Feedback & Reports

Steven Grimwood caught another hen fish around 20lb this time on a blue and silver minnow on Friday evening on April 11th.
Robin Woods (see photo) caught a 7lb cock fish on spinner this morning (14th April), both fish in the Aber pool. Other fish have been seen! Also Ben woods has caught two large trout on Rapala, both over 3lb, one was very silver so may have been a sea trout? All returned.

2 Salmon

Fished entire beat above bridge with intermediate 10 line and Usk Grub and Willie Gunn Tube, Water .88m and difficult to wade to normal spots. Reverted to sub surface trout 1-3pm using March Brown and Partridge and orange spiders to no effect. No rise.
Fished Monday 21st which was a clear day but with a cold SE wind. Water .78m to .80m but again no rise on the trout. Fished deeper with team of weighted 14 nymphs but only attracted par. Fished 4hrs for salmon through to Chine from top run with no takes.
Disappointing considering water level.

Rematch with my 14 yr old this time the prize for the biggest fish...guess what... He got it again with a lovely brownie of around 12".
River was absolutely teeming with lampreys on the shallows. Literally thousands of them, never seen so many in over 30 yrs of river fishing!

3 Trout, 2 Grayling

Arrived to find the river carrying a tinge of colour and a bit of extra water-Perfect conditions.
Fished a French type leader with a single nymph, swopped between a copper and silver bead pheasant tail pattern.
Fished from the bottom of the beat upstream to the top of the beat, exploring all the little pockets and the deeper pools. Caught 30 plus trout mostly 6" to 7" with a few 10" to 12" and one 14"
Most fun I ever had stood up!
A note ref the booking system - I was more than disappointed when the vouchers were withdrawn and the new wild stream online booking was introduced perhaps because I didn't understand how it worked but now I have sampled it I have to admit that the new system is far superior and I like the fact I can now book and secure the fishing I want when I want-perfect.

30 Trout

Water still coming down after the rain 2 days ago and a cool breeze ,however managed a 13 inch fish on a gold head GRHE and a 12 inch in the brief March Brown hatch at 14.00. Lost 2 others. Fished 11.00 to 16.00.

2 Trout

River at a very fishable height and perfect colour fished fly all day. Sadly no salmon seen or felt. Good numbers of decent sized trout active all day with good hatches of olives and sedges right through the day. Lovely day to be on the river. Lots of inviting fly water on this beat. Very enjoyable.

5 Trout

9 Trout

Overcast cool day with a fair breeze from West to East over the dam wall. All fish caught on a sinking line with either a green lure or a white bug eyed thing pulled evenly through the water.

5 Trout

10 fish to 10 inches on a beat for short rods and improvised casting. The first few fish I rose came short to a size 20 klinkhammer. By switching to a larger dry fly with a size 18 hare's ear on a 12 inch dropper, I started to hook fish.

10 Trout

Cold and water quite high made this a challenging few hours fishing. However this is a very fishy looking beat and I will return. One nice fish well over a pound to an Adams during a brief sporadic hatch of LDO's.

1 Trout