Feedback & Reports

Excellent conditions and weather, trotting maggots and fly fishing. Both methods successful, best fish was a grayling of 2lb 6ozs. Contact numbers very helpful, gave us great advice, phoned a river report on the morning of our visit and met us at the parking spot. Perfect! Thank you, will visit again.

2 Trout, 5 Grayling

Our first trip to the river of 2014 thanks to the dire conditions since December. 13 fish to the net between the three of us and we just love this beat.
Conditions weren't quite the best but after starving ourselves of fishing we jumped at the chance thanks to the break in the weather.
A great day with great fishing buddies and on a great river.

6 Trout, 7 Grayling

Struggled with the leaves today, no fish, just a good day off work!

Two small grayling in the morning,and two 16" grayling about 3pm on a grhe goldhead, water was crystal clear. Also three salmon seen.

4 Grayling

The Irfon was very low and clear (around 0.24m on the Cilmery gauge) and the weather was unseasonably mild for this time of year (hovering around 10 C). I had decided to fish long trotting with maggots, starting in the pool just upstream of the church and below the ford. I couldn't tempt anything here so I moved up through the copse and fished the glide in the meadow above. It was around 1pm by this time and a few fish were rising to large terrestrials that were blowing in off the field. I decreased the float depth and switched to a single maggot and this immediately sparked short-term interest from the grayling,catching one at 14" and another at 17" (a thick-set fish estimated at 1.5-1.75lb).
Walking back to the car I had a last ditch attempt below the church in the glide above the riffles. There were a few small fish rising and was pleased to see that, when I caught one, they were grayling parr - a good indicator for the health of the river.
I noticed on the joining instructions that the new owner is looking for feedback on improving access. My only comments would be to improve the hard standing for the parking areas, and to see if anything could be done to by-pass the boggy part of the path mid-way through the copse. Other than that, access is excellent here.

3 Grayling

3 Grayling

Slow in the morning, picked up midday, all grayling hard on the bottom, most pools and runs had grayling of about 10" to 15".

6 Grayling

A lovely day, fished from 9.30 a.m. until 3.30 p.m. Cloudy, warm and still. River gin clear at 0.42m on the Cilmery guage. So we started full of expectation! However, we only managed to catch one OS trout of about 1.25lb and a grayling of about 14" on bugs, and two grayling (14 and 17") on a small dark olive Ducks Dun while a few fish rose to a sprinkle of hatching olives between 1 and 2 p.m. Saw five salmon (8-10lb?) and one very healthy looking mink. A perplexing day - where were the ladies?

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

Seemed like a perfect day, overcast, not too cold, no rain or wind. Used a number of methods, NZ, single nymph, lots of different dressings and depths....did not catch a thing, neither did my mate.
However, saw 3 5-8lb salmon leaping about out of the water, not sure what they were going for, but maybe they had better luck than me.
This stretch of the Irfon is beautiful and full of potential but alas, not today.

6 x grayling 14-16 inches, 4 x out of season trout 10-16 inches, long trotting. Bright sunshine, but the air temperature was rather less than we had been promised; it was minus 4 when I arrived and rod ring icing continued to hamper fishing until midday. Finally struggled up to 2 degrees by late afternoon, with shaded areas still frozen. Grayling were spread out in individual lies rather than shoaled up.

6 Grayling