Feedback & Reports

Fantastic looking beat, gusty downstream wind sometimes made casting difficult but managed to catch seven trout up to 15 ins using dry fly and nymph, biggest on a dry fly, missed or lost just as many. Glad I had a wading stick.

7 Trout

Bright sunshine, crystal clear water, a fair bit of wind (to which this beat is prone) and quite a few walkers and paddlers making a bit of a splash - so not the easiest of days. Rise occurred between about 11am and 2pm. Ended up fishing deeper with small PTN on very light line and caught two good browns and lost two others - one a fish of a lifetime which has been replaying in my mind ever since!

2 Trout

A beautiful day to be on the river. Little wind and sporadic rises all day and some consistently feeding fish to target. 6 trout to 14 inches to a variety of methods with the largest to a parachute Adams. Would have been interesting to fish into the early evening but bushed by 4pm having started at 10.

6 Trout

Great day fishing with Dave Marsh on this fantastic beat. Lots of different types of water to fish but all 9 fish were taken on the dry fly; March Brown imitations. We did have an unusual interval when some swimmers came and bathed in the pool that Dave was fishing! Fished from 10:00 to 15:30 when the hatches had come to an end and the fish had stopped rising.
Highly recommended beat.

9 Trout

Very enjoyable day spent fishing in a truly beautiful location. Weather cloudy with occasional heavy showers, but long spells of sunshine. Mayfly nymphs in the water and a few mayflies in the air! Fish occasionally slashing at adult mayfly imitation skittered on surface but more consistently interested in Walker's mayfly nymph cast upstream. Fine trout of 1lb in the net eventually, on the nymph - plenty of action but first time on a river in a few years and kept missing takes and losing fish!

1 Trout

A cold start (8 degrees at 10am) and a strong breeze meant a slow and tricky beginning with just one WBT in the morning, on a gold head PTN fished below a Klinkhammer. Things livened up in the afternoon with 3 good fish on the dry (Para Adams) following a big hatch of Large Brook Duns at 2.30 ish making things very lively for half an hour. All in all despite the chilliness, low water (rain please!) and the breeze an excellent day.

4 Trout

Two of us fished Glan-yr-Afon from about 12.45 to 18.00. Great to be back on this stunning stretch of the Usk, despite a very challenging breeze all afternoon and the odd hail shower! Connected with but lost three decent fish, all on dries - as per previous reports, the most effective flies were March Brown and Large Dark Olive. The one fish actually caught fell to the old faithful Partridge and Orange, fished through the tail of a riffle on the near side midway along the beat. Only had thigh waders and therefore couldn't reach some of the water on the far side that looked tempting. Fingers crossed for less wind next time!

1 Trout

Lovely stretch of river. Water low but plenty enough for the purpose. Downstream wind so mostly wet fly. Black Pennell took the majority. All small - in fact, suspiciously similar in size. Wondered whether it may have been the same fish five more times. Anyway, he's hopefully going to get older and wiser and much, much bigger.

6 Trout

Nil

After fishing this beat on the Thursday before and catching 14 trout to 14" I wanted to have another go for some of the larger fish I had spotted. With a bright sunny sky and lower water I knew It was not going to be easy. By getting into position late morning near the head of one of the larger pools I kept still and let the fish start feeding on the steady trickle of LDO's and March Browns. A para Adams and a black tung bead PTN fished duo took some good fish, the best being a very fat 17" with a couple of solid fish lost. Later on I used long leader nymphs to have some good sport taking fish from the faster runs along the far bank. With such fine weather a quick swim finished the day off perfectly. All fish returned.

8 Trout