Feedback & Reports

We had a great day yesterday on the Upper Usk. about 17 fish between us from all over the beat. Biggest just over a pound. Great hatches of fly (tons of different species, which was only dampened by the rain in late afternoon). Also lots of small fish visible in river. Good sign all is healthy.

5 trout best 1?lb. 1 grayling all fish returned. Fished for 2hours Cool and cloudy with hardly any fly hatching or fish rising. All trout on nymph grayling on dry fly. A delightful stretch of water.

Once again sincere thanks to all of you at the Foundation, you're a godsend to reservoir anglers like us who don't have access to game rivers here in the Midlands. In the words of good old Arnie, we'll be back. Speak to you soon.

Just a note to thank you for your efforts in organising the fishing day yesterday. We had a wonderful time, everybody caught fish and Louis and Rich were great guides and excellent company.

I will have no hesitation in repeating the event next year.

I had a great time on Saturday. I did not manage to get any more trout - I got a number of fish to rise but for some reason my ability to hook them disappeared. I moved down to the Ty-mawr pool later and realised my ambition to catch a shad! I called it a day when I had caught 4. I found the best bit about fishing for them was seeing them mob the fly - very exciting in anticipation of the take. Many thanks for putting me on to the pool - I would never have chosen to fish there by myself, I was under the impression they tend to hang about in streamy water.

Cliff and I paid our first visit to the Llynfi Dulas on Saturday and had a great day despite the colour coming from one of the feeder streams. We had thirty fish between us at least three of which were over a pound. All on mayfly patterns. It was at its best when the river began to clear at around 3.30 p.m. Pretty good hatch of mayflies considering that it is a just a little early for them really.

The Edw fished like an absolute dream, by the way. I'm not sure I've ever enjoyed day's fishing more. One particular beauty was just over the pound mark and 14 inches, but there were plenty more around the 8 and 9 inch mark. Lots of mayfly about.
Keep up the good work!

...unfortunately having had several takes did not catch anything, hopefully this will be remedied next time. I still enjoyed the day out there with Kim Tribes company. A man with a wealth of knowledge and fun to be with. Thank you.

My brother and I enjoyed an afternoons fishing on beat 16 of the River Edw on 14th May 2007, using vouchers from your sister scheme the Eden River Trust. Absentmindedly we forgot to post our catch returns into the beat box. Unfortunately my brother did not catch anything but this did not detract in the slightest from a wonderful day out. Congratulations on operating such an excellent scheme.

2007 is the first time I have participated in your roving voucher scheme and I have to say how fantastic a service you provide. Your admin lady who processes the payments and issues vouchers is super, the directions provided are clear and the whole set up has an air about it that tells you it is run by enthusiastic staff.
I have so for been able to find myself "out of mobile coverage" on three occasions and I am looking forward to the rest of the season, especially now it has rained.