Feedback & Reports

Warm and sunny, river very low, just a dribble of fly life. No, not August but the middle of April. No really, what's going on!
In these poor conditions I was grateful for a fun and productive day. Keeping to the faster, broken water took 11 wbt and 1 out of season grayling. Typical wildies, 6"-10", all returned unharmed. Every fish fell to the weighted point fly (gold head ptn, green). No fish caught on my dropper (spider variants). Strange, my point and dropper usually share the fish.
There seems to be a really good head of trout on this beat and I know from experience that it is stuffed with grayling later in the year.
Thanks as ever to the WUF.

Fished am only, very bright day no fish rising only sunbathing. Nil return but very enjoyable as always.

3 FINGERLINGS. Dear God! More water please.

Water very low .37m. Windy and difficult. Took two 8oz trout on grannom pattern subsurface at Wood Stream. Guest had two parr on similar pattern. All fish returned.

Hot bright day. Water levels low. Plenty of insect life but no surface activity from fish. Caught 1 grayling say 1/4 lb. High banks and what promises to be very high bankside vegetation will be challenging in 6 weeks to fish. Would return here with more water and cloudier day. Downstream end of beat sign hard to spot on roadside bank but its there.

Another beat recommended by Seth at the Foundation which gave another delightful day's fishing. 21 fish in total, mostly trout with a few grayling. The best trout was around 12". Again, the fish were most active early in the morning with several taken in the water below the Edw pool before the sun really got on the water. But they were feeding fairly steadily through most of the day and always offering a chance.
My wife was busy sunning herself by the river when two very noisy canoeists appeared out of nowhere - they were very politely given the Wye and Usk Foundation approved advice and were not seen again!

Sadly a nil catch again. Hugh saw a fish, I saw nothing and was wishing for an inch or two more of water. No worries will be back, hopefully with some fish about.

7 Trout 5" to 7" All returned.

10 Trout all returned. Largest 12" - tough day but enjoyable.

A superb few hours, fishing from 11am until 3.45pm. Caught over 30 fish, with a mixture of trout, grayling and some parr. Most caught on a nymph, but for about 30 mins during a rise of LDO's caught some on an olive emerger pattern.
Largest fish was a very nice 20 inch trout, which fought like a tiger in the fast water.