Feedback & Reports

5 x trout 8-15 inches, Parachute Adams. A warm but cloudy day, rather humid. No trout showing in the deeper pools, but prospecting the faster runs brought some of the typical and very pretty 10 Arrow fish averaging 10 inches, plus one larger one as a very nice surprise.

5 Trout

Beautiful spot. 3 Barbel caught in the middle of the day on pellet using PVA bags too. Moved around a few swims until located some fish. Faster water swims are better.

3 Barbel

Quite a cool day , refreshing breeze, pools 2’-3’ deep running to a couple of inches over gravel. No sign of any fish at all from 10.30 - 2.30 tried various flies not sure if the Brexit issues have put them off ????

River low and water warm. Oppressive heat. No fly life to speak of. No fish activity.

A morning session with light nymphs fished on a French leader into the heads of the pools caught a few fish. This was proper stealthy fishing, not putting my head above the vegetation. I saw a good number of fish, some of a good size, but it was only the ones in the feeding lanes that could be caught. The largest was 16" but very fat and strong with the classic pink flanks and black spot Usk markings. I saw one Mink which is the first this season on the Usk, I think the Otters are keeping their numbers down.

7 Trout

Never really got going today; with the paucity of fish being largely down to doing the wrong things at the wrong time. Apart from a couple of tiddlers, the fish were a decent size; Trout to 12" and Grayling to 14". A combination of French nymphing, conventional nymph fishing and dry fly; with most of the fish on nymphs. A brief encounter with something much bigger; which will live in the
memory long after all the others are forgot

3 Trout, 6 Grayling

The river was very low so fishing was restricted to the faster section only.
Used various forms of feeder with pellet. Corn, meat etc not successful at all.

Stayed at the Belvedere B+B, very clean, very friendly owners and ideally positioned for my needs. Will definitely return next year

13 Barbel, 10 Chub

5 Trout

Very low water as you would expect after the recent weather, but picking out eight beautiful wild brown trout from the deeper pools with a non ginked black CDC sedge fished just under the surface.

8 Trout

The river had dropped back several inches since our visit 2 days before but the catch was similar with our group catching 10 Barbel and 2 Chub, this time the tactics were a mixture of feeder and float.

Thanks to Terry the bailiff who was very helpful.

10 Barbel, 2 Chub