Feedback & Reports

Slow morning roving the middle / top section in strong winds and drizzle with only a couple of chub. Mid day trotting with meat also difficult due to the wind with just a couple more chub for my efforts. Settled in one swim for the evening and put a good bed of hemp and pellet out with the bait dropper and it was an action packed three hours with 6 wonderful barbel up to 9lbs and a couple of bonus chub.

6 Barbel, 9 Chub

1 chub and 1 perch

1 Chub, 1 Other

Both on dry fly. One very small but the other OK for such a small stream.

2 Trout

X5 perch

2 Trout, 5 Other

Fly fishing the Usk Res, what a waste of time and money. Anywhere you might get room for your back cast there will be some Eastern European gentlemen sat at the water’s edge with 3 rods a piece, power baiting (all set up with Carp alarms) plus the little bit of room that’s left, what is not overgrown and where there is enough space for a back cast, they will be walking around with their 4th rod spinning. The only time they won’t be spinning will be when they are walking back to the boot of their cars to put fish out of sight into freezer boxes.
Thought we would stay for the evening rise 19.30 onwards as the power baiters had left and just when you thought the fishing up the Usk Res, couldn’t be abused any more than you have already seen, cars pulled up, men get out, pull their telescopic rods out which are already set up and start spinning all around you. Place is a joke, roads are terrible, Res is unkept, Welsh Water turn up between 9am and 10.30 to check you have paid your money, anyone up to no good is either not there at that time or just stop abusing the fishing as they see the Welsh water vehicle arriving. The place is pouched and power baited to the extreme.

3 Other

4 Barbel, 18 Chub

float meat and pellets

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

4 Trout

Fly fishing 0830 - 1200. A good few fish rising, not interested in larger flies but happy to take small buzzers, size 16. Went quiet after 1115, when the weather changed for the worse. Fish caught seemed to be mostly recently stocked with poor fins.

4 Trout

River below one foot at Llanstephan. Fished with spiders with a gold head flashback hars ear on the point. Had two brownies on the bottom part of the beat, and five brownies and a grayling on the top section. Lost a few and had quite a few lightning pulls and failed to connect. Unlike my last visit none of the brownies were big. Early afternoon really cold gusty wind got up, and quite literally everything stopped. Decided to leave it there at that point. I tend to always use the same set up of spiders across and down and it pretty much catches fish right through to November.

7 Trout, 1 Grayling