Feedback & Reports

Strange day that promised a lot but delivered little.
Plenty of fly life and fish rising - but could not tempt them. Tried the whole fly box. Ended up with 2 10" wbt and 1 8" oos grayling, one on a small olive, one on a grayling steel blue and one on something small and brown.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

Nice day out, Lost a very good salmon on a Rapala (20lb+). Hooked the fish and 3 minutes later the plug came back and the treble was crushed. Stronger hook next time. Also turned another smaller fish and missed a good take in Loxters. Saw 5 fish all day. Thanks to Terry again for the help.
10 shad, 1 perch

11 Other

1 Small Brown trout taken on a nymph, Very little surface activity. No fish taken. Nice location, great day out and friendly landowners at Ashford house. Found some of the deep wades to fish in the pools were challenging for relatively inexperienced fly fishers, thoroughly enjoyable though. On-line booking really easy and efficient, thanks.

1 Trout

11lb hen fish caught in Ross Angling Clubs Weirend beat at Greenbank on one and half inch tube fly. Clubs total for the year is now 16 fish.

1 Salmon

Great day on the Ithon, 15 trout from 4 - 10 inches and one salmon par. Seven of the trout were in the 8-10 bracket. Started on Nymph and had one small one, then saw some smaller fish rising, as I'm a beginner I took the chance to practice a little upstream dry and was rewarded with some more smaller fish. This gave me confidence to then fish the rest of the day on dry experimenting with various Klinkhammer patterns.
There were very few fish rising but this didn't stop the trout taking anything I put in front of them, missed lots and lost a few.
Fantastic day, thanks again WUF

15 Trout, 1 Other

We spent a pleasant morning on a lovely beat but no fish caught.

Fished mid-beat for a couple of hours am. Water low. 3 small trout on nymph. Lost a good os grayling. Mayfly about but not much rising. Lovely beat.

3 Trout

Last year I fished this little river in a mayfly hatch and whilst there were regular flies hatching on Friday they hatched in far fewer numbers. Despite this, using a mayfly pattern seemed the best way of encouraging a rise. By late afternoon it was all over, although we did catch a couple more of fish on nymphs. I have normally never remained beyond this quiet time but as the sun was still shining we stayed and at about 7pm for 30 mins there was an evening rise when the fish showed themselves again - the fact we didn't add to our tally at that stage was due to nothing other than our own incompetence.

2 Trout

First time for RJ and I at Trelough Pool. Previous feedback was very helpful in planning for the trip and on arrival carp were showing in the arm nearest the car parking. Fished most of the day down by the big oak tree at the far end picking up a couple of 6 lb's on corn and small roach, bream and perch from the margins. As reported by others the lake is shallow, we wondered whether an old fashioned raking would work here. Many thanks to the WUF for making this water available, we will be back.

20 Other

River quite settled and clear. Although many fish were rising through the day, they were very picky, and many fly changes were made. Of the seven fish we caught, about half were on dry and half on tiny nymphs. Best fish was 1.25 lbs, with the others at around the pound mark. Just a note to the foundation; in the six consecutive days we have been fishing on the Usk, we have seen quite a lot of mink. Particularly on the Ashford House beat. Within a two hour period we saw three mink, two of which were dragging some hapless creature back to their respective lairs.

7 Trout