Feedback & Reports

I fished Ashford House yesterday morning from 6.30 a.m. and saw very little fly. Apart from oncers there were very few rising fish and so we gave up at 1 p.m. My fishing buddy and I had only six fish (but one of 2.25lb) with most taken in running water rather than in the flats and pools, and all on a hare's ear emerger.

By way of contrast, I fished Ty Mawr on the Gwent Anglers water last Thursday evening late and Friday morning very early and had a lot of fish once they started rising. They rose for the last hour or so before dusk and, apart from the oncers, had pretty well stopped rising in the morning by 10 a.m. Fish mainly taken on mini-caddis pupa shuttlecock and small black shuttlecock midge.

Interestingly there appear to be no mini-caddis larva homes on the stones at Talybont whereas there must be billions at Ty Mawr - local species diversity never ceases to amaze me!

Me and my mate fished the beat for 4 days taking 20 barbel up to 8lb and 16 chub up to 5lb. We fished method feeders with 17mm halibut pellets. A little slow during the day when it was very hot. All in all a very enjoyable 4 days fishing.

Me and my mate fished the beat for 4 days taking 20 barbel up to 8lb and 16 chub up to 5lb. We fished method feeders with 17mm halibut pellets. A little slow during the day when it was very hot. All in all a very enjoyable 4 days fishing.

River low, but carrying a little colour. Very bright and hot all day. 2 anglers caught 24 chub to 5lb and 3 barbel to 6lb on a variety of baits, pellet, meat and paste.

10 x trout 6 -13 inches. Mostly small fish on various dries and spiders. A very hot, bright and difficult day with the water now extremely low. Spent some of the afternoon trying unsuccessfully to stalk chub on the shallows.

My own resolution while the weather stays like this is to concentrate on the late evenings on the main rivers, and spend the days on the shady small streams, some of which are fishing extremely well at the moment.

3 small browns on hares ear. Nice beat, pity about the working party that turned up just as I was stating to fish -trucks, quads, tractor with hydralic post rammer! All following me down the beat. You should have made a note on the web site, I would have chosen another beat, and it was my birthday too.

WUF note: Our sincere apologies to Mr Green. This was due to a last minute change to the habitat team work schedule.

Lovely surroundings, and so peaceful. I caught 6 Barbel today to 8 lb 14 oz, a few les than on Whitehouse at the weekend, but still a great day on such a lovely river. All fish fell to small 6mm or 8mm pellets. Cant wait to get back in September. Thankyou W & U Foundation.

Me and my mate fished the beat for 4 days taking 20 barbel up to 8lb and 16 chub up to 5lb. We fished method feeders with 17mm halibut pellets. A little slow during the day when it was very hot. All in all a very enjoyable 4 days fishing.

10 x wild trout, 2 around 14-15 inches, most around 8-10 inches, Klinkhammer to begin and Hackle Mayfly later. A rather muddy river after showers the previous evening - the Monnow colours so easily these days - plus I had a photographer with me from Total Flyfisher so no pressure! But trout were prepared to rise and we had a very nice afternoon. The last of the mayfly for this year, I should think, and as usual I turned over and missed a couple of the larger ones.

This was my second visit to this stunning stretch of river so knew a bit more about where to go and what to do. The river was a lot lower than the last time I was but there is plenty of depth and fast water left in many places.

Weather conditions were perfect - over cast none of with none of the wind that was forecast. Crossed over to the left bank at the top of the gravelly run and walked down to the pool at the bottom. Plenty of flies about and fish rising to them in this pool.

I stuck an Adams on but they were very small fish (should have known really very spalshy rises) so I switched to and klink with a GBHE nymph. Got two trout and two grayling about 10 - 12 inch. The small fish continued to snatch at klink.

Waded back across the gravelly run with ease, bet you cant do that very often. Wandered down to that big flat, shallow section above the middle planks where the fast water runs into a shaded section on the left bank. Got four trout in quick succesion about 10 - 12" on the nymph with small fish snatching away at the klink. Sun broke through the clouds and that was the end of that.

Enjoyed an hour's snooze on the bank in the sun hoping to woken by the sound of rising fish, but to no avail. Decided to return to Cwmbran and come back in the evening, only a 90 mile round trip! Dragged myslef away from a BBQ and returned about 8ish. Lots on flies on the water and some fish rising. These appeared to stop as the sun was setting and shining directly down the river, I couldn't see anything with sun glasses on so I'm sure the fish had problems.

With the sun down fish were rising sporadically, couldn't really focus on one fish, so I just had to cast in the general area none were interested in the usual selection. A few snatches from the youngsters. Cut my losses at 10.15 and went back to re-join the BBQ. In terms of miles driven (200 ish ignoring the drive down to Wales from kent) per fish caught not the most productive day, but always a priveledge to enjoy such stunning surroundings. I shall return!

Thanks as always to the Wye and Usk team, a pleasure to deal with.