Feedback & Reports

A brief note of appreciation for all the work you have done to make the Passport Scheme the success that it is. I fished 2 beats this weekend Llynfi Dulas & Beulah Cammarch and had the most marvellous time.
I drove home on Sunday afternoon feeling that these beats not only offered exceptional fishing but they also generated a great sense of well being from spending time immersed in nature and the beautiful British countryside. Catching wild brown trout was a great pleasure, made all the better by the knowledge that these fisheries had been repaired and restored.

We had a wonderful day at river Usk the 4. of May. It was
only just a little bit to warm and it affected our ability to catch a fish, we were quite active but the fish wasent. We still caught 5 nice trout, which we released. Four of them came from lower part of the strech, and one in the upper I do not remember the pools name. We saw though much more fish in the upper part pools. I will hopefully be able to come back one day and maybe try also for the king of salmonids.
With best regards to you and the staff around you, expecially Simon for good information about Fenni Fach

Yesterday,10 May 2006,I fished the Holme Lacy 3 Beat of the Wye, as per my booking and I am absolutely chuffed to bits to inform you that I had a superb fighting fit, bar of silver 11lb Hen fish on the spinner at about 3.20pm.
Colin Richardson, the Ghillie, was a really nice bloke and thoroughly knowledgeable and totally helpfull during my day on the River, and as per your suggestion, I rewarded him accordingly.
I made it clear to him what it meant to catch only my second Salmon ever, a memory that will never leave me.....he apparently was just as pleased to have seen me take the fish.
for your information,the fish never left the water,was NOT netted,and the lure released in the flow.....and I felt really proud to see it swim off strongly....with a good firm hand shake from Colin.
I hope that I will be booking some more Salmon fishing with you again soon......hopefully with the same fantastic result....

Thank you for sorting this out. We had two lovely days fishing with really nice weather. I picked up a lot of fish mainly trout with a few grayling on Ty Newydd fishing wet flies on the gravely run and my friends caught a few on dries. We returned all fish. We didnt catch anything out of the ordinary best trout was around 10 inches, but it was really enjoyable.

On Fenni Fach yesterday, I managed 2 trout, the best being 1lb and my 2 friends blanked. We all loved it though and I have to say that this could well be the most beautiful stretch of river Ive ever fished. The water was gin clear and I imagine relatively low. I could spot fish in some pools pretty large actually and I found that fish were easily spooked. On seeing rising fish, I would slowly wade into a pool without so I thought making too much of a din, yet the rises would stop. I fish the English chalk streams quite regularly so I know all about spooky fish, but these were especially wary. I couldnt raise any to dries despite using F-Flies and CDCs that work well for me elsewhere very challenging, but then thats the point I was broken in one pool by a really savage take to the wet fly looked a decent fish as I saw what looked like a very broad golden flash in the water as the fish took.

One suggestion for Fenni Fach it was quite difficult to follow the map and it would be great if there were signs by the side of some of the named pools just so anglers can tell where they are with a little more precision. They would obviously need to be of a design that would not look outlandish in such beautiful surroundings.

We will all be back, especially to Fenni Fach.

Thanks again and best wishes,

Wonderful day yesterday, lots of brown trout around, but we are still too hopeless to catch anything.

A hot day! few grannom mainly egg laying. Only sporadic rises Caought only 4 fish three at 1lb lots of misses. I tried nymphing but not a touch. Small dry blue dun was best. bailiff reported fishing had been difficult this season. The other 3 anglers there had no luck at all. It is a lovely stretch, very easy access and wading and I shall ceratinly go again.

Had great day on Penpont, lovely stetch of river.

No real hatch during the day (Cold down stream wind in afternoon), but delighted to see how much life there was under the stones in the river, March brown nymphs in abundance, and lots of Stone flies (Think these were Yellow Sallys?) plus a few Yellow May nymphs.

Caught 6 fish in total upto 12 inches. In morning on size 14 Stone Clinger nymph and two fish later in day on dry Kilkhammer ( Was only dry I could get fish to come too).

Not a good day at all, we tried all methods in all the usual places. Not a lot more to report really, other than to state the obvious. Not one sighting or take of any description for either of us all day. It's very unusual to come away without even a touch between the pair of us on this beat as we have had reasonable success in the past.

Just to let you know I had a rather lovely days fishing on Friday. The river was up and rising slowly, but still fishable. I did't catch a huge number of fish but they were all a good size, although nothing over 2lbs.
Thanks again

We had a great days fishing on Saturday. The river was in perfect condition and the grayling were very obliging. We caught approx 20 fish ? all returned obviously ? with 3 14in and 5 12in, the balance were mainly 8 to 12 inch fish.

Most fell to dry flies ? Tupps, Klinkhammer etc, and a few to PT nymphs. One trout at 10in was also returned.

I?ll be in touch soon to book another day before the cold weather arrives.