Feedback & Reports

The river was a good height and colour with level slowly falling throughout the day. We fished from 9am to 4pm burnt off the bank by the unrelenting sun in our faces (don't complain). Total catch 6 barbel and one chub taken by one rod all on feeder fished pellet.

Dawn at the head of the rock pool with a Heron on the large rock downstream, 3 young otters swimming past, even a few salmon showing lower down, then that wonderful ZZZ and into first Wye Salmon for a few years! Catching another later on in the "Run" at Mid day in bright hot sunshine was just smug. Wife and baby joined me for a picnic lunch. A glorious day. Thank you to the other friendly and helpful rods and also WUF!

One grayling on a beadhead nymph. Sunny and warm.

This would be our first visit to Penpont. The advice given, by staff at the Wye & Usk Foundation, was to fish with small'ish flies. Such advice proved spot-on, we fished a variety of Nymphs - mostly size 16 and 18, and caught a total of six hard-scrapping brown trout.
Best pattern was the humble 'Hares ear beadhead', although a nice 16 inch brownie fell to a self-fashioned 'Plongo-grub' - a simple twisted white wool abdomen / seal hair thorax pattern.

Most of the fish were taken downstream of the main bridge - three in particular being taken from a beautiful 40 metre glide. Plenty of white water throughout the beat so, unless you know the beat reasonably well, it really does pay dividends to study each section carefully rather than just walk on by. I spotted a few nice trout lurking in difficult-to-reach slacks; I also managed to spook each of these fish with my less-than-accurate casting technique, otherwise I may have caught a few more.

1 barbel 5Lbs 6ozs, 5 small chub, 3 dace, eels. River dropping by a foot snd colour improving over weekend. Several salmon moving.

Fished hard from 6am to 10pm without a touch. Water in perfect nick at about 1ft 10inches but bright sunny conditions weren't ideal. Thought this would probably have hampered everyone but was surprised to learn that they'd had 6 from the Rectory just downstream. Only saw one fish, a big red fish in the Bachawy pool.

Bright hot sunny day. River fined down. Blanked due to the angler not the venue which is fantastic. Can't even blame the canoes which kept well clear of my swim in the lower section (barley field?).

River still a few feet above summer levels, didnt have that many bites, just had two Barbel all day around 5lbs each.

Total of eight rainbow trout caught between the two people fishing. All between 2lb and 2.5lb. All fish in very good condition. Also a large number of perch caught and released.
Good days fishing, but a little disappointed in the amenities. Not even a toilet available on the entire lake.

1 8lbs barbel and 5 chub to 4lb. 1 huge eel approx 4lb. good directions and fantastic swims, well set up. Thanks WUF