Gwent Angling Society Open Day 2023
Gwent Angling Society Open Day 2023 Following on from the success of last year’s Open Day event, we are excited to announce the launch of this year’s Gwent Angling Society Open Day. Last year’s event was a truly wonderful day for members …
Casting With Ceri Jones – Episode 35 – River Entomology with Mark Roberts
Our very own Mark Roberts was once again invited onto the Casting with Ceri Jones podcast, this time discussing the world of river entomology, trout feeding patterns, and covering the categories, life cycles, and rise forms that these invertebrates might cause a …
Key Invertebrate Species for the Usk and Wye Catchments
An article by Dave Collins. The list below is not intended to be comprehensive, and comments made are deliberately brief and for guidance only. Emergence patterns are generalised, can change according to seasonal weather conditions and can be earlier, later or more …
Know Your Fish Food – Part 5 – Yellow May Dun (Heptagenia Sulphurea)
There was a time where I wouldn’t have thought of using a pattern to imitate this fly. However how times have changed. This fly has become very important to the fish of the River Usk particularly since the lack of March Browns …
Know Your Fish Food – Part 4 – Olive Upright (Rhithrogena Semiclorata)
A very important food source for both trout and grayling on the Rivers Usk and Wye. This insect is a very important food source for the River Usk and Wye as it arrives at the end of the Grannom and March Brown …
Know Your Fish Food – Part 3 – Iron Blue (Baetis Pumilis)
This is the one fly that likes the cold and will hatch in the colder days of spring from lunchtime to early evening during April and May depending on the weather. It can then reappear in the Autumn. Easily recognised as they …
Know Your Fish Food – Part 2 – Large Dark Olive (Baetis Rhodani)
One of the first flies to show on the river in any numbers and an important food source for both trout and grayling. All the photographs sen below show both male and female insects at differing times of their life cycle and …
Michael Wade – A Man of the River
There are a number of people that we meet or hear of that have a profound effect on the rivers we fish and often they go unseen or unrecognised for the work that they do. One such man is the late Dr …
Know Your Fish Food – Part 1 – March Brown (Rhithrogena germanica)
This article has been put together with the kindness and generosity of the family of the late Michael Wade. I should explain that Michael was a GP in Risca and was interested in the insects and fly life that trout feed upon in …
Duck Dun Patterns
Dave Collins gives his reasons for using this pattern. Whilst I first fly-fished back in the mid-sixties, I didn’t really get back to fly fishing regularly until the late nineties and didn’t tie my first fly until 2001. By then, I had …
