Feedback & Reports

A fine day with sunny spells and cooler than the previous few days. Very few flies coming off and although we tried every method we could not entice any fish to take our flies.

Bright and sunny day - hot, in early April. No rising fish seen and little in the way of surface fly, but a nymph fished deep worked, with a couple of fish of 12 to 14 inches. River level low and clear.

2 Trout

Very difficult day. Conditions were ok but the fish were just not interested!

4 Trout

Windy day for fishing, mixtures of sun and rain, river risen after days of raning. Not much surface activity , managed to hold one trout - pound,no more. Fished only few hours, but I will come back for another day.

1 Trout

Bright breezy day that made the fishing today pretty difficult. Water was in perfect condition. Only a couple of 12/13" fish today one on a nymph and the other to an Usk naylor wet fly, the only fish I saw rising all day. Sporadic hatch around lunch time, but the easterly wind and bright sun kept the fish down.

2 Trout

River falling slowly after flood the day before, cold wind, sunny in afternoon. Caught and returned two on dries during very short hatch at around 2pm, one on a nymph deep earlier in day.

3 Trout

More of a walk with a rod than a fishing session as the river was pretty high and fishable in only a couple of places, although dropping failry quickly. Plenty of LDOs caught in foam but nothing rising. There is a very tricky gate on the left bank as you go from fields to coniferous wood. The combination of unstable, tilted date and barbed wire meant I wimped out at that point. Couldn't open the gate or safely (for waders) climb over. Otherwise a very pretty beat with some very good habitat.

Full sun. Fished 4 hours to sunset. Saw no fish. No hatches.

First outing of the season and what a great day it was. Started about 9am, temp was at 10c and rising, light wind and overcast. Water at a good height and running clear. Started off with upstream nymphs, cased caddis on point and small ptn on dropper and within the first hour I had taken three lovely 12 to 14" feisty fish. A few missed and dropped fish over the next hr or so before a trickle hatch of LDO started to come off. As I was deciding on my next approach, "Bang!" rod doubles over and reel starts to scream as a fish ran hard upstream. As it leaped out the water I could see it was around the 4lb mark. 10 to 15 mins later I finally got it to net and what a lump it was measuring approx 23,24" and in perfect condition. After a short break and to catch my breath I changed over to dry olive pattern and took another 3 lovely fish. As the hatch finished about 1pm I decided to call it a day on a high. Picture of fish sent to Facebook page.

7 Trout

River high and very coloured - looked like Bisto. Practiced some various nymphing techniques but gave up after a while.
Not much hope of catching anything at all. Shame, my last trout outing of the year was a disappointment.