Feedback & Reports

I did much better than expected on a very hot sunny day (24 degrees) with a nasty upstream wind in the afternoon hampering decent presentation. Water temperature was 17 degrees - the main stem of the Wye (Ddoll Farm) had been dropping rapidly over the previous 48 hours but compensation water from the Elan had topped this part of the river up from Saturday evening onwards. Fresh compensation water can be bad news but maybe 36 hours or more had been just long enough to let fish settle down again. There was little fly until a few sedges and olives appeared in the afternoon. In the morning, only a few trout rose but in the afternoon the grayling were looking up as well. Almost all fish were caught on a small HE emerger, with a heavy flashback PTN also nailing a couple whilst bugging in the morning. Most of the trout were caught in the morning and most of the grayling in the afternoon with about half being non-rising ladies moving to the emerger. Trout ranged from 9-12" and grayling from 9-14" (quite a few 12, 13 and 14", ~ 1.25lb, fish on this day). Hard!!

12 Trout, 22 Grayling

No fish but that will be down to my lack of fly fishing experience. Great location.

In spite of the low river and the nasty down stream wind, the Grayling were up for it today. Second thoughts, make that "down for it" - with most of the fish taken on a tungsten nymph. Some good fish, a handful at 12" plus, with the majority in the 10-12" bracket. One Trout at 14", others smaller. On one of the few occasions when the wind dropped, I switched to a dry; and caught half a dozen Salmon Parr in rapid order. Tres bonne

6 Trout, 20 Grayling, 6 Other

Lovely day but no fish !!

Three droppers, weighted nymph on the bottom dropper, and spiders on the other two worked very well. Lots of fish taking, and a superb day. Lovely water height also.

16 Trout, 5 Grayling

Very windy managed a couple of small grayling & 1 trout, lost a much bigger fish which snapped 4lb tippett, all on dry fly.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

Hot and very bright,caught fish early in the day and later in abernant stream when in partial shade. 8-10in trout to downstream wets and salmon parr to duo in Edw pool. Beautiful beat, always a pleasure.

3 Trout, 3 Other

Persevered with dry patterns through the morning, but very little fly life and nothing seen to rise. Nymphs and spider patterns fished upstream proved more successful; with a very nice grayling of around 2lbs taken from the deeper water through the middle of the beat. The water was pushing through at quite a pace, so weighted patterns were needed to get down in the current :- a bead-headed PTN on the point and a Greenwells spider on a dropper attracted most attention.
Some serious bank clearance towards the top of the beat has made access much easier, so many thanks!!

2 Trout, 5 Grayling

Conditions very good. Caught 8 grayling on dry fly and one trout also on dry.

1 Trout, 8 Grayling

River level just under a foot at Llanstephan. Slightly overcast day at about 18 degrees. Only a very few rising fish when I arrived at 1pm so went with team of three wets with a bead head GRHE on point. Made some changes during the day and found something with red in it tempted the fish. Plenty of salmon parr around especially in the shallow riffles. Best of the grayling was about 14" but hooked and lost a fish that looked much larger. There was a substantial hatch of flies about 4-5pm that stimulated a few fish to come up and play but nothing spectacular.

5 Grayling, 12 Other