Feedback & Reports

My dear wife woke me at 4.30am and got me to the riverbank in time to cast a fly by 5am! Unfortunately we were greeted by a murky, heavily algae stained and very warm river Wye. However, we still enjoyed a beautiful morning with lots of Salmon cartwheeling about and one even generously snatched at my fly but nothing took hold properly. The opposite rods on Cadora were spinning away by 8am and we stopped to enjoy the scenery and a cooked breakfast on the bank but no champagne. We carried on till 10am fishing hard with fly and spinners and finally the opposition caught one on a flying C. We went off to enjoy the glorious sunshine elsewhere and returned at 6pm to fish the Alders pool and wonderful Cadora run once again. The opposition were now filming and still honorably casting away with the flying C's! Despite our best efforts the Salmon were not interested other than trying to jump out of the hot soupy muck and we left at 9.30pm by which time the Cadora pool was filled right across to the stream on the opposite side with a scummy foam! An interesting and short beat which requires some application to work the fly other than Cadora run and some major holding spots more easily fished with spinner. Loads of fish showing and wonderful scenery but not a good day for catching fish in that water, although the opposite side did manage one - such is Salmon fishing!

River was a little coloured in the morning so spinning the better option. Saw a number of fresh run fish, one around the 15lb mark.

12 lbs on FC.

1 Salmon

12 lbs to Emlyn Davies FC

1 Salmon

2 salmon first thing in the morning, just after the tide came in, never had a touch for rest of the day,

2 Salmon

12 lbs fly, 6 lbs and 10 lbs F.C. A fair run of 2SW fish raced through late morning off the high tide

3 Salmon

Two more p.m. 15 lbs fly, 11 lbs spinning. Nearly like the old days. Should be some fun upriver for someone over the next few days.

2 Salmon

6lbs fish on F.C.

1 Salmon

8 lbs Cadora Backs to M.H. and 17.5 lbs (weighed in net) to Robin Stewart on Redbrook ; both taken spinning. Water levels on these beats still too heavy ideally for fly

2 Salmon

No fish seen or caught, was great to meet Maurice and wife, lovely people with great stories, could have listened all day!