Feedback & Reports

I went down to the home waters for a couple of hours after midday today to see if there was yet any sign of fly life. Was not too optimistic given the intermittent downstream wind and rain forecast for early afternoon. As over the last week or so, I saw no olives - they are clearly much later here on the middle river than further up and on the Usk. Happily though, the first of the March Browns eventually arrived instead. So, having had no joy initially with olive nymphs, I decided to change to a March Brown Duck's Dun variant and had a trout and four OOS grayling, the best of which was a nice 16" fish of just under 1.5lb. Most were non rising fish but clearly looking up and seeing something of interest. Water still cold at 6 degrees. It's a start but probably still needs to warm up a bit!

1 Trout, 4 Grayling

2lb Chub taken whilst salmon fishing using fly. River falling slightly though windy and overcast conditions made the day quite miserable. Clearest water this week.

1 Chub

River high. No salmon caught or seen. Fished for 8 hours.

Fly - No 10 GP on a 5ft fast sink tip. Blue rapala. River in good condition, clear, about 1-6.

Fished on the home patch today from about 10 until 2.30 p.m. Very sunny, and blessedly less windy for most of the time today than yesterday, and consequently enough Grannom, March Browns and a few LDOs to get fish interested. Had ten rising and non-rising fish on Grannom pupa emerger and March Brown Duck's Dun style patterns. Had a few grayling and trout yesterday as well on the same patterns in more adverse conditions. Nice to be out!

10 Trout

Fly: Yellow tube. 10 ft fast sink tip. River slightly coloured, about 2-6.

Evening session on this great fishery, park by your beat, few small trout and 1 shad on fly, no salmon.

4 Trout, 1 Other

5lb Hen Fish caught in Monks Run

1 Salmon

1 salmon 36 inches est 17-18lb very fresh. Spinner.

1 Salmon

Saw fish rising when crossing Bredwardine Bridge at lunchtime today, so decided to go and wet a line on the home patch in the rain in the afternoon, in anticipation of everything dirtying up tomorrow after the rain! In spite of the 7 degrees and pretty steady rain (but no stair rods), but being blessedly still, with little or no wind, yellow mays continued to come off during the afternoon and fish were rising to emergers and some to duns. All rising fish that were caught proved to be trout and all were caught on a yellow may emerger pattern (if interested, see Gwent Angling Society website for tying details). Also saw some mayfly - good news maybe for the prospect of their also now beginning to show on the brooks and streams that hold them in the WUF catchment.

6 Trout