Feedback & Reports

1st time fishing any of the WUF beats. Got there early doors and in my excitement walked three meadows only to find I'd left my bait in the car. Made the trip again, but still forgot my hali crush for blocking feeder, gutted! Had PVA, so using this method fished several swims in the morning slowly making my way back to the car for lunch. Caught 2 Barbel to 6lbs and 2 small chub on 2 8mm Halibut pellets superglued to hair with PVA stocking full of pellets. In the afternoon and once reunited with hali crush took 18 Barbel to 8lb 11oz again on 2 superglued 8mm pellets; however, this time with an open ended feeder full of pellets and blocked with hali crush. Warning! - lost several fish early in afternoon on rocks, you really do need to hall these fish up hard and to keep their heads up.

Morning vs. afternoon - was it time of day, swim, or tatctics? Guess I'll never no. Beautiful location and excellent fishing. Will definitely return. Thanks WUF!!

Just a quick line to register a nil return for my day on Bridge Meadow on the Usk.

Very slow day, bright & sunny, only a few Chub all day up to about 4 pounds.

This was a last-minute booking having received an e-mail from the Foundation regarding late availability on this beat - much appreciated, as it helped me to decide which beat to fish! The river was still carrying some colour, but had obviously dropped significantly over the weekend. Fished from about 11am to 6.30pm, mostly in bright sunshine, so a catch of 4 barbel, with a brace at 8lb 14oz and 9lb 8oz and a single chub of 3lb 8oz seemed a fair return given the conditions. The usual pellet and meat were the successful baits.

Awesome fishing, river low, and sparse hatches of flies during the afternoon. Couple of dozen grayling nothing much bigger than a pound. and a dozen or so trout best 2lb on a Klinkhammer. Fish came to a range of pheasant tail type nymphs, Klinkhammer and Olive emerger CDC patterns. Wonderful experience of an otter fishing the same pool at the same time, seemed to be totally oblivious to me and came within a 10ft or so. still caught fish in the pool after he went through!!! Lots of other predators on beat, you may have an issue with Cormorants (*2) and goosanders. Large flock (12+) birds in the upper area of the beat.

3 x trout around 11 inches, 3 x grayling around 12 inches plus 7 other smaller grayling. All taken on goldhead PT and spider patterns. No trout seen rising all day, only small grayling.

River about 1ft up and fining down after the weekend flood water. Fished from 3pm - 8pm. Only saw half a dozen canoes. Had a barbel on the third cast using hemp and groundbait feeder with pellet hookbait. No free offerings. Caught steadily up to 12 fish, biggest went 8lb exactly. Great to catch fish in bright sunlight. They all fought and went back really well with the fresh water in the river. Many thanks WUF!

Only an hour or two at Gromain. No other rods present.
Also a guest, Ben Jobling-Purser, fished briefly at The Rectory. Both blank sadly. Lovely afternoon & evening though

Unfortunately a Nil return - lots of tugs but no takers.

After an unproductive morning with the first 2 swims only producing one small chub, I finally found the barbel feeding in the third swim, taking 8 fish to 7lb 8ozs and one further chub of 3lb 8ozs. All fish taken on Halibut pellets.