Feedback & Reports

River quite low today and water fairly cold. Not many fish rising. Both fish caught on A PTN . Great looking new fishing hut! Looking forward to returning for another outing on this most accessible beat in stunning surroundings.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

A beat of three-thirds that I have not fished before. Bottom and top thirds are gorges over bed rock. The top particularly reminded me of Clettwr. I walked to the beat start but I wouldn't recommend it unless you are into rock climbing as the descent to the water was challenging. Also fishing the gorges was very challenging with gin-clear water and a low flow. All fish caught in the middle third which had a nice set of pools. Best fish was a feisty 12" WBT from the deepest pool. Walk back to the car was long and along busy roads.

13 Trout

Enjoyable day, good rise

3 Trout

Cloudy but warm day, wind a little strong but not noticed when on the river.
A frustrating day, only 5 trout between 4 and 6 inches to hand but at least three times that lost and even more missed.
Fished dry all day on small klinkhammers, all of the fish coming from tails of pools or slower water.
Fish rising all day but had to move very slowly because the river very low, consequently took me 8 hours to complete the beat!I should have caught loads more and I'm sure a better angler would have done.
Nice beat which was very varied, both in the water and the wading.

5 Trout

Fished from 12.00 to 16.00. The afternoon started badly, chilly and overcast. As the time wore on the sun appeared from behind the clouds. Very little evidence of a hatch but the fish seemd ready to rise to my dry fly. I ended up with two nice fish at 10 inches, 3 more about 8 ins and one at 6 inches. I missed many more rises to my para Adams. A lovely stretch and a satisfying afternoon on the dry fly.
PS. It might be worth making it clear on the instructions for the beat that cars should be parked at the very far end of the parking bay - where the asphalt stops and the grass begins or on the other side of the road. I thought I had left room for the owner to turn his tractor but apparently not. The farmer was perfectly pleasant, but it might be helpful to be completely clear about the parking requirements.

6 Trout

4 Trout

River low. Many of the usual lies not holding fish and lack of flow and clear water made fishing challenging. This is a lovely beat though with plenty of fish, reasonable wading and sufficient room to cast. A steady mixed hatch all day. 8 wbt caught and returned, all on dries (pale watery dun and F-fly) most between 6"-9", one approaching 12".
I ended the session on the top section of the beat. Worth jumping in the car and giving it a go.

8 Trout

I can't comment a lot on the things like river conditions as we were fishing in the river for first time and also we are just beginning anglers. I've caught 1 brown trout on the black nymph just simply let freely it to float by the river current, fish was reacting to the dry fly but no success on this method.
In general it is nice beat there was not a lot of fish movement, personally found it very hard to fish maybe because not used to the rivers and the wild trout but its very nice beat surrounded with beautiful nature.
My strong advice is before you decide which beat to book is to read Wye & Usk Foundation Fishing Reports.

1 Trout

Italian guest, Corrado Benassi, caught a salmon estimated at 20lbs (94cm) on Lower Symonds Yat beat on a 'Willie Gunn' tube fly, double hook. Returned safely. Many fish rising on this stretch of the river, during the morning.

1 Salmon