Fishing & Holidays
These pages will provide you with all the information you require to access a variety of first class fishing on offer via the Foundation’s ‘Wye & Usk Passport’.
The Passport scheme began in 2003 and started to set up wild brown trout fisheries in the uplands of the Wye catchment, making available fishing that was not previously accessible to visiting anglers. Its great success has enabled us to include salmon, trout, grayling and coarse fishing on the upper Wye, and the salmon and trout fishing on the Usk and its tributaries.
In 2006 we extended the Passport to the main river Wye from Hay downstream. Along with some classic salmon beats, this part of the Wye also offers some of the best river coarse fishing in the UK for barbel, chub and pike. In addition, the tributaries Lugg, Arrow and Monnow have also become available, increasing the number of trout, grayling and coarse beats.
Also included in this section is all the
information you will need for your visit to the Wye or Usk, such as
our list of recommended accommodation, pubs, tackle shops, guides/instructors
and information of the fishing available. For information on river
height and colour, a series of webcams have been set up, the images
from which can be seen in the River
Info section. To make fishing
Wye and Usk even easier, the Foundation has
set up some fishing packages. For salmon anglers, we have a
plan to overcome the difficulties of never being at the right end of
the river - The Salmon Visa.
We look forward to welcoming you to these two wonderful rivers.
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