Feedback & Reports

Sunny first thing, but went very cold with cloud and North wind. Water temp only 7C. Nothing rising.

10 trout on nymphs. Nothing rising unfortunately

10 Trout

Glorious evening fishing, with a spectacular.evening rise. There is a long pool with a shelf down the centre at the bottom of the beat, which proved very productive for the evening rise. It holds an incredible head of big fish. I spent the evening guiding for my friend, who had not picked up a rod for 10 years and despite this he had 8 fish in 4 hours.

No heavy hatches but a plethora of different emphemerotera. Were fishing Klinks in the faster water and reverting to size 16 little upwinged, cinnamon or cinnamon and cream patterns for the stiller water. Fish were a bit edgy and a minimum leader length of 16ft seemed necessary for the still water. We were veering towards 2lb test tippet and I would have gone lighter if my friend was striking with a bit more finesse.

A truly evening.

8 Trout

Quite a tough evening on the Usk. The trout started rising at about 8.30 but to what I couldn't work out. I threw everything in my box at consistent risers for over an hour, but all were refused.
Earlier in the evening I had 5 small trout on nymph and klinkhammer in the faster sections and lost a couple of other decent fish.

5 Trout

Bright sunshine and low water, so a challenging day. All fish taken on nymphs - nothing could be tempted with dries - and all safely returned.

8 Trout

Sun and some overcast. Much warmer than previous day but chilly upstream breeze still evident. Much less fly life . A few olives, false March brown and masses of black gnat. Found small pockets of fish at the tail end of the salmon pools. Very selective feeders which refused most of my patterns but were not spooked. At the end of a frustrating day I managed to hook up to two very large fish taken on a deer hair emerger. One came unstuck and the other decided to head over the weir and I was broken. Little to show for a great deal of effort.

This is an attractive, varied stretch with the bedrock cascades at Millbrook the highlight but on a bright day in a muted spring for angling it was going to be hard work. I was glad I came back in the still, warm evening when there was slightly more response and wished I had discovered the top stretch between the bridges rather earlier, but for the second year this was 'another quiet day on the river'. Getting through the thickets to access the bottom stretches will deter some anglers.

4 Trout

Enjoyable stretch of water. Cold wind all day. Few fish rising, x1 brown trout 8 oz on nymph returned.

1 Trout

Lovely spot to fish, water was clear and varied (pools,flats etc).

6 Trout, 2 Grayling