Feedback & Reports

Arrived in drizzle to a river high and with the colour of 5 day old stewed tea. No hatch to speak of but managed to tempt 20 WBT on a small green may and Umberto Oreglini's March Brown dry variant. (check it out on YouTube).
Great day.

20 Trout

A late May day, cloud cover, river at summer height - conditions where you would expect a good hatch and freely rising trout. Maybe it was a little cool at 14 degrees but while there were some flies hatching, it was a hard day's fishing. Three trout in all - 8, 12 and 14 inches. One to a upright Olive pattern, one to a GRHE nymph and one to an Adams dry. Was hanging on for an evening hatch but the rain came in at 7pm and I left. Always good to be out on the river though.

3 Trout

9 Browns caught. Most fish on a dry Adams, 1 on a PTN. Largest fish 14 inches. Average size 10 inches. Nice stretch of river and good fly hatches. Big Olive hatch and some Mayfly around.

9 Trout

River water was clear. I fished dry fly - and caught nothing, broken by one!

Fished two short sessions. 17th ( 10.00 -15.00) and 18th (16.30 - 19.30). I wish I could have stayed longer! The WUF description of the beat is accurate and all of the water is accessible and wading easy, when required.
Two WBT of about 10oz, caught and returned on 18th, both on size 14 GRHE nymph. Sadly I missed a good olive hatch, earlier that day, when a fellow angler, apparently had some spectacular sport. On the 17th I blanked, largely due to my lack of practice on such challenging water!
It is ten years since I had fished the middle Usk and had forgotten just how difficult it can be.
Conditions cloudy with good breaks of bright sunshine, but a cold wind. Water very clear and fish easily spooked. Great fishing that tests ones skills to the limit - not to be missed

2 Trout

Slow morning but picked up in the afternoon with three fish on the dry. One a good size. Very easy access and wading made for a lovely day

3 Trout

See report from Tuesday 10th May.

3 Trout

2 very tough days in torrential rain at times, with a very strong flow throughout. We managed 2 trout on day 1 (10th) and 3 on day 2 (11th), all to a Diawl Bach fished as deeply as we could get it in the conditions. Biggest fish was 14" and all looked in pristine condition. Stayed at a fabulous B&B just down the road called Cefn Parc and would strongly recommend it: warm, comfortable, good breakfast and vast packed lunch provided.

5 Trout

Our first time here, having driven over the beat on the bypass to other places so many times! First impressions were very good with the river at a lovely height and relatively clear after weekend rain. A warm day with an upstream breeze - and very heavy rain later in the day (which called an end to proceedings). There is a lot of fishing on the beat, with lots of variety just as described.
There was a rise in the late morning about 11-12. Lots of surface activity with plenty of offers to dry flies and three fish taken to rusty klinkhammers and small red Wulff, of up to 15 inches. After that more difficult but there was interest all day and a couple more fish were taken on small upstream nymphs, with PTN the most successful.
Lots of great offers missed and certainly less rusty anglers would have walked away with a bigger bag. A great place to fish and I expect will become a firm favourite. Highly recommended beat.

6 Trout

Lovely day with blue sky and hazy sunshine. Air temperature rising to well over 20C. Water temp. 12C. Arrived at 12 noon and fished until 3.45pm. According to fellow angler there had been a light hatch of medium olives, resulting in a rise, at around 11am. I fished dry olive pattern and had 6 trout up to 1lb 2oz, fishing to occasional rising trout or fishing 'blind'.

6 Trout