Feedback & Reports

Beautiful surrounding, great weather, falling river, with colour, and 6 fish caught. Early morning Chub, (4lb) on maggot feeder. Moved swim around midday, found deeper water, switched to pellet feeder which gave up 1 Barbel around the 7lb mark, and several Chub between 2 and 5 lb.
Lost another probably bigger Barbel to the net.
All fish caught on first field on entering fishery. Will be back to Middle Ballingham next season.

1 Barbel, 5 Chub

I'm sure there are fish in the river. Well, I'm fairly sure. Perhaps it was just me. Beautiful beat, lovely day, not a fish to be seen, heard, or felt on the end of a line. Just one of those days I suppose. Lovely place though.

River slightly high, very cold. Method used Klink and dink some fish taken on dries. Also tungsten beaded nymphs. Some fish on swing round and on hang. Generally very good for the time of year and conditions. Sporadic rise when sun broke through.

5 Trout, 17 Grayling

Another day of unfathomable Usk fishing! Good river height, reasonable air temperature, proven flies from previous visits but no hatch to speak of with very few fish looking up? Good to see the kingfisher and the dipper and see the otter tracks, amazed to see and photograph a virtually tame mink! A great day to enjoy the lovely Welsh countryside in spite of the Usk trout fishing having seen better days!

Lovely day, fished entire beat on various beaded nymphs, no sign of any fish - must be hiding somewhere!

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

5 Trout, 9 Chub

A milder night with water starting to fine down but water temp. still only 6c. Bright sunshine, air temp. only 10c.
Fished pegs just up stream from road side parking. Had a 6lb 5oz barbel first cast on 4oz feeder and 12mm halibut pellet. Both of us didn't have a bite for the rest of the day. Finished at 1.00pm a long way back to Boston.

1 Barbel

Caught full bag of 4 fish. 1 on spinner, others on worm pop ups. Nice to see the sun out and appreciate the fantastic scenery.

4 Trout

River was slightly high and coloured. Fished with a wide range of baits but failed to get any bites.