Feedback & Reports

Beautiful venue but very small head of fish, lost 2 good sized trout on small gold head squirrel tail. On talking to a local angler who doesn't bother to fish there any more due to low fish stocks, (his words not mine) it makes searching for the odd fish frustrating. Never the less I will be back!!

14 x 4-12 inch fish plus a good few salmon parr. Mostly on CDC dries and the odd nymph from faster water, fish rising in every pool, great afternoon fishing.

14 Trout

Nil return

Good days fishing. Had a big take from a large salmon who turned from 40 yards and came straight at me. I was wading at waist high in the stones and he came within 3 feet, passed me like a rocket and jumped out of the water onto the gravel behind me, threw the Devon Minow and jumped again back into the water. I saw him on the gravel - he looked well into the 20lbs plus. I stood there shock as it all happened so quick. I had kept a tight line as when he threw the lure it came back and hit me in the shoulder. What an experience.

I had a fabulous day on the Middle Escley. The weather was warm and sunny. When I arrived at the river it looked a little coloured at the very beginning of the beat and where it flowed under the bridge however as I moved on the water became clearer.I struggled to get through the first couple of fences but the effort is well worth it - in my opinion the river becomes even better as you move upstream. There was a amazing amount of fly life, midges, sedges, black gnats various olives and an extraordinary hatch of large up-wing flies - I thought at first they were Mayflies but surely it was too early for them and would it be too late for March Browns? anyway the hatch was fantastic even though my eyesight was not! Unfortunately, I did encounter the lady owner of the property near the river and wished I had paid more attention to a previous piece of feedback and avoided any confrontation by taking the footbridge just below her land. Whilst I fished through, I kept religiously to the right bank and had a reasoned discussion with her although it was clear that anglers cause her great distress. Rather like Betsy Trottwood and her donkeys, she hears her dog barking at the approaching angler and rushes out to confront them for fishing though "her garden" as she described it. It seems for her a bit of a moral crusade, declaring "we are vegetarians and care for the fish".
I felt this was an argument I was not going to win so (very cordially) I walked through "her garden" to above the waterfall and fished on.
I caught 6 beautiful wild brown trout - one of a size that I needed my net to land. All on a parachute Adams. Occasionally casting to a rare rising fish I had most success casting into likely places. I rose and missed quite a few more. I bailed out pretty well exhausted at a ford near Neuadd-lwd thinking I must be near the end! What a beat - had I really only fished just over half of it!
I'll be back - thank you Wye and Usk what a privilege to fish here.

6 Trout

Caught 2 trout but had to leave by 1pm due to other commitments.

2 Trout

2 Trout

A stretch of this lovely river I've ignored so far but I should have not done so for so long! I had a great day catching plenty of nice quality fish on a variety of fly fishing methods. Fish were rising between 10am and 4pm in all types of water on the beat but I was unable to determine what they were eating! Poor old chap with failing eyesight dredges up feeble excuse. I cannot therefore pass on any wisdom to those who follow in my footsteps other than I took fish from slower, deeper stretches on small klinkhammers (black), fish from broken water on elk hair caddis and some from both types on a hares ear fished Klink and Dink.
A lovely day on a nice stretch of river.

11 Trout

Water slightly coloured; no rising fish all day; downstream nymphing. One fish kept.

20 Trout, 4 Grayling

Beautiful day, lots of fly hatches, started on wet fly took 3 small brown trout largest 300g, switched to dry in the afternoon took a further 8 fish all 300 - 700g beautiful condition, lots of rises in the quarry pool & the bend, excellent day, beautiful spot all fish returned & happy.

11 Trout