Feedback & Reports

Weather - warm sunny
Water - Clear but shallow.
Duration - 13:00 to 17:00
Location - 200 yds downstream of Green Bridge (South Bank)
Float fished worm trotting. Depth circa 3-4 feet. About 8 missed possible bites. One confirmed catch circa 8” long and roughly 8-10oz. My first ever Tees Trout and my first trout for 50+ years.

1 Trout

Hardly any swims usable. Does the Wye and Usk ever check that the fishery owners do any work to make swims usable. At £25 a time it’s a disgrace.

9 Chub

Very hot
Chub to 4lb

6 Chub

Booked an evening ticket but got badly delayed by traffic after work - only one lane on Severn Bridge west-bound (for no apparent reason, sigh). However I did get a couple of hours in and to be honest it was hot early on so I probably ended up fishing at the right time anyway. There were a few olives and spinners around which encouraged the trout to feed when the temperature dropped - caught three off the top on spinner patterns, could have had a few more which came off the hook. Lovely beat as always, kingfisher hunting next to me in the shallows of one section and repeatedly taking small fish to it's burrow in the opposite bank, lots of sand martins and a common sandpiper there too, and was nice to meet the owner and one of the neighbouring season rods on the other bank for a chinwag - an idyllic summer evening which more than made up for the long travel delay!

3 Trout

Did not fish due to high temperature in the interests of fish welfare .

The walk to the river was ok fished the upstream section of the beat in the faster water
Started at first light took an hour to get any interest fished steadily until the sun got on the water it was very warm and bright called it a day at lunch time. The fish were all good condition ranging from 2 to 4 lb lost 1 better fish most likely a barbel by the way it went.

7 Chub

5 Trout

Fished from 7.00 am with gauge at 1’4”.
Too hot and bright and the river temperature rose quickly so I was finished by 11.00am.
No salmon seen.

1 Trout

early start and all fish came between 5am and 8.30 - lost a couple of decent fish in the rocks and snags on beat 2
-should have packed up when it got hot and sunny - but sat it out and cooked without a bite for 6hrs - with about 200 swans and canada geese my swim looked more like Slimbridge at feeding time, made it really hard work at times - not sure id fish this beat again til the younger birds have moved on.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub