Feedback & Reports

Fished with my brother today, caught six the biggest 19" and he had a few more including another beauty of 16"(report to folllow). We were bit worried about the weather on arrival as there had been a fair dump of rain overnight. On arrival the river was up about a foot and rather colured, visibility about three feet. Few insects and nothing rising but we did pick up the occasional fish on nymphs. Later on the water cleared a bit and some caddis, and a few olives got going - the odd rise then and we got a couple on Klinhamers but most were on nymph today. The 19"er gave a good scrap in the strong flow, I was worried she would power off downstream but thankfully managed to guide her into a slightly slower eddy. Beautiful fish, and rather different in appearance to many other Usk browns - olive with few, faint spots, although still with that wonderful gold colour around the head and underbelly and in lovely condition. All fish returned as usual. Thanks for a lovely day out!

6 Trout

Everything seemed in place for a great days fishing , river levels up , nice chocolate colour, slightly overcast and the temperature perfectly mild . We were feeling more than confident. Our confidence gradually turned into frustration as we realised it was going to be a tough day , waiting and waiting with no signs of any activity,
We were prepared to write the day off , what a contrast from my last visit only a month ago , when the conditions were a complete opposite.
But as the evening came to a close the fish took pity on us and our rods came alive with some last minute action which lifted our spirits.
A very testing day but a blank avoided.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Enjoyable early morning start paid off with 2 nice barbel over 5lb in the rain, water rose 2’ and made for challenging conditions

2 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

Perch

1 Other

Salmon Parr caught in the island swim, 3 small brown trout caught either side of the bridge. River was higher than normal and quite coloured following heavy rainfall. Water quality was poor and smelt quite unpleasant, insect life in the river appeared low with very few fish rising at all even well into the evening.

No fish taken.

3 Trout, 1 Other

Flooded

4 trout returned; all to dawl bach

4 Trout

2 killed

2 Trout

The beat fished quite hard through the day- but two trout caught in the end, with the best at 16" on a sedge, late afternoon. A hard on light tackle- glad I was fishing strong, 6lb tippet.

I also missed some others on dries and had a smaller fish using a small Woolly Bugger streamer. There are some fine fish here, but the feeding spells can be short.

2 Trout