Feedback & Reports

The upper beat was visited and fished between 06:30 and 11:30, weather conditions were bright and sunny with a light breeze and the river was slightly low with a tinge of colour following the rain on Tuesday. Four fish up to 14 inches were landed, 1 x grayling and 3 x brown trout. All were taken nymphing through the faster and deeper runs. No fish were seen rising.

This beat is so beautiful and it was such a pleasure to be here that I returned to fish the same upper beat in the evening between 18:00 and 21:00. Weather and river conditions were the same although the evening temperature was slightly warmer. Fish were seen rising in the glides and so I fished a sedge on the surface with a suspended ptn New Zealand style.
The evening resulted in 1 x grayling and 2 x brown trout to 13 inches. Again, a wonderful few hours on this beautiful section of the river.

Thank you again to the Foundation for all you do.
Kind regards to your team.
Steve Rock

5 Trout, 2 Grayling

Olives hatching from mid day but only small stuff rising to them. A classic stretch of Usk fishing. Good access and well maintained stiles, bridges etc

2 Trout

Lovely stretch of river and adopted a roving style. Caught 3 nice chub to 5lb and a 4lb pike to a static pellet! All chub were also on pellet. Weed in middle of the river was a bit of a pain at times as it wasn't always visible but there's a lot of fishing in this stretch and I'm looking forward to coming back.

3 Chub, 1 Pike

Very hot and humid today, which set off this lovely stretch of river nicely. Access is good (although one slight grumble would be that the last third of the beat is not accessible at all) and the wildlife spectacular. Caught a single 7lb barbel on 14mm pellet and it gave a cracking fight.

1 Barbel

8 Barbel

Fish came from bottom meadow

4 Barbel, 3 Chub

9 Barbel

Lovely Day, water was very low in most places, and quite overgrown making it hard to cast where the deeper pools were, missed a few takes on the elk hair caddis but that was down to experience (my first wild brook) had a 7ft 6 rod and would have been better off with a 6ft but hey ho. There is barbed-wire in a number of places and care should be taken.

River low and slow
All fish caught were small apart from 1 chub on meat and pellet,ledgering
Other 2 eels

1 Barbel, 11 Chub, 2 Other