Feedback & Reports

After the glories of Glanusk this was something of a disappointment. The day looked promising with some respectable cloud cover, but the fish were just not in the mood. I arrived around 10 a.m. and packed up, fishless, at 7 p.m. For most of the day there was little going on, small fish dimpling the surface after tiny flies. There was rather more activity toward the bottom of the beat where a small stream enters the river: a decent fish was indulging in a series of acrobatics here but resisted my blandishments. I went through all the usual dry fly options: adams, klinkhammer, black gnat, hare's ear, olive etc. and trundled a succession of nymphs through the deeper water at the top of the beat. No good. According to the fishing book at the gate there had been some spectacular catches here in the last couple of weeks, so perhaps the fish were a bit 'browned' off. I hope to return next year for further investigations.

Thank you once again for allowing me to fish this brilliant river. I had a fantastic weekend on Whitehouse. In 3 days I caught 65 Barbel to 9 lb 2 oz, and at least as many chub.
The more I fish this river, the better it seems to get, although the river was quite low and little flow, it didn't seem to matter, the fish were hungry for my baits, mainly small 8mm pellets and small cubes of meat. I also saw a lot of salmon jumping all weekend.

Very hot and bright day with an early start for the first days Barbel fishing. Arrived to find the gate padlocked at 6.30 but a kind Pole told us a sneaky way in via range rover.

Who said eels did not exist as a switch from pellet saw 5 in quick time, all carefully released plus a load of nice chub.

Biggest Barbel went 11lb but a few were lost in a very snaggy bottom at the lower end of the vanstone pool. Saw one salmon but loads of barbel rolling around pretending to be salmon.

Left a bit early, tired, burnt and happy. All canoeists well behaved so thank you.

Fishing with group of friends - others to do own returns.

Caught - 5-6 "tiddlers", 2 Grayling aprox 8 inch, 2 Trout aprox 6 inch.

12 chub from 2lb-5lb and 9 barbel from 3lb to 9.14lb (over 2 days).

Arrived at first light to start another season and yet again was not disappointed with this top class stretch of water taking 17 barbel to 9lb on pellet and 3 good size chub. Will be booking again. Thanks to all at the Wye and Usk.

11 Barbel to 6lb 14ozs. 4 Chub to 2lb 12ozs. All caught on pellets. Approx half caught in the Island pool in the morning and the remainder from the Bridge pool in a short late afternoon session.

7-8 trout and hooked and lost as many again, nearly all on a dry fly. Best was a shade over 2 lbs. All returned. Thanks.

Great opening day. 5 Barbel to 6lb 12 chub to 4Lb all to sweetcorn. The landowner Charles was very pleasant, taking a photo of one of the barbel.

The first time on this beat. The start was a little unnerving as it is unfishable but a quick call to Simom (Wye & Usk team) only to be reassured to persevere upstream past the caravan park where my first cast produced my first of 7 trout. None of them any size max 8" but all fiesty little brownies on light tackle, which had to be very lightly presented. All fish taken on dry flies may fly patterns and black gnat. All fish safely returned. A lovely day if a bit bright and water low. I will return to try the middle section.