Feedback & Reports

1 Barbel, 13 Chub

4 x barbel to 8lb. Lots of chub to 3lb 8oz.

4 Barbel, 35 Chub

Fantastic day at middle hill court, excellent access to all the swims. Well done to stefan for all the work put in.

3 Barbel, 60 Chub

Low level, very short fish activity

2 Trout

Fastish water flow, clear and moderately high, not much insect activity on the surface, no rising fish. Fast high flow made it difficult getting nymphs to depth.
2 small BT caught in rapids at top of beat on small PTN patterns.

2 Trout

Nil return.

First time on this lake Lovely spot to fish. Couple of carp mooching around the shallows when we arrived which disappeared shortly afterwards. Didn't see another fish all day. Tried a few different methods and baits but was not to be. Levels quite low, surprising after the amount of rain through the winter.

Fished fro 11..00 to 16.00 Didn't see a single rise, the air temperature started to rise as I was packing up and I suspect any activity would have been later on as it was the day before on Lyonshall. beat. Saw 2 kingfisher so that was nice and it is a lovely beat. I am sure there are trout there but no looking up.

Just the two chub. Fished the swim furthest upstream on the upper section. Looked bang on but no whiskery ones and no chub after mid-afternoon - very odd.

2 Chub

A red letter session .... fished between ten and quarter to two !!! Sublime dry fly sport today ....The wild streams are at there best now, having previously seen this morning some remarks on catch returns !! Im sure folks visualise a wild stream as a babbling Cherry Brook as described well by Mike Weaver ..... The local ones demand some graft i can tell you !! Jungle tactics, go armed with your secateurs too, to do a bit of a clip back here and there ....I always do twenty minutes tidy up where ever I am !!!!
Pocket water was were lots of the six to eight inch fish nailed my dry fly !!! Tops of streamy pools also great fun ....
Nothing huge, all peas in a pod , between six and ten inches, but still fun with the six foot, two weight.... superb stuff !!!
Running perfect now, and fish feisty and aggressive...
Here's a point .... whys no one fishing the Usk Wild Streams ???? I see they've hardly been touched this season ... Bran, Honddu, some fab water there too ....
Had a quick recce up at Oakfield beat, just up the road too, looking nice... back here soon!! Clients in the Elan Valley for a couple of days now .... looks like perfect drizzly weather inbound too ....sorted !!! A cracking few hours on a local favourite stream.....

23 Trout