Feedback & Reports

Started the day with clear blue sky and rather chilly - but warming up during the morning. Intermittent cloud cover in the afternoon. Water was clear and temperature was ok, height was 0.32m on the Brecon gauge.
Lots of fish in the flats at the top end and also below the bridge. Managed to tempt two nice WBT off the top with small dry white/pale yellow may.
Got one using the "upstream/downstream" method. This is where you cast upstream and the fly lands behind you due to a very strong downstream gust of wind. Must try that again.......
Gate combi working ok.

2 Trout

Five trout to the nets, Olives and Iron blues. A nasty draft down the river for most of the day hindered presentation but patience and a few calmer moments helped us prevail. No Usk gold by any stretch of the imagination but AB finished his week end Usk experience with a grin.
West Ham 4 Tottenham 5.

5 Trout

Caught 3 fish on worm, one on a spinner. Love fishing here, great day, great views. Love it.

4 Sea Trout

Worm and spinner

3 Trout

6 Trout

The water was a foot above ideal [0.84mtr @ Ross] and the colour of tea which made wading less than ideal and the fly almost invisible. Not to worry, a fat trout found it! A spell with the spinning rod produced nothing either but that didn’t matter as I had just spent 45 minutes filming an otter that was porpoiseing around me in search of small eels, fantastic!
I did take the opportunity to test my theory regarding a #8 rate switch rod from the right bank to bottom of beat and yes it can fish through with either a short back-cast or a roll cast, accessing the run opposite the island too. Ideal for the summer month perhaps?

1 Trout

Sunny and warmer than it has been (~10oC) but with a fresh downstream wind. Water clear and 11in on the gauge. Started at 11:00 and had a 1 1/4lb on the nymphs upstream of the bridge. Moved downstream of the bridge and at 12:30 a hatch of march browns started. Good number of fish rising to them. Had 5 up to 2lb on a parachute. At 13:30 the hatch stopped and all went quiet. Fished nymphs all the way to the end of the beat and had another 4.

10 Trout

4 trout caught, 3 others released. Caught with worm on the bottom. Excellent condition fish. 1 had a large hole in the side which looked like a cormorant or heron had had a go but overall in good condition and healthy.

4 Trout

Did not catch any fish very disappointed I was using worms but the people next to me were using power bait and we're catching a lot. I think someone should be going around checking what bait people are using. This is not the first time this has happened to me. I am not saying this because I didn't catch anything. I am saying it because I have been going fishing up the Usk since I was a kid and now I'm taking my children there and it's not fair as it's spoiling it for everyone

Caught whilst fly fishing for salmon on a Dee Monkey conehead tube. Fish was around 2 and a half pounds.

1 Sea Trout