Feedback & Reports

I've been very unlucky this season. Every time I fish there is a strong upstream wind... and so there was again today! It was rather cold, but there were still good hatches of fly including mayfly. The swifts were taking them from around my head at one point! My friend caught 3 reasonable trout, and I caught nothing... I don't know what is wrong with me... I hooked 7 and they all got off very quickly.

3 Trout

1 small brown trout caught on a dry fly. Many missed! No fish taken. Beautiful beat and a fantastic day out.

1 Trout

Very cold day, with easterly wind. We picked off the odd fish, as we worked our way up the beat, mostly on dries, then, in the early afternoon at the top run, suddenly substantial numbers of flies appeared on the water, including: olives, sedges, yellow May duns, and a few mayfly. There were fish rising every where, but surprisingly 'picky'. I lost a huge trout which took in 4-6 ins of water. Fly was a sz. 18 March Brown. The fish shot across the river in a cloud of spray! These are the moments that linger in your memory! However we managed to catch 14 trout, one of which was 2.5 lbs, another of 2 lbs, and several of the others were around 1.25 lbs. Many fish lost, but most caught were on dries. Very absorbing fishing!

14 Trout

Few mayfly around. Great hatch of ldo's & bwo's. Trout came up had cracking day with fish to 2.5lbs.

12 Trout

Lovely days fishing on this beautiful beat of the Usk although not many fish caught what we did catch were hard fighting and in good condition. We will be back to this beat.

2 Trout

Boy do you have to work hard to catch trout on this fast moving brook. I was pleased to get 3 little beauties to hand having 7 or 8 long releases throughout the day. No fish topping even though there was the occasional mayfly lifting off so every fish was taken on a ptn. The wagtails were filling their bellies on them and putting on a great show.
What I didn't expect to see was mink and not just one individual, as bold as brass slipping in and out of the water.
A lovely quite place to spend a day, many thanks to the Foundation.

3 Trout

T-shirt weather up in the hills. River a picture - clear with good flow. All types of fly hatching, olives, mays, various black bodied of different sizes. Some trout rising but seemed to be going for variety today. Anyway, they were rising to my para adams and olives bounced down the runs and fast water - eventually landed 15 and missed quite a few as well, mainly in the morning as a cool downstream breeze slowed things down after 2.30. All sizes from 6" to 12" but mostly very fit 10/11 inchers. Also a pleasant chat with the Yurt holidayers in the first field! What could be a better way to spend the day??

16 Trout

24 May Lower Langoed 13lbs cock to Charles Tweedie on Gold Willie Gunn (Other included in above form was a 3lb Shad)

1 Salmon, 2 Trout, 1 Other

Very difficult beat for casting with lots of overhanging trees. 8 trout to 9-10", 1 on para adams, rest on gold bead hares ear including a 12" grayling.

8 Trout, 1 Grayling

Weather warm, bright and sunny, the river still carrying just a hint of colour. I walked through the first field but failed to find a place to enter the river after that access improved, this whole beat looks like perfect dry fly flats of varying depth and flow, the wading is relatively easy.
No obvious hatch but I persevered with a dry fly and eventually a few small yellow up wings started to come off but by 2pm I'd managed to rise, miss and loose 10 fish but netted none of them!
A quick coffee break and back to the river. As I sat on the bank tying on a fly a fish rose just off the bank in inches of water right in front of me, I didn't even get up, just flicked my fly out and watched in shock as it was taken, I struck and found myself connected to a surprisingly large fish which when netted was at least 18 inches. No sooner had I released it another good fish rose just up from where I was now standing, I covered it and got an instant take from a very good fish which fought like a tiger resulting in a new PB at well over 2lb and much longer than my 18 inch net! The afternoon from then on was much more successful with 9 trout caught and returned. Thank you WUF for another great day fishing in beautiful surroundings.

9 Trout