Feedback & Reports

Only a short session but caught 2 brown trout about 10", 2 chub about the same size, and a few small dace. Would benefit from a flush through (as would everywhere). Weather was warm and fly life was abundant, few fish were rising but tough not to spook them with the low flow. Fish were risen to the dry, but all were hooked on a black flashback. Lovely beat and looking forward to fishing it again.

Sadly, after 6 hours of fishing neither of us caught anything, despite seeing a few rises. We were forewarned that the water was low, but even so it was a pleasure to be on such a delightful stretch! We look forward to making use of the passport scheme.

Bright sunny day 17 degrees C. Brook looked in superb condition but very few fish evident perhaps because it was early and bright? Heavy midge hatches and intermittant sedges failed to bring anything to feed on the surface until after 3pm. Caught 3 small (1/4lb) brown trout on a green humpy, sizes 14, near the bottom of the beat.

Really good piece of river but water levels were very low in my opinion. As for the fishing really disappointing on the trout side, NO fish in sight, did not manage to see a single trout, no even small trout fleeing or fish moving, nothing ... it was surreal, we managed to see Graylings in some pools but absolutely ZERO trouts. We witnessed a big hatch of sedges but despite this we saw no trouts whatsoever - we came from the Irfon the previous day with same sort of levels but we saw and catch few trouts - it looked like the all population of trouts disappeared from this beat

NTR :(

Clear water, sunny day with a light breeze. Good hatch earlier in the day. 1 Trout and a couple of Grayling, all on the dryfly. A pleasant and challenging few hours.

1 Brownie 8½" on a PTN beautiful stretch.

2 Brown Trout 7" and 10"

3 x Brown Trout largest 12oz, Tough conditions, very bright, very low water.

Blanked. Only had one bite all day. Moved around, but couldn't compete with coarse anglers using worms, all over. I went there thinking that it would be bailiffed properly. However the coarse anglers were everywhere and as such no fly fishers could get any bites. Won't be visiting there again as I feel £17.50 is too much to waste on fishing where I dont even get a chance of a single bite. Pity it was too busy and like a free for all. Needs more bailiffing.
WUF NOTE: The Usk reservoir is fly fishing only at the western end. We will forward this feedback to Welsh Water.

What a glorious day to be in Wales the drive from Crickhowell to Brecon was a joy. Penpont is never an easy days fishing in my experience, but what a fantastic day to be on the water, beautiful spring sunshine and the air crisp and fresh. I intended to leave for my return to Kent about 2 ish so I targeted the pools that I had found productive in the past, caught a nice 10 inch brown on GRHE, may have missed a couple. Day seemed ripe for a hatch, waited in the warm sunshine for some fly activity, none materialised, nymphed the pool again but no success this time.
Called into to see Jean at Sweets on the way back, picked up some of her ridiculously cheap hand tied flies, as ever, an offer of a cup of tea. If you haven’t paid Jean a visit please do so, independents like this need our support. We both agreed a torrential downpour of three days duration was needed. Consensus is, from spooned fish, that they are feeding on the bottom, lots of snails apparently.