Feedback & Reports

Slow fishing in the morning but an improvement after lunch. All fish approx. 2 to 2.5 lbs.
An enjoyable days fishing but yet again marred by the litter left by others, including two chairs, bottles, cans etc. Why go to a remote and pleasant location and despoil it?

5 Trout

Difficult access to water in parts. Long uphill walk back from midpoint access. A local reported three families of goosander taking fish here.

4 trout around 15inches, 2 smaller. All on small goldhead pheasant tail nymph. Pleasant water with generally easy access.

6 Trout

You would have thought for the first week in June you might hope for better things but the three of us fished all day and saw very few flies and even less fish! Lovely stretch of river that promised more.

8.40am Acrobatic silver 14lber lost on a Cascade in the Cafn Pool after 6 minutes of racing around!

First time on this beat but managed to cover most of the catches with fly as indicated on a very detailed beat description.
Some salmon were appparently showing in the Rectory Pool but none seen by me. Looking forward to next visits later in month, weather permitting.

Amazing day. AH caught two salmon on Usk Grub Fly. 9lb and 11.5lbs.
Stuart Reid caught 9lber on same fly and a 14lb fish on Blue Devon minnow.
The two smaller fish slightly coloured and the two bigger ones fairly fresh. Plenty of fish seen.

4 Salmon

Fished 15.00 until dusk. River looked to be more than a foot lower than last week and very clear. Started below the island at the downstream end where I tempted a small brown on olive dry. Then switched to small black nymph and caught another. Worked the nymph across and upstream without result. Fishing started to rise at 20.00 when I took three more.
A glorious day and the perfect end to our holiday.

5 Trout

Water looked good and and 3 fish seen running through beat @ c. 8am. Fished hard but clearly not very competently.
Mid afternoon break for trout in afternoon was upstream nymphing fun. An enjoyable day as ever.

6 Trout

Pouring rain for much of the day. Limited fly activity. There was a spell for 30 mins around 11am at the top end of the beat when the fish were rising to a Klinkhammer and I should have taken 5 fish of variable sizes. Ended up with 1 around 10 inches which was returned. Very quiet for the remainder of the day and took another fish about 10 inches on a gold head which was also returned.

4 Trout