Feedback & Reports

Beautiful day on a beat I hadn’t visited before. 1 lovely wbt on deep peeping caddis. Quite a bit of fly life coming off (LDO and some March Brown, I think) and a rise around lunch time but I couldn’t fool any of them. Thanks to WUF. I will return.

1 Trout

3 x trout 12-15 inches, Waterhen Bloa and Dark Moorgame spiders. A tough midday session with a cold downstream wind - it actually felt much colder than the 7 degree air temperature recorded. The river was also very cold and doesn't seem to be dropping much - I guess that snow-melt is feeding it steadily. A fair old trickle of large dark olives between 12 and 2 but, for the most part, the trout were not rising for the duns on the surface. I suppose it is still too cold and we must be patient for a few days more. However, today's catch would have been just one trout if was not for WUF supporter John Lewis, who mentioned during one of those long bank-side chats that he had noticed a couple of fish show on the far side of the river. Anyway, John feeling rather chilled went off for his lunch and I tried the spot with spiders for a pleasing result. Many thanks!

3 Trout

4 Fish 12 - 15 inch. Fished for just half an hour at lunch time but hit it right despite a howling, cold downstream wind. Fish were active whenever wind dropped. Mixture of LDO and a few March browns on the water. The previous day I had 1, of 14 inches.

4 Trout

3 x trout 12-16 inches, Waterhen Bloa, Dark Moorgame, Woodcock and Hare's Lug. Still quite chilly with some snow left lying about (but best if it doesn't melt too fast to avoid the river flooding). Water still high spring level at 1ft 4 inches, running clear.
An extended hatch of large dark olives went on for a couple of hours, but no duns seen being taken on the surface - the dry fly rod seemed to be redundant. However, presumably the emerging nymphs were of some interest, because there were a series of halfhearted takes on spiders, most of which I failed to tighten into. Of the three which did stick, one was a nice fish.

3 Trout

4 x trout 10-15 inches, Woodcock and Hare's Lug, Dark Moorgame. River very high this morning with gauge at 1ft 5 inches, although reasonably clear. Also an upstream gale growing steadily in strength. I could sum up today as darned difficult, but as I was passing through on the way to Swansea I stopped off in Brecon and gave it a try. There was a brief hatch of large dark olives about 1 o'clock.

4 Trout

Small grilse about 4lb after work this evening on a polar Usk grub

1 Salmon

3 on dry

3 Trout

Marginal fishing on high and rather coloured water. 3 x trout 7-13 inches on spiders.

3 Trout

Lovely day no fish. Best bit is top half of beat

Nothing doing... loads of fish seen rising, jumping, and chuckling at my fly. Nice spot with good wading access