Feedback & Reports

Absolutely delighted with the return of these three beats on the Irfon at Llangamarch ! Fished them regularly when belonging to The Cammarch hotel, purchasing my ticket and submitting my return in the lobby !
Many thanks to the management team at Serenity House for getting them back on the passport.
4 WBT to 1 1/2 lb on iron blue / Adam’s. All returned with much appreciation. An emotional day .

4 Trout

Trotting 3bb stick float with red maggot. 11 grayling to 18 inches and 5 trout to 18 inches.

5 Trout, 11 Grayling

6 Grayling caught using Czech and New Zealand nymphing. 2 around 16" and the rest in the 10-12" range. 2 fish lost from the hook and lots of missed takes. One fish was taken on a pheasant tail nymph all the rest to shrimp patterns. The river was a bit coloured but otherwise perfect.

6 Grayling

No catches, appalling weather, called it a day after an hour on the upper stretch. Access to river very difficult at point instructed and due to overgrown brambles it is also very difficult to walk along the beat between pools. Is there another place to access?

Great stretch of river this. Though the trout were more obliging than the grayling. Three grayling, the largest of which was easily over 2lb, all caught from different swims. The trout were all in the 1 1/2 - 2 1/2lb range. Never had a catch of such large trout. Moved swims after catching a couple of trout in the same spot, seems they were shoaled up. Will be back if the weather warms up a bit.

6 Trout, 3 Grayling

Decided to use an earlier wash off for a pre -Christmas session, before it rains again over the next few days! River pushing through though, albeit dropping, and much higher at 0.69m, than the level I usually fish the Irfon when bugging or fly fishing, so decided to trot some maggots instead. Not surprisingly, the fish were not in the places where I usually find them on this beat! River a bit coloured until midday then clear. Found 13 obliging grayling and one OOS trout. As usual this year, most fish were of 10-11" with a few better fish of 13-14". Kingfishers and dippers for company and, unfortunately, a cormorant early on.

1 Trout, 13 Grayling

Arrived at 8am following a 3 hour drive, greeted with a temperature of -4. Cooked up some bacon rolls and headed down to the river. This is a really beautiful setting which added to the excitement. My second ever quest for grayling, last time I had 2 so I just wanted to better that. Tactics for the day would be trotting with the centrepin on a light action rod. I arrived at the first tempting spot (having waders would've made a lot more of the stretch accessible for me and will be my next investment) as I was setting up I started feeding some maggots, and first run through I was straight into a grayling, a nice fish getting towards 1lb and already I had a new personal best. Had 3 more small grayling and then the sun came through the clouds and it went quiet. I left my gear and had a walk down the stretch and found another tempting spot. I walked back for my gear, but as the sun had gone in I thought I'd have another try before I moved, and a great decision it turned out to be. Started catching instantly and then lost a couple of fish, 1 looked to be approaching 2lbs so I was gutted that the hook pulled by the net. Next run through I was into another good fish, and slipped the net under a huge grayling, approaching 3lbs. I couldn't have been happier. That swim went dead so I headed down the the other spot, and caught a small trout straight away. After stealing feeding, I managed to interest some grayling and had a number of fish, a couple well over 1lb. That went quiet so for the last hour I headed back to my original spot, had a few more small grayling, a 2lb trout and the last run through had another big grayling at 2lbs. Over the moon with my return. All fish put up a really good account of themselves, seen beautiful pink salmon jumping, had a robin for company all day and all of the dog walkers on the far bank were very pleasant. An all round perfect day, couldn't have wished for more. Can't wait for my next outing!

2 Trout, 16 Grayling

10.00am to 15.45pm, 18 grayling mostly 10 to 12 in but one male at 16inch, 3 oos WBT one at 19inch. Pin and Trotting red/white maggots on soft action 10ft old kevlar rod that allowed me to net all fish hooked, that's a first for grayling fishing for me.
WHOEVER GOT TROTTING ARRANGED ON THIS BEAT DESERVES A MEDAL! Spoilt for choice with plenty of variety and depth and relatively easy wading.
Dipper sat on rock 20 yds upstream, sparrow hawk comes upstream under my rod and hits dipper, big splash, dipper flies off and sparrow hawk in stream, got it in my landing net to the bank where it sat on branch drying out for half-hour then flapped off.
I will return to this beat next winter.

3 Trout, 18 Grayling

12 x grayling 10-16 inches, 11 x out of season trout 6-15 inches, long trotting. Gauge watching is getting to be a nerve racking business. Dry for a couple of days now and the Irfon slowly dropping off, nice and clear. That's looking hopeful. But then about 6 hours of moderate rain during the night before fishing, ending around dawn. Would this bring the Irfon up into a spike of muddy high water, or would it be absorbed? I went anyway, and the river continued to run down (around 0.65 at Cilmery) and remained clear. Another dark day with odd showers, warm and with an upstream wind, which is the right kind for float fishing. In fact about 2 in the afternoon there was a concerted rise to dark olives for about half an hour, with fish coming up right next to me. Oh for a dry fly; they didn't want maggots at that moment! As I had been lazy and left the fly rod in the car, I missed out on this opportunity. There are times when the fly rod will beat trotting hands down and I'm sure this would have been one of them.

12 Grayling

Nice day on the Irfon. River a bit high but running clear, still proved difficult to find the fish. Only one small grayling caught on a goldhead nymph. One larger fish lost as well.

1 Grayling