Feedback & Reports

4 brown 12-14oz on dry fly (parachute). River low & clear. sunny day, only fished till 6pm looking forward to returning to fish a full day asap. All fish returned.

Strong downstream wind again but some fish rising in the more sheltered spots. Grannom hatching in good numbers all day. 3 other people fishing the beat with the permission of the estate including a relative of one of the staff. This made for some pressure on the productive/sheltered spots.
VC - 5 - most on nymph - PT and Hares Ear, GB 3 on dries - Klink and CDC shuttlecock.

Overall thoughts

We chose to fish dries most of the time but given the amount of G. hatching the numbers of fish rising were quite small. It clearly seemed that if one was after numbers of fish then nymphing would have been more productive. It was great to see such large hatches. A very pleasant 4 days but it is noticeable that the interruptions from walkers/stick throwers/picknickers seems to be increasing year on year. Also it is a touch galling to find other fishing fairly limited beats with the owners permission. We were not expecting that 5 anglers would be fishing the Glan Usk beat given the 'premium' price of £70 for 2 of us.

A very pleasant day. Cloudy/mild. Good hatch of pale ephemera at lunchtime and a few large dark olives. Missed two on olive klnkhammer. Cauught and returned 4 around 1/2 ponnd mark on beaded olive nymph. Thanks to wuf for a very nice day.

2 trout largest 10" 2 grayling largest 12".
Caught on tape wing caddis #14 and starling (starling replaced with CDC) and peacock goldhead nymph #14. All returned. Missed strikes far more than I caught and lost a few one of which that was quite a bit larger than the others. The one that got away :)

Grannom in large qtys present throughout the day, never noticed any other surface fly activity. However looking under stones there was great variety and qty of insect life, not skilfull enough to note exact species, also a couple of bullheads. So maybe a streamer pattern for the deeper pools next time.

Very nice beat, easily accesible, would visit again.

Another good, but hard day on the Usk this spring. Two of us fished Cilwych from 9.30am until 5pm. Milder than last week, which helped. A few Grannom in the air all day, but fish not really interested. Sparodic hatches of LDO all day which brought the occasonal fish up from the start, but a sustained hatch or rise did not develop at any stage. The blustery wind was a problem, and put down hatches as soon as they started. We managed 8 trout between us, betwen 11 and 18 inches. Seven of these were caught by targeting rising fish on dries, the other was caught by searching the water with nymphs. Nice beat, if you do not mind difficult wading and casting.

A beautiful stretch of water with many interesting runs and pools. Unfortunately the strong cold downstream wind made fishing difficult and the fish uncooperative with only one rising fish found all day, despite walking the majority of the beat. Nothing caught this time but I will return when conditions are more favourable.

River very low and clear, very little hatching but occasional fish rising right in the shallows beside the bank. Very strong downstream wind made fishing to those fish very challenging indeed. Nothing caught. Encountered a lady fishing who said she had the owners permission to fish whenever she liked. Last year we met a man and grandson fishing who said the same thing.

Great stretch of river with plenty of water. Very intimate fishing so 6' 6" rod was perfect for combat fishing. Not many fish showing but managed to rise 4 to 10" with a size 16 LDO. Would be great stretch during a hatch.

Plenty of fish rising in the two pools in the upper section. Got four about 10 inches ona mixture of Adams and emergers, lost about the same again. Got another three on a hares ear klink on the fast run just below the church, again about 10 inches.

In the afternoon fished the tail of the fast run at the bottom of the beat. Got 6 very nice fish 12- 14 inches in about 90 minutes, on a klink with two nymphs, honours shared equally between the two nymphs and the Klink.

Great days fishing.

0 fish. Cant see how anyone has managed to get trout of this place. Small and over grown with junk in all the deep holes. Seen two small grayling in the shallows, and one trout rise in the one deep hole that looked fishy, that was too overgrown to cast in.

Poor days fishing on a poor looking venue, specially for the price.