Feedback & Reports

Arrived around 9:00am and spotted rising fish towards the bottom of the beat in the slacker water. Put on an olive emerger and caught a brownie of around 11" in the shallows. Continued with no more luck. Fish continued to fish sporadically throughout the day - no major fly hatch. Tried other dries and nymphs - no luck. Pretty spot. Low water levels.

1 Trout

My first day out, enjoyed being on the river and amongst the great birdlife.

I'm new to this so no experience (might book a lesson), but as you would expect, very low water, not much activity and no fish caught.

Incredible hatch this afternoon / evening of olive uprights, iron blues, mayflies, midge and a few BWOs. Likely caused by the change in weather and drop in pressure on the day. Fish rising in almost every pool. Landed a good number, but sadly nothing over 2lb.

10 Trout

Hot and sunny with a fresh upstream breeze. Beautiful location but probably not the best conditions. 2 fish best 1lb caught another lost. GRHE successful fly. Access to the beat via 2 gates.

1 Trout, 1 Chub

Still low and clear, warm & bright day. Arrived at 12, with rise in full swing (should have arrived earlier), to emergers I'd say. 4 fish, 13 to 16 inches, on PTN and dun (14) later. Not much hatch, or rise, after 1pm. 1 salmon smolt (5 inches, silvered). 4 ospreys

4 Trout

Great beat. Lovely day with plenty of fly life.

8 Trout

Low water on a hot sunny day made for tough fishing. In one pool there was a pod of fish rising to tiny midges. We rose and missed 3 of them and managed one solitary 1lb trout on an F-fly during a brief grannom hatch. There was a smattering of March Browns here and there but nothing touched them.

1 Trout

Bright 16mph winds, few fish rising. JD had a 12" fish and a long distance release. 1 long distance release for me. Couple of missed hook ups between us.

1 Trout

Blazing sunshine, warmer (got up to 17 degrees) but a persistent downstream wind. The river is very low and gin clear. I tried a couple of spiders with a small orange-collared gold head PTN on the point. But unlike yesterday ( maybe due the helpful cloud cover then?) it was hard work. A very quick hatch of LDOs was over almost as soon as it started and despite quickly changing to my dry rod, I only raised one fish (which didn’t stick) and then they stopped. But 40 mins later a better hatch started which lasted about half an hour or so. It’s wonderful when on a sunny spring day you are knee deep in a run and fish are rising all around you, one even under my rod. I covered them again and again but they just chose the natural six inches to the side… I tried the spiders again and caught a feisty half pounder on the PTN. Thinking the hatch over I was contemplating my pork pie when I realised it was actually still going. And in some surprisingly skinny and bobbly water, I took a much better fish of about 1.5 lb on an upstream LDO dry. Magic! The sand martins were very busy on the mud banks and (famous last words) it feels like we have seen the back of winter. Spring trouting on the Usk. Not much better than that. Thank you WUF!

2 Trout

River low and clear was not helped by a cloudless sky. Brief MB hatch and rise around 10.30 and then nothing else for rest of the day. Did manage a nice fish on an emerger.

1 Trout