Feedback & Reports

Cool and cloudy until about 3pm when the sun finally came out. Olives hatching throughout the session but mainly mid-afternoon and hardly any mayflies seen. About 5 trout seen rising one of which I caught on cdc dry fly (about 12 inches). Another one of about 10 inches was caught on a Copper John nymph by the weir.

2 Trout

4 trout taken. 10 perch caught and returned.

4 Trout, 10 Other

1 Trout

A lot of perch on the worm. Better than no fish at all. 4 Trout on the fly all rainbows, small fish better than no fish. Lovely clear warm morning. Yet again I spent 20 mins plus picking up rubbish left by night anglers.

4 Trout, 8 Other

Four caught on spinner. Terrible to see the amount of fires that has been lit and tubs of sweetcorn and maggots that had been used as bait.

4 Trout

River quite low. Chubb caught on a nymph pattern. Two trout on nymph (hares ear). Remainder on pale dun, but these were only being taken by small trout in the evening. No fish were rising for mayfly, even though there were quite good hatches.

6 Trout, 2 Chub

Just a couple of very small trout and a grayling on all types of nymphs tried all day - must be losing my touch!

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

Only fished for two hours in the evening, nice conditions but blank.

Having fished two days on the Usk this week with varying degrees of success this turned out to be a near perfect day. I arrived at the beat around mid-day reflecting that dry flies hadn't been overwhelmingly successful (in terms of numbers of fish) on my 2 previous outings and wondering how I should approach my day. Flies were coming off the water again but this time fish were rising to them, not in great numbers or with abandon, but enough to give away their position. What's more, these were good quality fish for a small stream. I saw none of the usual 5 to 6 inch specimens, these were more like 10 to 12 inches and were present in most of the expected holding areas. With more skill I might have taken a dozen of these beauties but I was well pleased with four. All returned.

4 Trout

There is something about this beat that brings me back, maybe its the challenge of the very difficult wading in the top sections, balanced with the rewards. Rarely get away without some sort of wetting, so take care and take a change of clothes!

5 Trout