Feedback & Reports

Fishing partner (Russell Hill) hit a fresh moving fish at 10:45am on a surface fished black & yellow tube that sadly threw the hook in the tail out of Lady Alexandra.
Shortly after I managed a slightly coloured resident cock fish around 7-8lbs on a orange Ally's shrimp pattern fished on a short leader & a sink 3 MOW tip. Hooked/landed/safely returned in the head of Lady Alexandra.
Water still dropping and clearing but what a fly fishing beat this is! Love it.. No more fish seen for the rest of the day sadly but plenty of healthy Trout.

1 Salmon, 5 Trout

A beautiful day but very little action. Two fish rose and one small one stayed on. Should have been perfect but possibly too bright.

1 Trout

A great day fishing with fine weather, mostly sunny and 15-16 degrees. Plenty of fly life although fish were being selective and so had to keep changing fly. March Brown worked around 11am in fast water and hooked and lost a good fish. Later changed to Iron Blue Dun and had several fish in the shallow water. Fish moved to deeper water in afternoon when the temperature rose, and were periodically supping small flies - a lot of head and tailing. Small black gnats worked and caught a few fish. Lost 2 very good fish 2lb+.

9 Trout

7 Trout

Beautiful venue but very small head of fish, lost 2 good sized trout on small gold head squirrel tail. On talking to a local angler who doesn't bother to fish there any more due to low fish stocks, (his words not mine) it makes searching for the odd fish frustrating. Never the less I will be back!!

14 x 4-12 inch fish plus a good few salmon parr. Mostly on CDC dries and the odd nymph from faster water, fish rising in every pool, great afternoon fishing.

14 Trout

Nil return

Good days fishing. Had a big take from a large salmon who turned from 40 yards and came straight at me. I was wading at waist high in the stones and he came within 3 feet, passed me like a rocket and jumped out of the water onto the gravel behind me, threw the Devon Minow and jumped again back into the water. I saw him on the gravel - he looked well into the 20lbs plus. I stood there shock as it all happened so quick. I had kept a tight line as when he threw the lure it came back and hit me in the shoulder. What an experience.

I had a fabulous day on the Middle Escley. The weather was warm and sunny. When I arrived at the river it looked a little coloured at the very beginning of the beat and where it flowed under the bridge however as I moved on the water became clearer.I struggled to get through the first couple of fences but the effort is well worth it - in my opinion the river becomes even better as you move upstream. There was a amazing amount of fly life, midges, sedges, black gnats various olives and an extraordinary hatch of large up-wing flies - I thought at first they were Mayflies but surely it was too early for them and would it be too late for March Browns? anyway the hatch was fantastic even though my eyesight was not! Unfortunately, I did encounter the lady owner of the property near the river and wished I had paid more attention to a previous piece of feedback and avoided any confrontation by taking the footbridge just below her land. Whilst I fished through, I kept religiously to the right bank and had a reasoned discussion with her although it was clear that anglers cause her great distress. Rather like Betsy Trottwood and her donkeys, she hears her dog barking at the approaching angler and rushes out to confront them for fishing though "her garden" as she described it. It seems for her a bit of a moral crusade, declaring "we are vegetarians and care for the fish".
I felt this was an argument I was not going to win so (very cordially) I walked through "her garden" to above the waterfall and fished on.
I caught 6 beautiful wild brown trout - one of a size that I needed my net to land. All on a parachute Adams. Occasionally casting to a rare rising fish I had most success casting into likely places. I rose and missed quite a few more. I bailed out pretty well exhausted at a ford near Neuadd-lwd thinking I must be near the end! What a beat - had I really only fished just over half of it!
I'll be back - thank you Wye and Usk what a privilege to fish here.

6 Trout

Caught 2 trout but had to leave by 1pm due to other commitments.

2 Trout