Feedback & Reports

Arrived at the beat at 1pm and met by the owner who was very helpful. Managed 8 fish to a dry para Adams before the river rose and coloured up at 4.30pm and cut short my day. I was looking forward to the evening rise. Never mind, that's fishing for you!

8 Trout

Barbel in excellent condition weights of 5,to just short of 9 with most in the 7 to 8lb bracket biggest at exactly 10lb also lost 2 in snags

10 Barbel, 2 Chub

Windy initially but calmed later and sunny. A nice day. Fished The V don through to Vanstone, no bites no fish but after lunch a couple showed. For those that use it the what3words for the picnic bench at the parking is
///ballparks.testy.cherished Took me right there.

1 Trout

Slow morning roving the middle / top section in strong winds and drizzle with only a couple of chub. Mid day trotting with meat also difficult due to the wind with just a couple more chub for my efforts. Settled in one swim for the evening and put a good bed of hemp and pellet out with the bait dropper and it was an action packed three hours with 6 wonderful barbel up to 9lbs and a couple of bonus chub.

6 Barbel, 9 Chub

Both on dry fly. One very small but the other OK for such a small stream.

2 Trout

X5 perch

2 Trout, 5 Other

Fly fishing the Usk Res, what a waste of time and money. Anywhere you might get room for your back cast there will be some Eastern European gentlemen sat at the water’s edge with 3 rods a piece, power baiting (all set up with Carp alarms) plus the little bit of room that’s left, what is not overgrown and where there is enough space for a back cast, they will be walking around with their 4th rod spinning. The only time they won’t be spinning will be when they are walking back to the boot of their cars to put fish out of sight into freezer boxes.
Thought we would stay for the evening rise 19.30 onwards as the power baiters had left and just when you thought the fishing up the Usk Res, couldn’t be abused any more than you have already seen, cars pulled up, men get out, pull their telescopic rods out which are already set up and start spinning all around you. Place is a joke, roads are terrible, Res is unkept, Welsh Water turn up between 9am and 10.30 to check you have paid your money, anyone up to no good is either not there at that time or just stop abusing the fishing as they see the Welsh water vehicle arriving. The place is pouched and power baited to the extreme.

3 Other

4 Barbel, 18 Chub

float meat and pellets

1 Barbel, 4 Chub