explore further.

First time for me fishing on a river, up until now I have fished still waters. Took my son and had a good day, weather was overcast but very windy which was challenging however we did manage to catch 2 brown trout one on a gold headed nymph the other on a Mayfly. There was a good mayfly hatch throughout our time there and we had plenty of takes.

Great day on this marvellous beat. The pool at the bottom of the beat(below the weir pool) is one of he most picturesque spots to be found anywhere in the UK.
Plenty of fly life about but not as many mayflies as I was expecting given the amounts coming of the Monnow. Still a good day with a couple of dozen fish coming to hand mostly between 10-15 inches.

Very bright day, clear skies no cloud, light breeze. 2 brown trout both about half a pound and one small grayling. Fish rising intermittently to black flies. Fish caught on an artificial hawthorn fly. A fair number of fish seen but difficult to catch due to the conditions. This is a lovely stretch of river which I had to myself all day. The upper part of the beat above the weir is difficult to access and even more difficult to cast on in the wooded area.There were many large shoals of fry in the margins which seems a healthy sign.

Six brown trout to 10", 1 salmon par, 1 grayling. An excellent days fishing, river a little shallow, but fishable. All fish caught with a single fly, a sedge olive. Banks are now getting to be a little overgrown with nettles etc.

Warm day with bright sunshine and little fish activity. 1 tiny trout on Hare's Ear - some larger fish seen on the move from the footbridge. Some spinners late evening but no appreciable rise. Saw handsome otter in the gathering gloom - scared only rising fish off! Nice day out.

Two tiny brown trout on a nymph, returned. Very warm and sunny day. Cattle a menace; one ran towards and then charged at me as I walked round a group that were by the river around 30 yards away from me (I ran and got behind a clump of trees); groups occasionally approached me when I was wading near to a slope into the river.