Feedback & Reports

Well I believe I was a bit over optimistic about my chances today! Water was very low, gin clear and very cold!!! Air temp didn't rise above 4 degrees. Only one fish seen as I moved down river. In afternoon there was a sporadiac hatch of BWOs and pretty big ones at that. Think I wait till the weather heats up before I try again.

A bit more time this visit, so explored and fished the much more extensive lower section - and it is stunningly beautiful with all the classic small falls so often pictured. I even found a few rising fish which were too shy or I was too clumsy to catch. Lovely day even if blank.
Note: The WUF fishing pressure on this beat is very light but the bankside angling path and all access points to the pools are well worn and I have met very pleasant other anglers who "have a season rod" on this stretch and know several others who also have "season rods". What is the basis of the WUF access to this beat because it certainly isn't lightly fished?

WUF note - The owner reserves the right to allow a select few local rods to fish this beat at his discetion but on the whole it is one of our more lightly fished beats.

Beautiful end of season day with cold start but warm sun. A short session saw a few rising fish with only one stupid enough to accept my offerings. Concentrated on images to sustain me in the Winter months ahead!

River clear and at a good level. Sew a few small fish rising and saw quite a few fry but nothing caught.

Not a sausage. Lovely stretch of river though. Thanks.

Wonderful afternoon on a beautiful stretch of river. Fish were hard to come across though and after loosing one fish on a gold head nymph in some fast water I didn't manage to catch anything until dusk when a Deers Hair Sedge tucked under the far bank managed to produce a hard fighting fish of about 12 inches. Lovely!

Water very coloured from storm evening before, fishing hard going, few strikes but none landed.

Arrived in light rain and the first juicy looking pool directly opposite the meadow car park has a nasty looking grey brown slick down the middle and smelt of effluent (AKA sewage ).
Went upstream and sure enough just below the confluence of R.Senni and R.Usk an orange pipe firing out volumes of said effluent with lots of small suspended solids and small bits of paper. This created the unpleasant slick and the smell. Back to the car ( walked past the sewage pumping station!) and found a water bottle and filled it with the pipe discharge ( hmmm enjoyable). Note this was NOT surface run off of which there were others nearby of a totally different colour, smell and free from suspended solids.
Went to the bottom of the beat some 1.5 miles downstream and managed to catch one small trout but my heart not in it so went to find a phone to report the pollution (mobile forgotten). EA Hotline poor as they required a postcode or street name to identify the area.
Otherwise this would be a lovely beat but is now spoilt for me.
In three years this is my first genuinely adverse experience of a WUF beat. Shame.

WUF note - We have followed up this report and the EA are investigating immediately, 16th Aug 2012.

Conclusion to report - EA sent an officer out late on the night of 15th August following the initial anglers report and located an overflow pipe that belonged to Welsh Water. It had become blocked and wa discharging sewerage into the river but has subsequently been jetted and cleared.

Even with the conditions and water perfect we found it hard to locate the fish. 6/7 brown trout to 12" to hand and approx the same on long distance catch and release. Possibly the water levels were a bit to low. All fish caught on heavy beaded nymphs or spiders.

I am a relative novice and did not catch anything but I did have the pleasure of a otter swim right by me and then took himself off into the bank, gobsmacked!! beautiful river, thoroughly enjoyed myself. Thanks WUF for all your hard work and to Dai for the advice he gave me, I'll be back!!