Feedback & Reports

Two small brown trout fell to olive hare's ear nymph on a fairly quick visit to the Honddu before returning home. A nice beat and AB's first ever wild brownie! I think the rigours of the last two day's fishing was taking it's toll half way up this beat as we both agreed at one point that " we were fishing like a pair of clowns ! "
All in all another enjoyable trip, and a definite convert in AB, another nutter added to the ranks folks !
Thanks as always to WUF.

2 Trout

Fished from 5.30pm. All fish caught on 10mm pellets with freebies catapulted in periodically. First barbel of the session lost and then action steadily through the evening. Best fish included ones of 9.2, 9.3, 9.9, 10.2.
One of our favourite beats. Nice to meet Rudy.

13 Barbel, 6 Chub, 1 Other

Bright with a cold wind. The water was gin clear, so long leaders were the order of the day. Had one nice fish early on swinging a small black spider. Picked up a couple of smaller fish through the day on small tungsten nymphs
As the light started to soften there as a small flurry of hatching insects that got the trout moving that produced 3 fish in about 20 minutes to a size 16 CDC & Elk.

6 Trout

Rather warm sunny day, used the swims approx 100 yards past the woodland walk. Gorgeous accessible swim, wonderful wildlife on display. Challenging swim, lively flow and much weed on bottom. Needed to be able to cast past halfway across river, not clear enough to target areas of clear gravel,therefore an element of luck in avoiding the weed. Used standard feeder tactics as trotting would not have been possible in this swim, used boilie hook baits. Challenging to discern the bites sometimes (as opposed to weed effects on the line)and lost some good fish in the weedy conditions but were able to land 6 barbel (to 9lbs). The most experienced and expert barbel angler in our party was able to cope with the conditions better than the rest of us and out-fished us. Thank you for a glorious day.

6 Barbel

3 Trout

3 x Barbel and 2 x Big Chub

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

Much enjoyed our day. A 6lb salmon was seen on the beat.

1 Trout

Great little beat. All caught on nymph. River crystal clear and fish in good condition. First Usk trout. Will be back.

3 Trout

a day in the Herefordshire countryside is special even if the fishing was a struggle

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Found the river a foot up and with a tinge of colour. Expected the bright conditions to make the fishing a bit trickier than normal. Excellent days sport, stunning surrounding. Couldn't really ask for more. Thank you WUF
Regards EPR

15 Barbel, 13 Chub