Feedback & Reports

An enjoyable days fishing inspite of the weather, it rained nearly all day or at least it felt like it. Actually had about 12 fish to hand the largest being about 1lb. Lost almost as many fish as came to hand dropping off barbless hooks, the largest of which was approx 2lb just as I was about to net it. Most of the fish came to a tunsten backed shrimp with others to a gold head pheasant tail nymph. Would fish Penpont again. All fish returned.
Stayed at the Old Store House near Brecon.

Guest had 1 x 10 inch brown released then catch and release at distance on a few others. Missed one monster - saw its flank and would put it well over 3lbs. Know where it lives now. River coloured and things got tough so left for another venue and picked up 6 small trout/parr on dries and a lot more catch and release at distance.

Fished from 09.00 - 18.00. The river level was high but falling and coloured.
20 fish caught mainly on nymphs with a size 16 quill nymph fished duo style catching most. Fish landed up to 1lb. Two big fish lost, both unseen (one, to my shame, was a snap).
A very good day on a lovely bit of water.

This would be our first visit to Penpont. The advice given, by staff at the Wye & Usk Foundation, was to fish with small'ish flies. Such advice proved spot-on, we fished a variety of Nymphs - mostly size 16 and 18, and caught a total of six hard-scrapping brown trout.
Best pattern was the humble 'Hares ear beadhead', although a nice 16 inch brownie fell to a self-fashioned 'Plongo-grub' - a simple twisted white wool abdomen / seal hair thorax pattern.

Most of the fish were taken downstream of the main bridge - three in particular being taken from a beautiful 40 metre glide. Plenty of white water throughout the beat so, unless you know the beat reasonably well, it really does pay dividends to study each section carefully rather than just walk on by. I spotted a few nice trout lurking in difficult-to-reach slacks; I also managed to spook each of these fish with my less-than-accurate casting technique, otherwise I may have caught a few more.

4 WBT to 30cm caught on PTN, para adams and GRHE. Camped by the bridge on the previous night and caught the first fish there shortly after stepping into my waders.

4 trout caught (largest about 30cm) and 3 lost. 2 on PTN Variant fished duo, 1 on parachute adams and 1 on x-caddis. Fishing blind with a dry in likeley spots produced plenty of rises. Thanks to Simon at WUF for suggesting I fish despite the river recovering from the wash-off of the previous day.

One fish of 8 oz caught on a size 18 olive Klinkhammer, no fish were taken. Wind gusts killed off a sporadic rise in the evening.

25 trout and a few salmon parr. Lovely beat but very little fly life or surface activity today. Lost a really good trout after a long fight which I estimated at 3lb plus.
Most fish taken on double nymph and French Leader & the duo although some taken on dry. All fish fighting wildies. Most fish took the point fly, a JT flashback nymph.

WUF service excellent and most helpful.

River very high and pretty unfishable with no real pools or features visible. Wading difficult due to flow. Some colour in the water. Caught one very small brown trout at the downstream end of the beat close to bank in a slower section. About 6 inches long. Seemed v healthy. Caught on Shuttlecock Buzzer. Heard a couple of fish leaping.

Penpont - high water, running off, 14 fish between the four of us, biggest BT at about 14", would have been good next day!!
Great time had by all, cant wait for the next time.