Feedback & Reports

My first experience of this beautiful beat. A rather cold and overcast morning with nothing much showing. It took me three hours to reach the midpoint, so many interesting fishy pools to explore. Six fish, all to nymphs including one 12” beauty from the pool just below where the Triffrwd joins.

6 Trout

Cloudy and overcast all day but dry and cold. The river was running clear and there was little evidence of either fish or fly activity in the morning when I arrived (08-00hrs.)
First time wading and only my second time river fly fishing. Found it all a bit wobbly but great fun. Tried nymphs first then a dry without success. After lunch noticed some good fly activity which turned out to be a good may hatch and took my 3 fish on a mayfly. The fish were having a feeding frenzy and had I been more experienced and skilful would have caught more. A great experience and will return.

3 Trout

A cold day for the time of year, few rising trout. Saw no rising fish in the morning. And fell in, so had to return to my van on the caravan site in Pandy for dry clothes, and a snooze. Went back later, saw a few rising fish and managed to catch one trout, 7 inches. Lost a second, missed a few more.

1 Trout

Caught nothing and getting a bit fed up of having to leave early because of inconsiderate behaviour from other anglers. Extremely loud music being played that could be heard all around the water.

River still running quite high for this tricky wading beat, (river temperature is more than refreshing still!)but this year the Usk is fishing extremely well, think water temperatures have remained low. Caught on nymph in pocket and dry in flats. Great to see smaller <6inch trout being caught showing the population of trout thriving as long as we all practice careful catch and release. The Usk is a gem, lets keep it that way.

18 Trout

The river was on the high side and had a tinge of colour in it. We met Nathan in the morning and he was very helpful and knowledgeable. He showed us the main areas on how to fish the pools. We started with the fly and then focused with the spinner later on as the river was not clearing. It is a lovely beat and Nathan has been working hard to clear the banks. I can see with less water then there would be some lovely bits of fly water. There were plenty of fish moving through the beat but no fish for us as they were running through the beat. A good day out and I will defiantly return.

I've been very unlucky this season. Every time I fish there is a strong upstream wind... and so there was again today! It was rather cold, but there were still good hatches of fly including mayfly. The swifts were taking them from around my head at one point! My friend caught 3 reasonable trout, and I caught nothing... I don't know what is wrong with me... I hooked 7 and they all got off very quickly.

3 Trout

1 small brown trout caught on a dry fly. Many missed! No fish taken. Beautiful beat and a fantastic day out.

1 Trout

Very cold day, with easterly wind. We picked off the odd fish, as we worked our way up the beat, mostly on dries, then, in the early afternoon at the top run, suddenly substantial numbers of flies appeared on the water, including: olives, sedges, yellow May duns, and a few mayfly. There were fish rising every where, but surprisingly 'picky'. I lost a huge trout which took in 4-6 ins of water. Fly was a sz. 18 March Brown. The fish shot across the river in a cloud of spray! These are the moments that linger in your memory! However we managed to catch 14 trout, one of which was 2.5 lbs, another of 2 lbs, and several of the others were around 1.25 lbs. Many fish lost, but most caught were on dries. Very absorbing fishing!

14 Trout

Few mayfly around. Great hatch of ldo's & bwo's. Trout came up had cracking day with fish to 2.5lbs.

12 Trout