Withthe fishing season now in full swing it is time to stock up on fishing flies at the hotel. Nick, who has fished the river Usk since he was a boy spent nearly a £1000 and the best part of a morning sorting out the new stock. He complained to me that they will insist [...]

Rods,  Lines & Waders. For salmon fishing at Gliffaes we recommend using a 15ft rod in most conditions down to a single handed rod in low water. For trout an 8½ to 9 foot rod with 4/5 wt line is perfect. Wading is essential at Gliffaes and the bottom of the river is slippery and [...]

As I look back over the last two weeks I cannot remember a year in the last fifteen that has produced such dense hatches of grannom, and, in addition, that huge fly that literally crawls out of the river, ‘the stonefly’ has been in evidence. The water has been relatively cold and the result has [...]

The 2010 fishing season has been open for a month now and I would  be lying if I said that it had got off to a good start. The very late spring and the cold weather through out most of March seems to have delayed the hatches of Olives and Grannoms and in late March [...]