Feedback & Reports

Excellent beat with good wading and trout rising to abundant fly hatches. Should have had many more fish but the group of anglers was inexperienced. The fish were returned and neither caught or lost anything over half a pound.

2 Trout

Following yesterday's marathon, managed a couple of hours only in the morning to no great effect other than to enjoy the Usk valley.

1 Trout

Day 2 of 4 on our trip. Brother in Law fished Escley brook in next valley over in England whilst I gave two Welsh Honddu back-to-back beats a go. Lower Henllan and Maes y Beran were fished and I caught nothing until 2.30pm and then the temperature came up a degree and the fish came up. 17 fish caught on various dry. Three or four were a decent 14". Very sporadic hatch. I parked at Maes y Beran and was directed to much better nearby parking by the lady of the farm who stopped for a chat. Bizarrely I met her again at the end of the day and she was very happy to hear of my haul. NB: There is camping sites riverside on both beats and I would imagine it gets very busy in the summer months.

17 Trout

See feedback for Lower Henllan.

Interested to see how one of my favourite beats has been reconfigured. Beat 4 now comprises half of the old lower beat and half of the old middle beat. Parked in the pull in next to the old mill which is situated in the middle of the beat. Then walked down to the lower limit and fished up, past my car and on to the upper limit. It actually makes a good beat with plenty of decent pools and a full day's fishing. Not as prolific as previous visits, just 3 chubby wbt of around 10". My fishing didn't do the new layout justice. We all have "those" days I guess!!

3 Trout

Tagged on this beat after fishing the new Escley 4 (which was good). Formally part of the upper Escley beat this is now a very short beat with lots of restricted areas. It's very disappointing. You can't fish half the water and there's very little to go at in the remaining 600 or so yards. You'd be very disappointed if you drove 190 miles for this! Managed 2 wbt but wouldn't return.

2 Trout

All on the dry best just under 2lb and returned safely. A nice spot to spend the afternoon.

8 Trout

The river was on the low side, but I managed a few fish to spider patterns. There were few fish rising despite sporadic hatches.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

Had a lovely day on this beautiful beat , I had just driven up from London and had arrived in paradise , the level was good , nice warm day , lots of fly around, counted at least 5 different species , there was lots of hawthorn flies too , there were sporadic rises all day.
I fished dry right through the day using midge patterns , plume tips and even small mayfly patterns (Danica) .
There was a nagging down stream wind which hampered presentation but this was my first real dry fly fishing this season so I persisted. Probably would have connected with more fish on nymph in streamier water. Ended up with 5 good fish lost around the same number .
Lovely day .

5 Trout

Nil dabloon this time, never mind the fish gotta win some days lol just good to be out relaxing in a great place where you can just switch off and as Mr Schwarzenegger said I'll be back