Feedback & Reports

Lane was very wet & not good for standard cars. Lovely section of river but do not wear shorts. T C caught his first barbel then another 7 and I had 6 between 5 and 9lbs. Most on pellet but some on meat. Best swims at end of section. Travel light or even better take a 4 wheel drive.

7 or 8 trout in the 7 - 10" range to the net and as many lost as well as a few parr. Fished mainly duo with most of the fish coming to a small nymph. Very few fish showing at the surface and sport totally dried up between 1.30pm & 6.30pm. A nice day & some beautiful water.

High water level, difficult wading, but fishable. No salmon cought but couple of pretty brown trouts, all returned. Amazing stretch. Thanks to WUF.

A good day, river up a little and coloured but dropped through the day. 10 Barbel to 8.9lb, one lone Chub and an Eel. Pellet and feeder was the tactic.
Lots of feeders lost in the rocks but didnt spoil the day.

Following an unsuccessful day at Ty-Newydd the previous day we thought we'd try the Usk as it looked as though it had dropped a litle overnight. The river was running at 9.4 on the gauge at Chainbridge when we arrived with maybe a foot of visability (although still very red in colour) and dropped to 9 by the end of the day. James landed a 13lb colouring cock fish from the Rock Pool on his fourth cast of the day which put up a good scrap. The fish took a small Park Shrimp tube fished on a floating line. No more action then until around 4pm when I landed a fresh 5lb grilse spinning from just below the bridge from the steps by the gauage where it didn't seem possible to fish the fly. We didn't see any other fish all day but no doubt they were there. A very enjoyable days fishing.

0 fish caught. 0 fish seen. Water was fairly clear and clearing.

Another great day on this lovely stretch of river. Arrived to find river up and coloured, this dropped throughout the day. Moved a couple of times to find fishable slacks and ended with 11 barbel to just into double figures.

Some fished worm, some with fly. Only three trout caught. One small wild brown trout returned. Thanks.

Good days fishing. 6 barbel, 1 chub. River was running about 3ft on.

4 x trout 4-8 inches on small Klinkhammer. Blackpool Brook was the only running water I could find which was not in flood after yesterday's rain, and in fact this stream was fairly well coloured. Still, a few little trout were prepared to put up their heads. 8 inches is actually not a bad fish for the Blackpool Brook. And it saved me from gardening or DIY or some other such dubious activity