Feedback & Reports

Hard fishing on the upper part of the Middle Escley beat. I fished the bottom half last week and just had to return. Great hatches but I didn't see a fish rising until I reached the pool by the pub at the end of the beat. I caught the two (small) wbt on a parachute Adams and missed a couple more.

2 Trout

Spent a great 4 hour session on this lovely little river. Many wild trout eager to oblige and plenty of mayfly coming off. Best fish was over 11". Will definitely fish this again next year.

11 Trout

A late afternoon session on this favourite beat produced 9 fish fairly rapidly, then all action ceased and despite the amazing amount of fly life on the river, the fish were nowhere to be found. Having decided to call it a day and head off for the Crown inn for some good beer and a fine evening meal, surprisingly caught one more trout on the last cast. Still a favourite beat!

10 Trout

Water running away a bit now but this beat has produced for me at this height before. Tried all the likely spots for this amount of water but could only find shad and trout.

3 Trout, 2 Other

Unfortunately I developed a migraine and had to retire hurt. Nil return.

7lbs spinning. Sea lice. No response to fly although water now perfect for it.

1 Salmon

This was my first time on the Usk. The weather was overcast when I arrived, the river looked in fine form but no fish were showing. I caught quite quickly on a gold head but quickly changed to a dry fly as by mid morning fish were taking flies off the surface. The fly life was spectacular at times with many different flies coming off including Mayflies. By lunch time the sun was shining, it was very bright and the fish stopped showing on the surface but I persisted with a Mayfly imitation as Mayflies were coming off in increasing numbers. I caught no more fish despite my best efforts but this was due to my inexperience rather then the beat as it obviously has plenty of trout as they were taking flies all over when I left...just not mine!
Will be back for another go before too long.

1 Trout

The sun came out around midday when I started fishing from the downstream limit. The river was alive with mayfly and swarms of smaller two tailed spinners (iron blues?), plus small and large birds, mostly unidentified but I thought one was an owl silently flying away. All fish caught on dry fly, mostly using one that bore some resemblance to a mayfly. I kept moving and fished almost the whole beat, which was a lot of wading! 8 wbt between 5 and 9 inches, and spooked countless risers.

8 Trout

Good days fishing on the Edw. Looked perfect for the dries, but very few rises. 2 trout on a Adams, 10 on PTN size 16. 5"-10".

12 Trout

River in good order, weather sunny but with a horrible downstream wind that made fishing awkward and probably kept flylife down. Not many fish showing but a salmon did leap a couple of times at the start of the large shingle. WBT & Grayling taken on deep nymphs and salmon parr on a spider.
Thanks to all at WUF for providing another great place to enjoy.

1 Trout, 3 Grayling, 1 Other