Feedback & Reports

Having fished most of this beat yesterday my expectations for today were modest but the river had other ideas. Despite the warmth of the day not many bugs were coming off, so I l searched the deeper runs and chutes with nymphs, not as pretty as dries but effective nonetheless. I caught steadily all the way up river, about twenty fish in all, maybe more, I wasn’t counting. One fish from an easily walked-past little chute produced the week’s highlight, a flawless trout of 1lb 6oz I first took in the amber water for a big chub or stray barbel. Any fish after that were pure bonus. A great day to cap a great week.

20 Trout

4 Chub

2 Trout

A very challenging day in what looked like perfect conditions chub were welcome but some a little on the small side.

8 Chub

A tough day at the office after a lot of the overhanging trees had recently been removed, but we managed to find a couple later on in the day.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

1 eel!

1 Other

2 Trout

Dry flies and bugging

8 Trout, 6 Grayling

None

Looked at the Ithon River level, last night ......sitting nicely at 0.112m .... Great i thought, means her tributary, the Clywedog should be perfect, and she was when I parked at the bridge at bang on ten to midday!!!
Had a can of coke and my lunch, before starting and watched wasps come and go out of plastic tubing, that's near the parking area, well actually behind it if I'm bring honest!!! Fascinating things to watch, i could just see the small nest, just a bit bigger than a tennis ball ...... that'll soon be treble that by September..... Great to watch them go about their business....
The fishing today was cracking.... dry fly all the way as always, with my summer small stream fishing.... superb fun !!!! Lots to the net, and a good few slipping off to be fair !! Eighteen made it to the net, some nice chunky twelve inch fish, but the average about seven or eight inches I'd say ...lovely takes to my dry , just never tire of it !!! A slow mooch upstream.... superb stuff....
Got out by the weir at the top at four bells ....The River is running at perfect dry fly height, clear but certainly not deep !!! Fish small dries, cast accurately, and wade slowly is my motto here and in fact on most if not all the wild streams if you want success.....
The cows are a bit feisty in the field , but hey ho !! And tarka had been on the rampage I'd say in the lower part of the beat today .... pools that last week had two or three fish in them .... He's a real explorer, seen his prints at the Bridge and right up the top... Doesn't seem to dampen the quality of fishing. OK, fish aren't huge, but there are some nice surprises here .... five of mine today were over ten inches .... so that's good for a little trib. Right, another adventure tommoz ....maybe one of the Usk tribs, they always seem a little left out !!!... Home time and a bottle of Rev. James !!! Oofffffffffff .......

18 Trout