Feedback & Reports

River conditions atrocious. High, rising and the colour of milk chocolate. Fishing virtually impossible but had a go. Actually caught an eel but that was all. River continued to rise throughout the day. We had some nice views of floating trees!!

Arrived at 8, river 0.86m on the gauge (rose 6cms in next six hours). Well it finally happened after only twenty visits this year! A 12lb cock fish [colouring] was caught on an orange/gold flying C. My first salmon was safely returned. I am so thrilled.
A big thankyou to the two Toms, both great company on the river and freely giving of their wealth of knowledge.
Tom Hannon showed me the high water lie from which the fish was extracted and Tom Richards gave me great advice on modifying my spinning style and choice of lure. A big thank you to owner Barry for his endless encouragement.
Lastly, I am so grateful to the WUF for helping this Gwent boy back to his angling roots [first cast a fly for trout on the usk approx. 50 years ago]. Keep up the great work.

Hard day, nothing on the feeder lovely looking peg. Tried trotting for dace got one beautiful little fish about 6 oz. River starting to rise with more rain. Needed lots of juicy maggots which i didnt have with me. Thanks for the advice Don, next time will come prepared to target the dace and chub

Fished end of first pool, had 2 good chub and lost a barbel on the feeder & pellet, had a go on the stick float caught plenty of dace and chublets on hemp & caster,river looked perfect.

Fished only the morning in heavy persistent rain - caught one barbel on pellet.

Rod 1 - 2 Barbel 8 & 9lb.
Rod 2 - 1 Barbel 7lb.

10lbs hen. Slightly coloured. 2.5" Red, Green & Black tube.
Fast sinking line. Kipper Lodi. 18.00hrs

ROJ fished on Wed, 10th all day and Thursday, 11th in the afternoon. Lost a fish in Green Bank on Wednesday morning and another in Bathing pool on Thursday afternoon but had a 6 lb-er from Dolmeuddy, Llanstephan on Thursday morning. JL had a 10 lber from the Bathing Pool on Thursday morning. All on size 6 Cascades and sink tip. What a lovely beat!

Had 10 and lost 5 barbel on pellet feeder with pellet or boilie on hair. Feeding was sporadic through the day.

Good river level with strong flow, slight peat stain. Dull windless day. Good hatch about 1pm, Needle flies and Sedge. Rising fish choosy. Managed 4 grayling and 1 trout 1/2 lb. Best grayling 2lbs. This fish had a Small Gold Head Nymph size 16/18 attached to a few iches of line. All fish returned. I had to hold the fish in the current for at least ten minutes before it recovered. Lots of leaves to come down soon! I would be interested to know how long ago that grayling had been hooked.