Feedback & Reports

First trip to the Usk with the background of beacon's a magical setting. Shame about the weather hailstorm and snow one minute then the sun came out for half an hour and a olive hatch with brought on the fish.caught a lovely little brown that fought every inch to the net.looking forward to my return.

1 Trout

Very good mornings fishing apart from the snow, all fish caught by 11.30.

12 Trout

Great afternoon's fishing with plenty of action. A few olives hatching but no real rises. Most of the fish were caught on small copper coloured tungsten bead nymph.
One point to be aware of is that there is a large tree down, which dams the river, by the second gate from the start of the beat. The only way is to climb over the trunk as there is no way round it.

8 Trout, 1 Grayling

18lb fresh fish, absolute bar of silver for Ed Brown on fly.

1 Salmon

Cold wind with sunny spells, limited fly hatch. Couple of light takes on wet fly, no trout caught. Beautiful stretch of water.

Utterly miserable day! Arrived in sunshine but nearly had my door blown off by the wind as I got out of the car. Decided to walk to the very end of the beat and fish my way back to the car, but by the time I was as far from the car as I could be I was caught in a snow, hail and sleet storm with biting cold wind which lasted all morning. Got back to the car soaking wet and freezing cold but at least the sun had come out again. I got dry and warm and headed back to the river where there was as sporadic half-hearted hatch of upwings just enough to rise the odd trout or two in the fast riffley stretch, I managed two nice sized fish on a small dry fly but double hauling into a gale force downstream wind isn't much fun so called it a day. Beautiful, well maintained stretch, will be back before too long.

2 Trout

Unseasonably cold with cold downstream wind and hail and rain squalls. WT 8.5C. AT from 6 -10C. Cloudy with some sunny intervals later. Good hatches, mainly olives starting around 12.30pm and continuing intermittently until around 3.30pm. Caught 3 trout, best 1lb 6oz on dry olive, at about 1.30pm, during an intense hatch. Generally, the better fish were 'keeping their heads down', probably as a result of the chill, and most rising fish seemed small. It was encouraging to see the insect life and the numbers of small fish.

3 Trout

Clear water but a chilly day. Sheltered in the valley away from the worst of the wind. Hail shower middle of the day. Nice 14" wbt from pool in front of house at bottom of the beat. Caught on dry March brown. Raised a second fish in the same pool no less than 4 times to 3 different dries but he wasn't biting. Kept me interested for a good half hour. One other rise but no activity at all on the upper part of the beat. Saw the blue flash of a kingfisher. Aswan was enjoying surfing down the rapids. In the last field I was accosted by two lambs wanting food. Must have been bottle reared. A charming way to end a very pleasant day.

1 Trout

Very tough conditions but a steady hatch of LDO's and a few MB's from 1.30pm onwards made for some good sport on the dry fly.Nothing over 15" and all in good condition.A very large Otter swam right up to me in the Vicarage pool, I think he wanted to let me know who the top fisherman was in this part of the river!

7 Trout

I started fishing from Parking no 3, the stream was lovely with lots of features. Casting was difficult with overhanging branches and I would highly recommend using a wading staff or studs if anyone intends to wade as the rocks were extremely slippery.There are couple of high cliffs especially on the other side of the bridge on Parking no 3 which can be dangerous if not been careful. I didn't manage to fish all the stretch as I had limited time to fish but I will be coming back soon. I caught a lovely brownie on the blue pool using Czech nymphing with my own tied nymph.

1 Trout