Feedback & Reports

1 brown trout
Access to the river was poor. The island and the opposite bank were totally inaccessible. Needs maintenance.

1 Trout

The nicest evening of the week, quite a good hatch of olives but again few fish taking them. Managed 1 small fish on a PTN and three others on a stack winged olive; best was around a pound and was very welcome.

4 Trout

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

Strong north wind making casting awkward. Good fly hatch, with numerous large dark olives. Several fish took the dry fly, but failed to latch on. Finally, caught two three quarter pounders, in water less than welly boot depth. We have noticed, that on the Usk, fish seem to be very happy to settle in very shallow water when feeding; so my advice is to approach the water very quietly, and start fishing well back from the waters edge, as several times we disturbed fish by overlooking this!

2 Trout

12lb fresh fish taken on an Usk Grub on Hereford and District town water.

1 Salmon

Another blank day, no signs of fish until about 4 o'clock when I saw a smallish fish breaking the surface a few times, covered it 4 or 5 times but no luck.

Hatches of large Olives occurring as we arrived at the beat and continued until early afternoon. Fish caught in the slower deeper runs on dries and also towards the top of the beat in the faster water. Some large fish spotted in the lower sections but none caught. One very good trout hooked but sadly lost on nymphs in a faster run near the top of the beat.
A very enjoyable day with lots going on and fairly good weather conditions.
Access was difficult at the bottom half of the beat where the banks were steep. Leaving the water was a real challenge as ones foothold in the soft soil often gave way. It would be very helpful if access and egress points were created at some of the more popular runs, with some form of ladder or rope assistance.

11 Trout

First ever Wye salmon on the fly! Home tied at that, called "Harriets Best" thanks no 1 daughter. 14 lb, released strong, caught at tail of the rapids on beat 6. Had 2 other raging takes during the day but not stuck. 10 year break from salmon fishing with lots of memories of fishless hours, wiped clean, good day!

1 Salmon, 1 Trout

Cool, overcast start but lovely afternoon on this extremely attractive 'fishy' looking beat. Unfortunately, despite a reasonable hatch of upwings including Mayflies the fish didn't come out to play with less than a handful of fussy fish seen rising all day. We would like to think this was due to the river being above normal level and incomplete tree canopy cover rather than a lack of fish.

Syndicate rod, Dr. Spence took a superbly fresh 15lb fish he saw show on beat 5 to a small toby.