Feedback & Reports

What a day, the sun shone from dawn till dusk and the river looked good for a fish, still falling after the deluge of last week with a tinge of colour, I was confident today might be the day I catch my first salmon as I entered the water.
Less than half an hour later I was into a fish, a good tug sent a shock up my arm and I was into my very first salmon, what an adrenaline rush! The awesome power and speed of a salmon didn’t disappoint, it also showed itself more than once but after about 3 minutes it came off leaving me shaking like a leaf.
I did have a good trout later in the day but I’ll have to wait a little longer for my salmon. A fab day, thank you.

1 Trout

14 Trout

After an evening before with no luck on the same beat with the river perfect and a weather forecast of bright sunshine today, I got to the river at dawn hopefully to get a few hours in before the sun got too much.

Took a solid fresh run fish about 12lb in the bridge pool about 7am, on a Usk Grub tube

Nothing else seen apart a huge amount of Shad, especially in the Rock Pool. Had more than 15 from there in one run of the pool, a lot of stripping!

1 Salmon

One brown trout caught and released.

1 Trout

3 Trout

Seems i need to give up on the salmon fishing and take up shad fishing as i’m pretty good at that. 5 shad and 4 trout but no salmon seen or felt....maybe next time!

4 Trout, 5 Other

1 small brownie.... At this time of year. What was I playing at!? 3 hours fishing.... 6 hours sitting on the patio of the lodge soaking up the surroundings. £25 well spent in my opinion. Single fish fell to a mayfly pattern, but had a few tugs from others on nymphs. Fabulous fabulous day. Thank you so much Wye & Usk for making beats like this available.

1 Trout

Hard conditions, bright & sunny...Had one Rainbow and a Brown about 1lb 3/4 which was nice surprise.

2 Trout

Beautiful place, never fished the Edw before but didn't disappoint. Five trout of approximately 5-6 inches long.
Klinkhammer took 1st fish after small rises seen followed by 4 on a beaded black nymph pattern all around 11am in the bottom quarter of the beat in a steady flow. Short line nymphing no flyline necessary. Best to use an 8 foot or shorter rod. Bright sunshine throughout with hardly a breeze.

River with good flow and looking healthy. Fallen debris in places but nothing significant to cause concern.
River easily accessible although there is a barbed wire fence along side the river, be careful, wading is tricky with smooth boulders as slippery as ice on the bottom, a set of suds should be considered essential.

All in all, a stunning location and good fishing and good value.

5 Trout

Fished for 4 hours, warm sunny day plenty of mayflies on the water . No fish caught and not one single rise seen. This is the second time I have fished this river in the last three days and have not seen any fish rise