Feedback & Reports

Fishing with guide who had booked the beat (Illtyd Griffiths). One salmon about 10 1/2 lbs from the Ferry Pool, taken on an Usk Grub. This was my first salmon! River still at good height, dropping after rain the previous weekend.

1 Salmon

Fly fishing, wet fly, catch and release.

17 Trout, 4 Grayling

A bright clear day made a change from all the rain we had on Saturday. River still high but dropping back to its normal level by the day end. Because of the difficult wading conditions kept close to the bank and worked my way up stream. All fish came from Spring Pool Gutter on weighted beaded nymphs - Red tag/Pink bug. Lost two good fish but hooked into a very nice Grayling 14" on the Pink bug and after a short fight landed and carefully released. Had a few knocks but river still running too high, so I called it a day at about 5pm.

1 Grayling, 1 Other

Fished in the morning, but river was rising and colouring up very rapidly so we ended up only managing a couple of hours.

1st Wye Salmon, #8 Cascade taken from the Orchard. 10lbs coloured Hen safely returned

1 Salmon

One salmon caught, about 12lb. River rose rapidly and coloured at midday and became unfishable.

1 Salmon

A lovely day on the beat. Our second via the 2016 Atlantic Salmon Trust auction lot. A very good water height looked promising although it was also a little coloured, which made for difficult wading on dodgy knees on an unfamiliar stretch of the river. We saw a few fish, I caught a suicidal brownie whilst trying to lengthen my line and also had a couple of tugs from something other than a rock. An enjoyable day notwithstanding.

No fish seen all day. The river was quite coloured. Height was 1ft 5 inches on the Gromian marker. It rained most of the day. Light wind only. This is a wonderful beat. It was a huge pleasure to be able to have a day here, so big thanks to the Foundation for setting up the admin.

Fished Mon 26, Tue 27. Water high and coloured nothing seen.

Numbers approximate. See report on same day from Ty-Newdd.

15 Trout, 40 Grayling