Feedback & Reports

3 small grayling of approximatively 4 ounces each caught on small nymphs (pheasant tails). 5 good sized grayling ranging between 12 and 15 onces caught on Czech Nymph and Shrimps. Very nice beat but I found some of the parts towards the end of the upstream limit impossible to access.

3 x grayling all 14 inch; 1 x out of season trout 8 inches. Warm earlier with some (autumn-sized) large dark olives creating a little top of the water activity in order to take a few on spiders. Then cold wind after lunch and fish seemed to switch off. Lost a couple on nymphs.

Beautiful spot. Ian Bonny as helpful as ever.

Fished Beat 3 and had chub below and alongside the island to 4lb on and off all day. Small pellets on the hook and in the feeder did the trick.

Fantastic place and great fishing.

Excellent days fishing on a lovely stretch of river.
Caught 14+ grayling up to 1.5lb with several around the pound mark, all caught on small nymphs fished near the bottom.

Neither of us had visited the beat before and our first impressions were favourable – what a lovely spot. The river was at 10” and quite clear although there were lots of floating leaves about but otherwise a grey, windless cold day. In the morning we concentrated in the shallow gravelly glides and managed 5 fish between us – grayling to 1lb plus on small nymphs. After an early lunch we finally got some sun amongst broken cloud and the temperature rose noticeably and, so did the fish I am glad to say. Grayling were taking tiny midges/aphids with relish and we quickly managed another 20 or so fish – tiny GRHE. Unfortunately when the sun went down so did the fish and we reverted to nymph again to take a few more before a 5pm finish.
A lovely day in all and the rising fish really made it – there were lots of tiny flies – impossible to imitate – but the grayling were not too picky thankfully. We would heartily recommend this beat.

3 x grayling 11 - 14 inches. A hard, cold morning with the water full of leaves - a few on dries when an olive hatch began after lunch.

River condtions were very low and clear, with clear blue sky for most of the day. I caught many small grayling but foung it hard to locate the bigger fish. I had one fish of 11 inches and one of 14 inches on a small olive nymph. I also lost four reasonable sied grayling. A pleasant days fishing.

18 Grayling, 2 trout, all taken on small goldhead nymphs, all returned. Great days fishing. Many thanks.

Two barbel caught at the top of the beat around mid morning, one 5lb and the other 5lb 2ozs. Both caught on pellet. In the afternoon on the advice of Colin Richardson (the ghillie) we moved to the far end of the beat at the end of the island and had 3 chub - 3lb, 3lb 5ozs & 4lb 4ozs, all on pellet. The river was slightly up & the weather was overcast. We had a lovely day and we will come back for another go next year. Many thanks to Colin for pointing me in the right direction as he helped me catch my first ever barbel, may there be many more. Great service from the people at the Wye and Usk Foundation, I would recomend them to any angler.

8 grayling up to 2lbs. Rising well in one pool, most caught on small dry fly, a couple on small nymphs.