Feedback & Reports

Great conditions this week end. Fair weather and the water clear with a good flow which is holding well enticed a few rods out. Alastair Campbell hooked and lost a fish on the Island stream on beat 3. The fish straightened out the hooks on his shrimp fly. In the afternoon, Stuart Smith saved the day with a 12lb fish from the gravel bar on beat 4. Plenty of good trout taken and all returned.

1 Salmon

A difficult day chilly and overcast. Sporadic rises of March Browns which accounted for majority of fish on dries. Nymph fishing not very productive. The trout caught were all of a good size 1lb + fish the best being around the 2lb mark would have been heavier but showed signs of recent spawning. Quiet a few takes were missed. Fish were a little reluctant to take hard.
Pete Wesson

5 Trout, 2 Grayling

Blanked. A lot of sediment still in water from rain.

My two brothers had a interesting day one fishing downstream with wets whilst the other fished up with a nymph, lovely day!!

9 Trout

As usual the trout had a crazy twenty minutes around lunchtime but I could not get to grip with my fly choice. Most enjoyable day and thank you to the owner for rescuing me from the mud.

2 Trout

1 Trout

Really lovely stretch of river, however the banks have a lot of rubbish which is disappointing. Conditions were excellent and there are a lot of very nice pools and runs. Started at Quakers Yard station and worked my way upstream for about a mile. Landed one small trout on a Nymph and missed a few others. I am sure a more skilled angler than I would have caught a few more considering the conditions.
MTAA Note: We know that we have a problem with waste/rubbish. The association does various clean ups on parts of the river with Keep Wales Tidy and just normal members doing their bit. However, with the river Taff being an urban river it is pretty hard to keep up with it all. In time we hope to eradicate all rubbish.

1 Trout

had a few hours today on the Bideford brook overnight rain had risen the stream and added a slight amount of colour which made for perfect nymphing. fished 12-3pm nymphing the heads of the pools and brought 28 to hand and having several slip the hook also. all between 5-9",taking size 18 2mm black tungsten baetis nymph with a hint of orange at the thorax. Plenty of fly on the water LDOs, a few Grannom and midges but only two rising fish spotted which were both brought to hand on the nymph...

28 Trout

Nil. My first time on this beat and it was a beautiful spring day. Sunshine interspersed with fluffy clouds, about 12 degrees, soft southerly breeze. Should have been perfect. But, the river was pushing through stronger and higher than I had anticipated. I read that this beat has challenging wading at the best of times but today the river height made acces very hard, even in chest waders. There was a hatch of LDO but no rises seen. A beat for lower water I think. The gauge at Abergavenny was 1 foot 8 inches. 4 kayakers seen.

Lovely weather to be out but some overnight rain saw the river rising through the day. It started off clear but had risen considerably and coloured up by about 4pm. There was a small hatch of LDOs late morning which never really got going, but the most tremendous March Brown hatch which lasted the best part of an hour. The river was littered with MB duns but barely a fish rose to them. Very frustrating.The height of the river made it difficult to find somewhere to fish properly. I blanked but Andreas managed 2 trout, one to an LDO emerger and another to a spider pattern. One of the toughest days I can remember on the Usk, but as always, a pleasure to be out. 4 canoes spotted - at least they were polite. This is my second consecutive trip on a WUF beat where canoes / rafts have paddled through the beat and you can tell from their gear that these are serious paddlers and not some lads having a bit of jaunt. What's to be done?

2 Trout