Feedback & Reports

Weather was great and what a lovely location. Unfortunately my ability to catch fish was not so great. On my last visit (last year) I had a successful day, catching some good fish, but not so this time. Upon arrival there were plenty of fish rising just upstream of the bridge and this carried-on for a couple of hours. So, I set about presenting a wide variety of dry flies with absolutely no interest from the fish at all. This has happened to me before elsewhere (thankfully not very often) and I can't quite work out why: maybe they are taking just below the surface such that it appears as a surface take? (Anyone got a view?) I tried fishing sub-surface to no avail (I am not very good at this). Anyway, I ventured downstream into the pool immediately below the bridge and managed to get the interest of what must have been quite a substantial fish as it snatched at my Grey Wulff snapping the tippet in the process. So, had a lovely day but caught nothing and feel a little embarrassed as a consequence on what appeared to be a perfect day for fishing. I will be back though!
WUF Note: AK from Blakeney contacted us to say that his wife lost her watch somewhere near the Penpont bridge. If anyone finds it we would be grateful if they could contact us on 01874 712 074 so that we can arrange for its return.

Fly - bright - river falling

1 Trout

A lovely first day out for the 2016 season, river looked good at 1' 5" but sorry to report no sign of a salmon. Good hatch of olives at lunch time and trout rising all over the tail of the Rectory pool for about an hour. Will be back soon.

River in perfect condition, lovely weather but no catch. Definitely I will try again!

Occasional MB hatch, along with LDOs. Odd fish rising

First time for me on this beat. 8 WBT split between top and bottom ends of the water. All on March Browns. Hatches were sparse and sporadic.
Lovely stretch of the Usk. Very fishy with very varied water types.

8 Trout

River slightly high but clearing well, booked Mick for the morning and as ever I strongly recommend him to anyone new to the beat or indeed salmon fishing.Unfortunately my salmon fly rod snapped due to poor technique combined with a sink tip and heavy tube fly and both of us used spinning for the rest of the day using flying c's and Micks set-up on devon minnows. I think we deserved a fish but that's salmon fishing! Will be back to this well maintained beat. Thanks Mick.

Fabulous conditions to be on the water this Sunday morning Great result from beat 5 Loxters right hand bank with a superb fish for Mr Sprinter and a good fish lost by Stuart Smith from beat 3 in the afternoon. The beat had been fished through quite well by Tim Kelly and Jim Cummings in the morning but the fish succumbed to the fly after the well deserved perseverance. Fish seen on beat 1 but no offers.

1 Salmon

Only arrived at Caradoc at 1 o'clock by 4 had a 13lbs springer, a little colour probably been in the river for a week, did see fish running, they seem to be going straight up to higher reaches with good water levels, this is my 5th springer of the Wye in 3 weeks, happy? oh yes!

1 Salmon

1'4", clear-- No joy

2 Trout