Feedback & Reports

We arrived hopeful as the river had risen to .75m overnight after a long spell at its lowest but it turned out to be a pretty tough day. We fished as many swims as we could throughout the full length of the beat with standard pellet approach. Access to the water is good and the beat is a nice flat walk along its length. We found campers fishing the lower meadow but after checking with w&u now understand that there is no agreement in place with the fishery owners to allow this so they should not prevent your access to this meadow

2 Barbel, 3 Chub

12 Trout

River up just under a foot, fished well to nymphs, wading challenging in this height of water

2 Trout, 30 Grayling

Arrived at dawn after very early start. River 0.7m and falling. Carrying too much colour for fly but persevered anyway. Fished hard for 8 hrs punctuated by a delightful kip on the bank at halftime.
Saw 4 fish in total on Rock and 12 in total below the bridge various sizes and hues.(one 20lb below cables) Mostly runners I suspect.Got drenched 3 times and river held its colour. Had a beautiful 11/2lb brownie at end ,safely returned. Prospects excellent for tomorrow . Go gettum Gary!

1 Trout

Fished fly up the top end, conditions looked great, a warm damp day with good cloud cover. But for a full day's fishing, using every method I could muster I caught no trout, had one knock on a lure and caught one small perch.

I only saw half a dozen fish move all day. Where are the fish? Its a massive reservoir and when you have no action you begin to wonder if you are chucking your flies at empty water. A shame really cos I love fishing this venue and want to continue to do so.

1 Other

All taken on a dry fly, and all returned to the river (barbless hooks). One Trout was over two pounds and one Grayling nearly one and a half pounds - the others all takers but smaller. Water lower than the day before, but still dangerous and difficult to wade.

3 Trout, 3 Grayling

Complete blank - fair bit of water had gone into the river in 24hours so possible a temperature change turned the fish off the feed?

Shame, stretch look nice, easy manageable swims and some lovely deeper runs off the main flow but only one real whack on the tip all day, what I managed to miss.

Weather warm and sunny. Mostly chub on pellets. Fished middle section of bear. Beat neat and tidy. Credit to the baliff

2 Barbel, 18 Chub

I was hoping that Friday's rain would be put a bit of life into the river but, in spite of a pulse of water going through on Saturday, come Sunday morning, it was back down at 3 point something on the Byton gauge.

I had to work harder for my fish today; and had the impression that I was covering water that had been fished recently. No reports on Wye & Usk of anyone fishing on Saturday - so perhaps it was the occupants of the cottage? With the exception of a fast run just below the weir; where I had half a dozen fish in not much more than half a dozen casts, none of the multiple catches I associate with Lyepole - with a number of banker runs failing to produce.

Most of the Grayling were in the 7-8 inch class. Ditto for the Trout. I fished a Size 14 tungsten Endrick Spider on point with a Size 16 Snipe & Purple on dropper; with the majority of the Grayling taking the point fly and, if memory serves, all of the Trout except one taking the dropper.

As ever, the above figures are an estimate - these days I struggle counting past 5

10 Trout, 15 Grayling