Feedback & Reports

Penpont really delivered the goods today, despite the bright conditions and probably the warmest day of the year so far. Relatively little hatching, so nymphing was the order of the day. Five good trout 11", 15", 15", 16" and a cracking 18" (all returned). Drove back to Hampshire feeling happy after four glorious spring days in the Usk valley. The chalkstreams will have much to live up to when they open!

5 Trout

A very challenging days fishing, bright sunshine....
a nice hatch of March browns with a few LDO and brook duns thrown in. Biggest fish touching 15 inches. Mostly caught on dries.

12 Trout

Good LDO hatch for hour and the fish went nuts, got my fix.

7 Trout

Grey overcast day, no wind or rain, water level a good height, perfect! Really good march brown hatch from 11.00 for half an hour or so. Few LDO showing. Plenty of rises and 3 trout taken on small cdc dun, largest to 3lb. It's not only the fish that love march browns, the ducks love them too!

3 Trout

Low and very clear. V strong wind, downstream, rain. A few olives from 11-2, a few rises. Managed two nice fish from shallowish sheltered part near bank after seeing one move; one on a PTN, the other a klink.

2 Trout

Cold - fish perhaps in a hypothermic stupor or just stunned by my fumblings on first seasons expedition...either way did not trouble my net. Very brief meagre hatch of march browns when sun came out, couple of rises but was over no sooner i had tied on a dry. Couple of pulls on nymphs but got off. Lovely stretch of water ... good mix of water...will come back.

Blank

Lovely spring day, clear skies and sunshine with a blustery downstream wind. hatch of LDOs but nothing rose to them. One fish hooked and lost by Kris, but that was the only fish action of the day. Water low and clear and very varied on a long beat. A very beautiful stretch of the usk.

2 x trout 10 - 15 inches, Waterhen Bloa. Another rather cold day, certainly colder than the weatherman promised. Nothing at all until about 12.30 when a very sparse hatch of large dark olives began. I think I had counted only a dozen or so by 2.30pm when they stopped. One rising fish seen, in a place I couldn't reach. And just three takes all through the same period on spiders. Two resulted in fish. And the third came viciously out of the blue while I was wool-gathering, looking around and thinking what an attractive estate Penpont is...and broke the leader, I am afraid to say. It's been a while since I fished Penpont early season, which tends to leave me feeling I have earned the sort of comments which used to appear on school reports. You know - "could do better", "need to try harder" etc. I might have done better with nymphs, but it's somehow more attractive to try to follow the hatch. An interesting day and no doubt things will get easier as the water warms.

2 Trout

1 Trout