Feedback & Reports

A great beat well maintained by Colin and a pleasure to fish.

2 Barbel, 5 Chub

First time I've fished this river and I was pleased with everything. Colin the baliff (gilly) was a godsend on his own a lovely man who can and will put you on the hot spots. I had a brilliant time. Most swims are easy accessible. I'll be back thank you. P.s. river average level and I fished using a swim feeder.

8 Barbel, 12 Chub

Low level - all fish caught on small pellets/meat cubes.

6 Barbel, 4 Chub

I used wet and dry flies and caught nothing - I had a couple of nibbles. The river was very low and I was fishing in the middle of the day.
For your general interest, I was fishing the night before on a friends beat on the Wye and caught eight small fish - one was a 1lb grayling. I went fishing at Ashford House yesterday and again caught nothing - same conditions but I did see some big fish from a high bank. Today I am fishing at Peterstone Hall on the Usk.

River low, but made wading easier on some pools. Trout caught on home tied black bug, and GRHE nymphs. Nothing rising.

2 Trout

River low and clear, disappointed to find so few swims available, most of the riverbank is overgrown making access to most swims near on impossible. All fish taken on feeder with pellet. Stayed at Flanesford (5th time), accomodation excellent as usual.

6 Barbel, 1 Chub

River un-fishable with large amounts of weed coming down at all levels of the water. Is someone weedcutting? Gave up and went to the pub.

Again water low at .42m. My turn to blank today as fish were hard to come by. My guest Dai Marlow landed one nice chub and one trout of half pound late on. One stale salmon showed at the Chine at 7pm.
No luck at all again on the dries at dusk but very few steady rises to target within casting distance. Also tried subsurface flies late on but no takes either. Need fresh water.

1 Trout, 1 Other

Other = dace. Cage feeder fishing halibut pellet & luncheon meat.
Also wish to report a incident: when we got to our chosen swim at around 7.15am there were anglers on the opposite bank fishing with their bait under the trees on our bank which we did not object to but they objected to us fishing in our chosen swims even though we were fishing only about 3ft from the bank.

1 Barbel, 10 Other

The water was low and clear, but there were a few Olives, Caddis and small stoneflies hatching. Most of the fish came to nymphs. The Graying were in good condition, the best of about 1 1/2 pound, most around 3/4 pound the trout were all small 6"ers.

2 Trout, 12 Grayling