Feedback & Reports

A lovely beat - and fond memories of the falls here on the river walk 2 years ago. By memory there was as much - or even more - water coming over the falls yesterday as in that November but no salmon seen yesterday.

River in superb condition and a cracking hatch - brook duns, small and medium olives - but the fish didnt seem to respond although due to professional business we were not on the water until 4 pm.

J.S. had 2 trout - 5" and 12" on a heptagenid nymph fished new zealand style below a klinkhamer. J.B. had 1 5" on a parachute ginger quill. And yours truly - blanked for the second time this season having badly scared one tiddler in the Crai.

After much debate and with regret we had to forego the swedish massage mentioned in the booking info!

11th May - Dan Y Parc - very windy conditions making for difficult casting. Caught four trout - largest approx 1 lb.

13th May - Glanusk Estate - drizzly/overcast conditions - caught six. Largest 1.1/2 lb

15th May - Bridge Meadow - Heavy rain showers - no catch

Many thanks.

14 trout in total. Fingerling to 13" in size.
Also had 2 grayling, 1 fingerling and 1 12".

Small hatches here and there and tried with the dry but came up empty. Put the hare's ears beads back on and right back into them.

Fished this very nice beat but to no avail. Both Ken and I didn?t catch anything but conditions over the last few days have been poor, wet and cold, not ideal. What made the trip worth while though for me was being waist deep in the middle of the river and witnessing a salmon of @ 8-10lb surface a rods length in front of me - fantastic. We met Charles as arranged who proved to be a very knowledgeable chap, but I think even he would have been surprised if we had caught fish yesterday. Maybe initially, the cold dry spring seems to have suspended the start of the season? With regards to the beat though, it?s a lovely place and we shall definitely be back when conditions are better. It was also nice to visit the Wye and Usk Foundation office and meet Wendy and Alyson and put names to faces. You do a fantastic job ladies along with the rest of the Foundation staff and thank you again for a memorable visit.

Lovely beat with very interesting mixture of runs, gulleys & flats. Sadly it remained overcast with a S.Easterly cold breeze all day until about 5.00pm when things started to move but I had to go home as a fox had got in my chicken run and had more sport than we did!!! result 1 apiece, Fox 3 out of 3. Must spend more time out with the gun.

Water a little high. Shortlived contact with a fish in top of Bridge pool. Invaluable tuition from Jeremy. Predicted to be good from mon 25th. Thanks.

Didnt get there till 1.30 is, started at the bottom of the beat in front on the big house, between the two streams.
Some colour to the water. 2 hours of frantic fishing caught 8, 10-12", missed at least twice that number. Half caught on beaded hairs ear nymph below a klink and half caught on the Klink.

Lost another 4 fish in 5 minutes in the run above the stream, caught a couple about 10 inch working my way up to the slow section above the wood. River a bit higher than im used to, so some areas were not wadeable.

Flies of every description hatching in great profusion including may flies, the odd fish surface feeding, the klink brought a few up. About 6 pm it went it went quiet and never picked up. Packed it in about 9pm. Had a pint in the Bell ?2.80 a pint !

Lovely beat this.

Just a quick note to thank you for pointing me in the right direction for yesterday's trip. Penpont was on good form - as you said. I took six good fish (many in the 'Penpont porker' class) in an afternoon. All fish fell to dry mayflies or mayfly nymphs during sporadic but exciting mayfly activity.

Please accept this as my catch return.

Many thanks!

21 May 2009
B30 Hergest Court
comments: Moved date after wash out. River high and a bit coloured. 4 brown trout largest 10in all on mayfly. Good beat. Couldn't find how to get to bottom of beat.
Excellent service.

20 May 2009
B40 Cefn-Rhosan Fawr
comments: 2 trout largest 10in on dry fly River very high.
Not much rising. Good beat.

16 May 2009
B31 Lyepole
comments: 13 Trout largest 12in. All on dry fly. Good beat.

13 May 2009
B37 Skenfrith
comments: 12 brown trout largest 14in. All on dry fly.
Plenty of fly life even though weather was bad. Great beat.

4 rods on 21st May.Sorry forgot to post our returns. 15 trout caught and returned---many more missed!! Most enjoyable day. Many thanks.