Feedback & Reports

Incredible morning on the river today. Arrived at 08:00 and could see no rising fish so started by French nymphing and caught 6 trout, all around 6" so decided to try fishing the Duo and took a few fish on the dropper before the fish started favouring the dry fly so i switched to dry fly only (Size 16 Oppo) and the action really took off. Caught a couple of nice trout but they were mainly no bigger then 8", the grayling however were all sizeable fish, one around 14", which put up a strong fight. For every fish i hooked i missed at least 2 (too eager to strike). Unfortunately whilst pulling in a fish I waded into a large bolder and took a dunk (and lost the fish!) so had to call it a day at 13:00. Exceptionally pretty setting with no road noise or none fishers using the river.

15 Trout, 12 Grayling

Very warm day and flows were low. Caught chub on dry fly and trout on nymphs. Fantastic day and lovely beat.

2 Trout, 1 Chub

15 Barbel

Difficult day......low water, hot and bright, public present playing in river..........waiting for a rise which never materialised.....nymphs did the trick in the end........difficult day....but a beautiful river.

4 Trout

After fishing the Usk yesterday I knew that really it wasn't worth it until late in the evening so I only started fishing at about eight o'clock. Just about then there was quite a good mixed hatch with some yellow mays coming off amonst others. Still tricky fishing and spooky fish, very easy to put a riser down with a lack of stealth of a bad cast. In the end I chose to go slow and target rising fish missing a few and landing about half a dozen before the light was gone and the hatches pretty much over. A lovely section with a number of good riffles perfect for dry fly work at this water level which is very low at present.
Again thanks for the opportunity to fish these amazing beats and lovely rivers..

6 Trout

11 Barbel, 13 Chub

Fantastic location, very warm 24c, fish rising from 12 pm for a couple of hours caught on the lower stretch. Missed many.

2 Trout, 1 Chub

5 barbel biggest 7lb all taken on feeder with boilies and pellet hook bait

5 Barbel

8 Barbel, 4 Chub