Feedback & Reports

I love this beat. It is very beautiful, with fabulous pools and trenches for salmon to hide in. A pity then there are next to no fish, not even trout. Even taking my ineptness into account, when wading, you would disturb fish if they were there. I did not. I have caught poachers before now, and there was evidence of them again - empty beer bottles, rubbish etc. Then there were bathers! Yes, 24 people I counted, swimming, sun bathing and even one group going up the river in a rubber duck dingy.

Fantastic evening fishing. Trout came on for that magic 2 hours, 8pm to 10pm. caught on black klinks, deer hair emergers & pheasant tails. Couple of good fish at 12-14inches, most at 10inches or smaller.

10 Trout

Fished all day below the Orchard. Air really cold until the sun got up then it got too hot and bright. A few bites and one chub until the sun was up then nothing, bites dried up completely. Could see massive chub against far bank but couldn't temp them.
Willow tree split and fell into field early that morning which meant the the cattle were crowded around BB's swim until all the leaves were cleared off. A surprisingly disappointing day from a stretch we thought would fish well in bright sunshine as it has the deeper swims! Better luck next year.

1 Chub

Another hot sunny day on a low river. Based upon our last 2 days we didn't expect much, but 3 out of the 4 of us had some barbel. We needed to use fine lines and small hooks but despite losing the odd fish had some good sport.

21 Barbel, 1 Chub

Water very low and clear and temperatures scorching. Still managed to find some fish in the middle of the river on groundbait feeder and pellet. Best fish just short of 10lb but average very good about 7-8lb. Boats very much a problem but some good sights!!!

8 Barbel, 1 Chub

Both fish returned

2 Trout

A very long walk on a hot day, not many swims until the end of the beat, fished near the Pumping Station, 3 chub early before leaving at lunch time nice beat.

3 Chub

Lovely summers evening, fished from 6:30pm to 9:45pm. Hot sun all day so decided to have a go in the evening only. Lots of rise to midges and other flies that I could not identify so fished a small black Klinkhammer and got 5 good takes. Landed and safely returned 2 of them, WBT to 10 inches, lost 3 more, one a beauty at approx 2lb.
River quite muddy and low and it was a struggle to get easy access to the water but still a fine way to spend a summers evening.

2 Trout

10 barbel to 8lb 7oz caught. Similar pattern to when we fished the stretch 2 days before where fish were caught early and late in the day. All fish were caught on pellet.
In the afternoon I found two other anglers fishing and when challenged they said that they were waiting to buy a day ticket. They were politely asked to leave and did without any problem.

10 Barbel

We have now fished 4 of the Wye & Usk venues, all of them in stunning surroundings. Unfortunately the weather was against us being the hottest week this year and the river its lowest for 4 years. We all had our 1st blank today, it was rock hard.
But we will be back.