Feedback & Reports

Sunny in the morning, cloudier in afternoon. Air temperature, low 20's. Water temperature 14/15C. River low with bottom covered in slimy weed (algae?) in slowest stretches. River in need of a spate.
Arrived at 11am to localised hatch of olives. Caught 5 good trout on dry Parachute Adams, best 20 inches (2lb 14oz)- a superb fish and best from the Usk. River became dead in mid afternoon.

5 Trout

Cold start to the day but the weather soon warmed up. Best barbel was 9lb 11ozs and biggest chub was 5lb 1oz. All fish were caught on feeder using various combinations of pellet.

6 Barbel, 14 Chub

On our first visit to The Creel, we were impressed with the setting and appearance of the beat but had difficulty in finding safe swims down the very steep banks. It appears not to be yet fully established as a coarse fishery and the places we fished would be dangerous in wet or high water conditions. It was a beautiful day, however and once fishing we enjoyed our catch of six barbel to eight pounds and a bag of lively chub and were amused by the comings and goings of the hundreds of Canada Geese. The wild side of the Wye at its best?

6 Barbel, 8 Chub

Conditions were perfect and the river was starting to fine down.

3 Barbel, 5 Chub

Weather overcast, with drizzle in the morning, sunny through afternoon. Wye was in good condition after recent rain, fishing excellent. 12 chub caught, all good size, four well over 5lb. Barbel were harder to find had to move around and eventually bagged one of 8lb.
All were caught on hair rigged halibut pellet with ground bait feeder. Fishing did die as bright conditions moved in. Fished 7am to 5pm. Very good days fishing and thanks to Terry for his sound Advice.

1 Barbel, 12 Chub

Fished from 10.30am to 4.30pm. Arrived in very wet conditions with a nasty down stream wind for the first 2hrs . Nothing on any type of lead/tungsten/bead head nymph, no rises. Small amount of fly life. Worked upstream to top pool, river fast flow very clear. Tried a reverse parachute dry fly, long body and was rewarded with a magnificent wbt of 16 inches with Kype nose. 3 casts later, a grayling of 18 inches, approx 2lbs. Both fish from the same run. Other fish all to the same type of fly. What a great day!

7 Trout, 3 Grayling

Decided to celebrate the beginning of September with a trip to CLG, where the beat was its usual lovely late summer self and the water clear with the level ideal at a tad less than 0.5m. on the Cilmery guage. A perfect day weather-wise as well: some sun, some cloud, some breeze, some still conditions. Very little fly at any time - morning, afternoon and early evening - but there were a couple of significant rises around midday and mid-afternoon, with the odd fish showing in between. Tried spiders, nymphs and emergers and ended up with 27 grayling and five trout. None of the trout exceeded ten inches and most of the grayling were 8-10 inches but a few larger fish showed up as well - two 16" at about 1.5lb, one 15", two 14" and two 12" ladies obligingly took the emergers. Most fish were taken with a small hare's ear emerger, grayling steel blue or UB Duck's Dun, all flies tempting both rising and non-rising fish. The rest came to a skinny pink nymph and red tag spider. A lovely day marred only by a small ceremonial dip! At least the water wasn't too cold and the belt kept the nether regions dry - plans to fish the evening however were left for another day!

5 Trout, 27 Grayling

Hard work today, very little water moving through the stream, not much hatching and little sign of fish. Did manage to get 1 to the net though and lost another - both took a small DHE.

1 Trout

Muddy red Klink-hammer, elk hair sedge.

8 Trout, 2 Grayling

All fish returned.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling