Feedback & Reports

We return here every year and always have a good day. Today was no disappointment, though a little harder than usual with slightly higher water than we're used to in June/July. We had two good fish from the rocks at the top of the beat: me one of about 1.5lbs on a Sawyers and my friend a very nice 3lb wbt on a GRHE. Other than these two, the other three were 8" to 6" on a variety of other nymphs.

5 Trout

3 Trout

Two freshish cock fish 12/13lb on fly - one each.

2 Salmon, 6 Trout

A day which promised much with the river in fine condition, some warmth in the air and not too bright. Sadly, through lack of skill or some other reason unknown we caught one fish between us! I have fished the Wye 3 times in the last two years and found on each occasion that the best technique was to fish across and down with a team of small dark flies. The previous two visits, this method has been highly successful and so we began the day employing this tactic. We tried most methods throughout the day but only had any success using small dark flies. We lost several fish and had a lot of 'plucks' too but only landed one fish. This stretch of the river is lovely and the middle section is easy to access and fish. The rest of the beat is more suited to salmon anglers I feel but nonetheless we had a lovely day in beuatiful surroundings.

1 Trout

This was a frustrating and ultimately disappointing day. There's no doubt this is a lovely beat and it has fished very well for one of us in the past. But we arrived to see that recent rain had lifted the river marginally but brought a pretty dirty wash down with it. We also both noticed how difficult it was to get a decent footing as there seemed to be a layer of very slippery silt everywhere - it needs a bigger flush through to clear some of this. Very few fish showing all day: those few that did rise only seemed to show once before disappearing for the rest of the day. Only managed five small trout between us. Still, it's much better to be on the river than not!

5 Trout

The water was low and clear, and a stiff breeze (which changed direction throughout the day) made casting a challenge. We saw flies coming off throughout the day, but nothing was rising to take them so we persevered with nymphs and spider patterns, managing to take fish throughout the length of the beat, and primarily from the faster runs. Small bead-heads and spider patterns proved most successful (PTNs, Snipe and Purple, GRHE, and Greenwells all tempted fish). We had a great day out, and will certainly return to this stretch.

13 Trout, 5 Grayling

The river was a good height and clear but the bright sunny day made fish hard to find. Never the less we managed a few small WBT and a lovely 12" oos grayling using various nymph paterns (olive and greens seeming to be most popular).
Fished better in the morning and became slower as the day moved to evening. A few mayfly about but not much rising for them. We lost a couple of better fish, which managed to spit the hook after a brief battle and brought salmon par to hand throughout the day.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

French leeder nymph fishing, summer level bright sunshine. No fish taken.

1 Trout, 4 Grayling

Very sunny, French leader. Excellent river to fish and great location.

1 Grayling

Water pretty clear and just under a foot at Llanstephan. A trickle of flies coming off throughout the day including the odd try mayfly. There were plenty of Yellow Mays that the trout, as always, completely ignored. In fact there were very few rising fish hence it was on bead-head nymphs that I caught the five fish. I had lots of taps and tugs so fishing was interesting all day. Best fish was a trout of about 15". All fish returned.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling