Feedback & Reports

A lovely spring day - more lamb than lion today after a cold night in the campervan! Short bursts (10-12 minutes each) of furious fly activity, with March Browns in such intensity I have never seen before. Goodness, what a come-back this fly species is making on the Usk. Five good trout to 16 inches caught and returned. First visit to this beat. Very enjoyable.

5 Trout

A really good day. Sporadic hatches of LDOs and the odd flurry of March Browns. Fish rising very enthusiastically during hatches so catching on a dry fly (jingler) was easy. The size of fish caught was staggering. 3 fish of 1lb 13oz and one just over 2lb. Two more similar sized fish hooked and lost. Two otters busy fishing at the bottom of the beat, apparently unconcerned by my presence. 4 goosanders and one cormorant.
Pen y Fan covered in snow but weather was reasonably warm with little wind and some sun. Hatches were right on cue. Started at 11am and came to a full stop at 2.30pm.

4 Trout

Blank - lost a good fish pound and a quarter + in heavy water.

I fished the Ashford House beat with a friend today. Not too cold but quite windy at times. LDOs started showing at about 11am but the hatch never really got going and nothing came up for them. I tried spiders and nymphs to no avail. But then a lot of March Browns started to come off with a flurry of them about every 10 minutes. The trout nailed them but only in one pool it seemed. My friend tried other parts of the river where he could see the MBs but nothing rose. I rose 5 fish, catching one of about a pound. Long distance casts were needed to reach the rising fish, hence my poor hooking stats I think. A lovely day and great to get off the mark for the new season.

1 Trout

Caught 2 trout, one of 16" on dry CDC olive. Fly presentation was difficult against a blustery wind.
This is a lovely beat with bank access improvements recently undertaken. The fish were rising all day in much of the deeper water. Thank you for a great day.

2 Trout

Overcast and warm morning, heavy rain shower at lunchtime leaving A cooler afternoon. The only fish rising were in the lower reaches of the beat, and on mirror water, so very hard to get to them. The one successful take was using a size 12 Klink.

1 Trout

River low and clear making fishing quite challenging. Fish rising throughout the day enabled a full day of dry fly sport. 13 hard fighting trout caught, very much in peak condition with a good average size. Successful flies were CDC emergers, X-Caddis and CDC & Elkhair. Some sporadic hatches of small upwings were encountered. Quite a few sedge on the move also.

13 Trout

1 Trout

A few small fish rising, but they were too clever for me and my companion!

A few small fish rising but they were too clever for me and my companion!