Feedback & Reports

Thank you for crediting me for the booked days I could not make last year because of the Covid ban on travelling to Wales. This was a lovely day on one of my favourite beats with the river in great condition and with a good flow. An Usk expert could probably have caught a lot of fish as flies, including mayfly, were coming off all day and particularly in the late afternoon, and plenty of fish were moving, though I did not locate any sizeable ones. I took three smallish trout on a goldhead pheasant tail, two in the Abercynrig Pool and one in Llanobery - they wouldn't look at any of my dries, probably my fault. I found it quite awkward to climb over the crossing point on the fence leading to the lower pool - in fact I dragged a fallen tree trunk there to give us something to step on. My other hobby is wildlife photography and I spent a lot of my day on that, getting shots of a hunting male kingfisher (which appears to have a nest somewhere in the high bank at Llanobery, so please be cautious), a pair of redstarts and grey and pied wagtails catching flies.

3 Trout

4 brown trout, 10-12inches, caught on a nymph fly pattern, 1 chub caught on a dry fly. Managed to get a few rises in the evening on the dry fly but no catches.

4 Trout, 1 Chub

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

Only fished briefly but blown away by beautiful scenery. Very little surface action but several large fish seen via Polaroid’s. Only one brown trout caught on a beetle.

1 Trout

Brilliant afternoon on the Edw, this great river is full of fish. Most were pretty small, 6 to 10 inches although we had several in the 12 to 14 inch range. Nothing much rising but the fish were keen to take nymphs.

30 Trout

3 Trout

Lovely beat but little fly or fish activity. Rose several small fish only.

5 Trout

Conditions getting even more difficult as the week went on, high winds, high temperatures and the river getting ever lower and clearer. Managed two on a Red Tag, both returned. DFN.

2 Trout