Feedback & Reports

The day was cold. All catch and release. 4 trouts about 10" very nice. Allyson from the Foundation advised me not to go to another beat due to a three day festival and she showed me other beats to select. Thank you Allyson.
All trout were caught with dry fly elk hair. The fishing day finished when I fell in to the river. Very nice day indeed.

4 Trout

Great beat. some lovely wbt all in the pound to a pound and half range and all returned safely. No rise at all. All fish came to weighted nymphs. I will fish this beat again

5 Trout, 2 Grayling

A lovely beat this, especially on a fine sunny day. The water clarity was like that of a chalk stream with fish clearly visible moving around the largest pool, little or no hatch of fly. No trout caught but did catch a massive grayling on a hares ear. The fish was just about as long as my forearm!

1 Grayling

Nil return.

This should have been a wash-off, with Craig Llyn falls roaring so loud you could hear them from the A470, and the river two feet over its banks. But I was tired of driving, and the eddies & creases in the margins looked fishable, so I cracked on. Blank all morning. Then the sun came out round 12 noon, and I found a pod of grayling, sheltering from the torrent, in the side channel behind the island. Two decent fish in two casts (one of around 40cm, maybe two and a half pounds): heavy pink shrimp Czech nymph. A couple more takes in the next half hour, but no fish on. Then they were gone, and that was it for the day. And that was more than enough.

2 Grayling

River low and clear, just one grayling about 40cm, and one trout. No other offers, struggled on quite a mild day on what felt like a good fishing day. A few olives trickled off between 11-2. Really quite tough and a tad disappointing.
Watched a number of salmon chasing each other around and spawning which was nice to see.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

A pleasant day out on the river although not an easy one.
One Grayling on a heavy nymph, and a couple of missed takes. There was a brief hatch of Pale Waterys and the Grayling did come up, sadly we didn't get the bonus of a fish on a dry fly in December.

1 Grayling

River had dropped considerably since our last visit a few weeks earlier, and was gin clear. My guru fishing partner caught one nice grayling around a pound and a half but it was tough going with no signs of any fish around whatsoever (apart from one leap from quite a large salmon in the shallows which caught us by surprise). Lovely day out on this great stretch of the upper Wye, thanks very much!

1 Grayling

Conditions perfect for this time of year, but fish hard to find. Good sized OBT taken within the first few cast to heavy nymph. No other fish taken until early afternoon then a hatch of BWO happened and I had 4 Grayling to the dry.

1 Trout, 4 Grayling

Absolutely stunning surroundings, lovely stretch of water, but the fish didn't cooperate. We shall return. Note for the beat details - parking at the caravan site is not 'on a raised grass area' , but in a designated area next to the wooden building by the entrance gate leading to the river.