Feedback & Reports

This is a bit early in the season for me but having seen some good reports from the Usk in the past couple of days on social media, I decided to give it a go.
There were a few LDOs coming off when I started but not much fish activity. At midday they hatched in numbers, along with March browns and the river came alive with trout taking the flies off the top aggressively. After 30 minutes, the river went quiet again. In that time I'd caught 4 on dry fly and lost quite a few more, with the best 2 fish at 1.75lb
A fantastic 3 hours on the Usk, made even better by the company of an otter.

4 Trout

A lovely day. The river in nice condition for piking. Only had 1 bite but it was a very good fish, a massive pb and my first 20! I guess she weighed somewhere in the region of mid-20's. Sadly I had forgotten my scales so will never know how big she was but she was roughly the same length as my unhooking matt which is 110cm long!

1 Pike

Had a couple of hours out on the Rectory stretch. River has dropped a good 6 inches from yesterday so it was looking good. Fished the main Rectory pool saw nothing touched nothing, then went up to the mill pool, half way down bang into a fish of about 10lbs had it on for two minutes thrashing on the top when the spinner came loose . Never mind where there is there is more

All fish caught on feeder. The river level was normal winter level and I would have expected more fish.

Just one of those slow days.

1 Trout, 1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Really hard day. Fished mainly the upstream fast water with pellet and meat. 2 bites between all 3 resulting in one large chub 5lb 12oz.
Bonus was the weather.

1 Chub

1 Trout

1 Chub

This is a lovely beat with plenty of good water. No fish on this occasion.

All caught on bunch of maggot.

3 Chub

River looked good ! Good beat but picked wrong swim!slow for bites,very windy missed all of very few bites!! Just great to be on the wye though