Feedback & Reports

Wet fly, full day, Welsh rain on and off throughout. Great beat with good access from the car park at the caravan place. Wading/river access is good when the river's relatively low. Largest fish caught approx 0.6lb and three other smaller fish. Lost another that felt larger.

4 Trout

Fantastic day on this beautiful beat. Warm and overcast provided the opportunity to start and fish the full day on dries. Starting of with the klink n dink which produced a few fish to the Nymph, but within a hour the fish were onto the dry. Klinkhammer special in #14 being the fly used all day. Had to change the fly half way through the day as the fish destroyed the first one. Not a great deal of fish seen rising, but they were pretty keen to rise to my fly if it went over then. A lot of caddis on the water with a few bwos. Fished to about 5pm and by then I was,knackered but extremely satisfied with the day. I said 30 grayling, but I stopped counting at twenty and that was a 1pm. Nothing of any great size biggest being grayling of 15" and brown of 14".

5 Trout, 30 Grayling, 1 Other

River was low and very clear. Had 2 nice grayling fishing nymphs, some small trout seen rising but they were very shy and spooky in the clear water. Only managed one small trout
No sign of any salmon. Saw a mink at the top of the stretch.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

Warm and overcast day with the river running low. Started fishing at 0800 with very little fly life. Started with upstream nymphs fished deep that produced 2 small trout in the first 10 mins. A few grayling came to the net over the next couple of hrs then a hatch of yellow sally stoneflies got the fish looking up and they were pretty keen to take my pale olive emerger pattern. Fished till about 16:00 then called it a day. No fish of great size to mention predominantly from 8" to 15". Fantastic day.

4 Trout, 14 Grayling

All fish on nymph. Very little rising despite consistent hatches throughout the day. No evening rise although plenty of spinners falling. Lovely water, but low.

7 Trout, 1 Grayling

If I'm going to blank (which I did), there's no prettier stretch of river to do it on that this! Will be back.

The river conditions were slightly high and running quite fast. Not really suitable for dry fly fishing. Only caught the one trout.

1 Trout

This was something of a day to forget really. I set off very early and was only a mile or two from home when my car alerted me to an air temperature below 3 degrees. I arrived at the beat before seven and was on the water by half past. But it was a cold start with no fish showing. Around 10.00 I finally encountered a rising fish. On my first cast to it the braided loop parted company with my fly line and I had to trudge back to the car to repair it. By the time I'd made my way back, said fish was still there, still feeding, and willing to take a weighted nymph. A lovely fish of around a pound who lifted my spirits and gave me confidence things were about to get better. They weren't. Nothing all afternoon and into the early evening as the wind increased and a few showers rolled in. I was about to head home when I noticed swallows skimming the shallow water at the top of the beat suggesting some sort of sustained hatch at last. It yielded two more trout before the wind got too gusty and unpredictable to make the fishing comfortable and safe. Headed home around 7.30 after a day that promised much and yielded much less. Still, it is a truly beautiful beat. Next time they'll be rising and taking all day!

3 Trout

Great beat, very good access to all sections of the river.

Until today 3 salmon hooked elsewhere and 3 salmon lost. Where better to land my first for the season than the ash tree pool Craig Llyn.A short, fat, fresh run beauty about 10 lbs. The river was slightly high and peaty from the dams, so fished a heavy all yellow pencil fly on very fast sink line cast square across and fished fast through the white water. Looks promising up here given some more wet stuff. Slipped in as usual but not too deep this time.

1 Salmon