Feedback & Reports

After an evening before with no luck on the same beat with the river perfect and a weather forecast of bright sunshine today, I got to the river at dawn hopefully to get a few hours in before the sun got too much.

Took a solid fresh run fish about 12lb in the bridge pool about 7am, on a Usk Grub tube

Nothing else seen apart a huge amount of Shad, especially in the Rock Pool. Had more than 15 from there in one run of the pool, a lot of stripping!

1 Salmon

Pleasant day out, nothing seen apart from 5 Shad caught.

5 Other

Quite a strange day. 3 salmon lost between 08.30 and 10.30, 3 landed between 12.15 and 12.45. Schools of shad everywhere.
2 cock fish from Rock Pool at 10 and 13 caught by me. 15lb from Gravel catch to Grant Holmes.

The river just died in the afternoon, very little rising going on aside from a several shad in Recory Pot/The Run. Be back soon.

3 Salmon, 6 Trout, 15 Other

nothing seen or caught

success with a home tied fly. A12lb lump of silver again from the rock pool great scrap

Nothing to the net , but lost a fish in Ty Mawr with some speculative spinning. A big fish as well which eventually snapped 18lb maxima after some storming runs. Will definitely be replacing my under gunned little spinning rod after today’s encounter with my first Wye springer.

Rock Pool, 0927hrs. River height was 2 foot 9” and very slowly falling and clearing. 1x 8lb Cock fish took a blue tube fly.
Released in a strong state .

1 Salmon

Arrived at lunchtime with the water sitting at 2ft 10’ on the gauge , water was not too bad with visibility sitting around the 3ft mark. Worked my way through the beat from the Rock pool finishing at the tail of the Gravel run where the heavens opened up . Went back to the Rock pool around 17.00 hrs where the colour of the water was now coming in a chocolate colour. Time to pack up , nice afternoon, finishing with 5 good trout taking the tube fly , didn’t expect to see any salmon at that height , none seen .

5 Trout

1 Other