Feedback & Reports

Booked a weekly ticket from Sunday the 13th.
Arrived Sunday and set up at castle knights campsite, walking distance from the town bridge. Walked the river but didn’t fish it.
Monday - blank, nothing happening.
Tuesday - blank but lost 3, one on Griffiths gnat, two on PTN
Wednesday - caught six, lost four, all on klink and dink, ptn. Two of them absolutely smashed the klink. Ranged in size from tiddlers to a lump of around 2.5 lbs. Also lost a good fish that I didn’t see because it stayed deep but it felt heavy.
Thursday - caught eight, lost three. 6 on ptn under klink again and two on dries around 4-6pm. One took a emerger olive, one a size 18 f fly. Fish were smaller than Wednesday on the whole, up to about 1lb but mostly around 8 inches.
It’s been a great week, hatches of MB and LDO but not in large numbers. Some small black things about too. Didn’t come across a large fish taking off the surface all week sadly but the smaller ones that are are very picky, and casting is very challenging in areas so all good fun. Recommend it!

14 Trout

Lots of fish about, mostly browns and some salmon.

1 trout 8oz on dry at church beat where there were a few fish rising to grannom (10 to 11ish).
1 trout 10oz from further up using Czech method with PT nymph (two fish lost).
Bright hot day, hardly any wind.

2 Trout

I was fishing the upstream end of the beat and found this to be hard going. Bank access was tricky. The wading felt treacherous with lots of slippery weed on flat racks rather than gravel. Despite that I had an enjoyable day and will return.

Arrived at 11am, big hatch if Grannom but only 1 fish rising, caught 2 trout in 5 mins during a MB hatch at 12.30.

Caught 1 more before river went completely quiet by 3pm.

Great beat, great river.

3 Trout

Low and clear water.
Few Mayfly coming off the water and a few rises around 2pm but mostly very quiet.
Caught 2 trout on the Euro rod and lost a 3rd at the net.
Water temp 10 degrees.
River looking beautiful

2 Trout

Not a sniff on nymphs for the first hour , within the next hour 6 to cdc march brown dun . In This hour was two very short and explosive hatches . The first lasted about ten minutes the second about 5 minutes . Then again the river fell dormant . I worked up a nice stretch nymphing for about half an hour but not a touch . Largest fish around 16 inches , the other five all roughly 14 inches

6 Trout

First time fishing this beat.

Arrived 0930 parked at lower end and fish were rising! I think to remnants of yesterdays hatch. I tried various patterns of match brown/ldo imitations but very fussy and died off soon. 2 further periods of surface activity to MB hatches lasting ~15 mins between 11 and 1. I had one fish above the road bridge that broke me off. After this very sporadic single rises but nothing much. Couldn’t tempt any on dries. Left at 3pm.

As expected lots of dog walkers throwing in sticks and kids throwing rocks etc.

First visit to The Usk and managed to rise 5 and land 3 brownies . All on dries

3 Trout

5 caught to nymphs in a 1hour period between 11a.m and twelve noon , with 4 being lost near the net . There was a very brief hatch of march browns which rose several fish but by the time I'd got second rod off backpack it ended and the river died instantly . I went back to nymphing for an hour but not a touch . Nice stretch of water the few hundred metres I fished

5 Trout