Feedback & Reports

We arrived about 11.30am and fished with nymph PTN size 16 and 18 gold head a couple of rises taking terrestrials no hatch. Lovely brook, caught 2 trout and lost about 4. Finished at 4.30pm and went to Abbey Dore for the evening hoping for a rise. Good weather warm with little wind.

2 Trout

2 Salmon lost on beat 6 and 4 on a 3" red waddington and a 1" size 12 monkey tube. Fished floating lines only. 4 fish seen on same 2 beats. River running a good height and clear. Excellent fly water on mid and lower beat 2 , beat 4 and the bottom of beat 6. Beat 6 produced 7 trout to 2 lb - fit and very aggressive.
Saw 1 canoe on beat 2 and no other rods - seems extremely under-fished. There are fish there on the mid river and enjoying little attention apparently! A real pleasure and much helped by Terry Ward's kind advice. We enjoyed a quick lunch at the Boat Inn at changeover between beats.
Strong 'recommend' for Whitney Court.

Conditions perfect. Water 2ft 4ins. No fish caught although we saw 2 fish during the day. Colin the Ghillie excellent as always. Very enjoyable day.

5 Trout

Fine spring day. River perfect. Four fish between 6 and 12 inches, all on dry fly in the afternoon when temperature warmed there were and some limited fly hatches. Foundation's service impeccable again.

4 Trout

Heavy rain over previous days had coloured the water, however it improved throughout the day. Caught one very small (5") brown trout on a wet Greenwells Glory. Beat itself was very pretty but found that a lot of it couldn't actually be fished due to steep banks and undergrowth. Booking office were very helpful. I was on holiday so couldn't print out the details to leave on windscreen as required, so they contacted the owners of the beat to let them know. Great system for booking fishing - I hope I will be back in the area in the future to use it again.

1 Trout

Three 6" trout caught on dries. I should have landed more as there were numerous fish rising. River level good with plenty of slower deeper runs.

3 Trout

No salmon caught or seen. One chub about 5lb caught on salmon fly which made the heart miss a beat!

1 Chub

Nothing rising but managed to connect with a few fish on the nymph. In the confluence pool of the Monnow and Escley a grayling around 16" took in the tail of the pool. It was egg laden so we treated her very carefully and slipped her back. Otherwise the fish in great condition. Lovely beat this, wish it was longer or bolted onto part of the old Upper Longtown beat.

6 Trout

Wet fly on floating line used - using a sedgehog / green peter wet fly. 2 Trout of 1lb and a small trout and grayling of 1lb taken in faster water at the back edge of runs before opening into slacker water.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling