Feedback & Reports

A lovely day but no fish seen or caught. The lower half of the beat had more promise but overhanging vegetation and inexperience with small streams rather got the better of us. Previous catch reports show plenty of fish so technique may well be the issue. Green spider and PTN had no success.

Beautiful stretch of water - very technical wading and quite tricky to fish - stealth being everything! Fish rising to dry flies and also taken on wets/spiders.

8 Trout

I couldn't fish in the morning so hit the water at about 7pm as the sun was starting to go down. A few shad seen just below the salmon. River gin clear and at a good height. Sadly no fish by 9:30pm at which point I had to leave. A beautiful evening on the river though!

Enjoyable day on a lovely stretch. Fished it last week in higher water with a little colour, which produced more fish. Harder this week in lower gin clear water. Had 5 trout to 1lb all on nymphs. Yet to see a repeat rise from a fish, even with a steady hatch of Sedges and various uprights. The wading is a nightmare but I'll be back for more.

5 Trout

I have only fished the upper section of this beat - there are a couple of nice pools from which I had half a dozen fish. There are however long slow stretches that are unlikely to produce fish - and which seem very sensitive to lack of rainfall. Interestingly, I didn't see a fish rise all day and the abundent mayfly hatch of a couple of weeks ago was no more. All fish therefore taken on nymphs and my newly purchased mayfly patterns kept dry for next year.

6 Trout

First time on this beat a nice part of the river in beautiful surroundings, sunny and warm. Fish caught on gold head grgh and chech nymphs. Trout generally small with largest one at a pound. Fish of the day was a surprise chub at 2.5 lbs.

15 Trout, 1 Grayling, 1 Chub

Oh dear, what a disappointment after the last 3 days on Wye and Usk. Dirty brown water, overgrown banks; it felt more like a Louisiana bayou. I kept a good lookout for alligators in the swampy sections. There should be machete's supplied. The so called access points were hidden in the jungle and when I finally found one it was derelict. Not that it mattered because once in the water there was nothing to see. We left at lunchtime after a couple of small fish on the nymph.

2 Trout

Very good day, fish rising to the mayfly 5 brown not very big but my first river brownies and on the mayfly. Well pleased.

5 Trout

2 rainbow caught, worm and bubble. Both around pound and half each. Supper at last!

2 Trout

My first outing on this fabulous beat in the most stunning of settings. A local rod gave invaluable help and guidance but to no avail.
Not a beat for the faint hearted or the novice. The wading was challenging - I fell in twice which is a personal best. Saw plenty of fish and had a couple of pulls - a great day but no salmon caught.

1 Trout