Feedback & Reports

7lbs spinning. Sea lice. No response to fly although water now perfect for it.

1 Salmon

This was my first time on the Usk. The weather was overcast when I arrived, the river looked in fine form but no fish were showing. I caught quite quickly on a gold head but quickly changed to a dry fly as by mid morning fish were taking flies off the surface. The fly life was spectacular at times with many different flies coming off including Mayflies. By lunch time the sun was shining, it was very bright and the fish stopped showing on the surface but I persisted with a Mayfly imitation as Mayflies were coming off in increasing numbers. I caught no more fish despite my best efforts but this was due to my inexperience rather then the beat as it obviously has plenty of trout as they were taking flies all over when I left...just not mine!
Will be back for another go before too long.

1 Trout

The sun came out around midday when I started fishing from the downstream limit. The river was alive with mayfly and swarms of smaller two tailed spinners (iron blues?), plus small and large birds, mostly unidentified but I thought one was an owl silently flying away. All fish caught on dry fly, mostly using one that bore some resemblance to a mayfly. I kept moving and fished almost the whole beat, which was a lot of wading! 8 wbt between 5 and 9 inches, and spooked countless risers.

8 Trout

Good days fishing on the Edw. Looked perfect for the dries, but very few rises. 2 trout on a Adams, 10 on PTN size 16. 5"-10".

12 Trout

River in good order, weather sunny but with a horrible downstream wind that made fishing awkward and probably kept flylife down. Not many fish showing but a salmon did leap a couple of times at the start of the large shingle. WBT & Grayling taken on deep nymphs and salmon parr on a spider.
Thanks to all at WUF for providing another great place to enjoy.

1 Trout, 3 Grayling, 1 Other

Bright day, clear water. Very few fish rising.

Overall, quite a difficult day - worked hard for the fish I had - all taken on the dry. Managed to winkle out a nice 3/4 pounder from just 8" of water, which was the fish of the day. Lovely stretch of river.

4 Trout

1 x bream, couple small carp under 10lb. Very shallow water. Would I fish it again? Not sure.

3 Other

Good fish 1x 1lb 2 oz. All fish returned.

4 Trout

36 or more to hand 4 of which grayling. Fished from 10a.m - 3.30 p.m klink and dink for first two hours with size 18 natural cdc black bodied f-fly with size 18 tungsten beadhead below. This took about 12 trout and four grayling. By noon they were locked on mayfly with dunns being sipped down in slower water and emergers in the faster heads of pools and in the foam lanes. foam bodied size 12 mayfly brought 20+to hand. A good day on a good beat.

36 Trout