Feedback & Reports

Warm, bright and sunny day.
Downstream wind on and off.
Euro nymphed all day

2 Trout

Bright and warm, but some cloud cover in the morning.. No significant hatches going on and both fish (c 9-12ins) took a hare's ear dropper. Sadly had to leave early so not sure what happened later in the day.

2 Trout

Unusual start to the day, met another couple of fishermen who thought they had booked the beat for the day, turns out they had the wrong day. Hopefully they found another beat to fish today and they have a good day tomorrow.

Bright start to the day, water a good hight and very clear. Brought a small WBT to hand on PTN early in the day. Clouded over so went for dries, although very little rising. Nothing until mid afternoon then a couple of 1lb WBT on a dark Dun.

And finally a lovely fish of about 2.5 - 3lb, taken under the trees on far bank about half way down first field. A spider was too hard to resist.

The Usk can be a difficult river and unpredictable but when you have days like today it is just magic. Swallows, Heron and a Kingfisher at the bottom of beat..... and four fish in great condition all returned.

4 Trout

7 inches on the gauge, so quite low, clear.
V sunny first thing, then a little cloudier.
Trickle of small olives in the morning, some mayfly mid-afternoon.
Caught all fish on nymph, only saw 3 fish rise all day, including one that rose to my dry fly (I missed it).

3 Trout

1 Trout

12 inch 390gms brownie. Dry fly at Bottom pool - black fly with blue trim end of morning. Weather dry and warm some fish rising - some Mayfly and black midge type predominant. Went on to rain and dull.

1 Trout

1.25 kg brown trout taken on blue dun hackle wet fly. Very bright sunny conditions.

1 Trout

3 Trout

Conditions seemed promising, but only one small trout to report. If I had managed to bring to the net a larger fish that I hooked briefly, it would have turned a disappointing day into a success!

1 Trout

The few upwings hatching today sailed down the river largely unmolested. We had just one fish on a dry, the rest coming on a mix of nymphs and small streamers.

10 Trout