Feedback & Reports

I caught two brown trout which I returned safely. They where caught using a dry fly and a floating line.
I would like to bring to your attention there was an issue with litter at the lake.

2 Trout

Very limited fly water, hot and bright day no salmon seen all day.

3 Trout, 1 Chub

Steve Grimwood, Llysdinam -10lb to a #8 silver doctor.

1 Salmon

Two today, 8 and 9lbs cocks, both on fly - Bann Shrimp. Smaller fish starting to colour up, other bright.

2 Salmon, 2 Trout

Fresh Hen about 7or8lbs. No sea lice. Had a healed bite mark just behind its anal fin on one side only. Thank God seals have bad dental hygiene! It came out of the Bridge Stream on an old Usk Grub.

1 Salmon

If I'm going to blank (which I did), there's no prettier stretch of river to do it on that this! Will be back.

Managed to find a few sheltered areas out of the wind including an expedition into the jungle at the top of the beat. Tight up there for casting but floated a large pheasant tail nymph down a glide to pickup a chubby and hard fighting 10 inch WBT. Picked up 3 others and a grayling on a mixture of nymph and mayfly.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling

Excellent fishing, plenty of fish @ the pound mark with the odd one or two pushing 1.5lb. Great mayfly hatch but only sporadic rising, possibly the cold wind put the fish down? Most fish caught on weighted nymphs.

8 Trout, 16 Grayling

For those interested in fishing a mayfly hatch - it has started at Hergest Court. The flies hatched on and off all afternoon. At anytime there were a handful of flies struggling on the surface of the water and unlike the previous report this time the fish were taking nothing else. Whilst I sat and had my lunch I spotted only one fly, in twenty minutes, that escaped either the fish or the birds.

This beat (I have only ever fished the downstream half) has undergone some significant clearance work since I was last here - this is both good and bad for the angler. Overall the water level is now significantly lower throughout the beat and there is less holding water for fish - I also sensed the fish I caught were smaller than on previous visits (although one fish did reach 14 inches). On a positive, the beat is now much easier to both wade and cast and some streamy runs have been developed.

8 Trout

Only fished between 11:30 and 1, one 5" WBT caught on pheasant tail nymph fished duo.

1 Trout