Feedback & Reports

Second day of introducing two mates to the joy of river fly fishing. Got off to a good start the day before at Abernant. Much harder today. River low and clear with plenty of fly life. Yesterday was downstream nymphing, today upstream nymphing and dry. Different gravy!! In spite of a few takes, dry net for the newbies. Highlight of the day I caught a porker of a wbt, around the 3lb mark, certainly amongst my top 3 in the 15 years I've been fishing the Usk. Caught on an emerger, returned safely. Another decent fish taken off the top with an F-fly. Brilliant but tough going for the beginners.

2 Trout

I had a difficult day trying to tempt trout to a variety of dry flys all to no avail

Lovely day on a beautiful beat. Lots of fish seen including a few real specimens. Lots of fish rising all day but very hard to tempt with water clear and shallow - very spooky!
Had 5 lovely fish before lunch and then the afternoon we were defeated by the fish! Missed two fish on dries - one fish would have probably gone close to 3lbs. The one that got away.
All fish caught on dries in fast water.
Lovely beat - will return again - perhaps when the water is higher.
Lunch as ever was fabulous!

5 Trout

Thank you for advice on the telephone pointing me and my friend to available fishing at late notice.
Fish were rising throughout the beat and three were caught early to mid-afternoon, the best being about a pound and a quarter. All were taken on dry fly.

3 Trout

It was dry fly fishing day. All fish were returned back into the water in very good condition.

9 Trout

Caught on snipe and purple. River lower, little sign of any hatch

1 Trout

All caught on spiders - Waterhen Bloa, Snipe and Purple. River fairly low

3 Trout

7 Trout

First the good - the fishing was very good - 6 of the fish being between 2 and 2.5 lbs. Hatches of olives at both ends of day - midge feeders during the day in certain spots. We fished only dries. Also noted a lot of fry paradoxically perhaps given the comments below.

The bad - pollution. From the main pool below the bridge to way down the beat the rocks were covered in algae. In the pool below the bridge the rocks were caked with a green/black algae that broke off in large chunks and we would see pieces floating further down. Other areas were coated in brown algae. The worst algae I have seen on the Usk and we were not sure of the source - Penpont itself ? Sennybridge sewage ? farm effluent ? Also makes wading a bit tricky as slippery stones.

16 Trout

7 takes between us bit none to the net- must go fishing more! Good weather until after 4 when the heavens opened. Lot of insect life including some Mayfly. Fish started rising about 2.00. Things are warming up!