Feedback & Reports

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

River in flood. Very high and fast.

Very disappointed as the map of the beat that showed a footpath down the entire length of the beat did not represent reality at all, it was a heavily wooded beat for 100%, and with the river as high as it was we tried to access the river from both parking spots, gave up and went fishing at Builth Town for a tenner !!!

This beat description needs to highlight that it runs through woodland and the only way to access this beat is by wading when the river is 1metre or lower

WUF note: Thank you for the feedback, we will look into the access at Doldowlod and review the maps where necessary.

Fish taken on nymphs at the bottom of the beat at the start of the day. Over night rain started to colour the water and the fish went off the feed. Got to try out a new nymphing rod with different leader set ups so it wasn't a wasted day.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

Made welcome by house near sawmill and pointed in right direction . Quite tricky wading though very beautiful on this bright November day. Excellent lunch eagles pub in Rhayader and mesmerising visit to red kite feeding station.

Water low and crystal clear. fished the bottom section of the beat and caught 6 grayling ( 2 at 15" ) in the first hour. i then fished the gutter and pools along the entire length and caught nothing !. it was`nt until i got to the top pool at about 3pm when i caught 2 more grayling and 2 oos trout. all fish came to suspended nymphs.

2 Trout, 8 Grayling

River rose during day, making fishing difficult, beautiful day on river though

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

Beautiful day out, 5 Graylings caught!

5 Grayling

Best grayling approx. 1.5 lbs and a surprise brown at 2lbs. All fish returned

1 Trout, 7 Grayling

Second time I’ve visited this beat, the first time I was disappointed as the beat map shows access all the way down one bank almost all the way back to Newbridge-on-Wye however this isn’t the case as the path ends at a house a short way into the woods and accessing the river is almost impossible.
This time I crossed the footbridge and found the river much more accessible. Today though the river was very powerful after recent rain and still carrying a little colour, wading was quite difficult and finding feeding fish even more so. I eventually found a few fish rising very intermittently in a slack behind a fallen tree, I managed to rise one to a dry fly, which frustratingly I missed, this turned out to be the only chance I was to get. The wind started to get quite wild blowing leaves into the river by the thousand so gave up and went for a warm and a pint instead.