Feedback & Reports

Fished the river from Abercanaid up. River was gin clear but opted for Klink and dink to start off with in some fast runs. Later in the day a good hatch of ldo's came on and switched to my ldo pattern. Managed to catch some great fish from 1lb up to 4lb plus. Just wish that I could post photo's on here.

Fished the Taff from Rhydycar up this morning for a couple of hours. River had dropped from the recent rain but still pushing a bit. Fished a team of nymphs up river with a french leader and managed to pick off a dozen or so trout. All trout ranging from 1/2lb up to 1 1/2lb.

12 Trout

Nil caught, low and clear water.

Found it hard to find the lower beats, spent most of the morning exploring various housing and industrial estates, when asking for directions I could not associate the welsh names spoken with the map supplied (probably because I'm English) either that or came across a railway line barring me from the river. In the end I drove to the Pontsticill reservoir and found a MAA sign. Fished upstream to the wier but saw no fish.

If anyone wishing to fish MTAA/merthyr Tydfil angling association stretches of the upper river Taff and would like information on access points to the river and how the river is fishing please feel free to email me on daniel.1986@live.co.uk

Managed another couple of hours on the upper taff/MTAA waters today. Did not get onto the water til gone 14:00 but there was a good couple of ldo' and brook dunns/March browns on the water with a couple of fish feeding in a couple of runs despite it being late in the day for so early on in the season. Managed a dozen fish up to 2 1/2lb on nymphs and dry.

12 Trout

Fished the upper Taff from Quakers Yard up today. Water had dropped a little over night and despite the cold downstream wind all day I managed to catch trout up to 1 1/2lb as well as loosing a much larger fish 3lb plus on both dries and nymphs.

Despite the snow melt and river rising in the early hours in the morning the upper Taff fished really well for opening day. Started off on the bugs in the deep/fast runs and when there was a prolific hatch of march browns and ldo's (more March browns than ldo's) the fish were looking up (eventually). Managed a dozen or so fish with 5 fish being over 2lb and two maybe bigger. Hard to say as I do not take a weighing net with me.

12 Trout

Fished the river for the last time in the trout season yesterday. Started off on the lower river (Pontypridd) with very little success. Only managed 1 small trout and a couple of grayling. Moved up river to MTAA waters and managed over 2 dozen fish ranging between 1/2lb up to 2 1/2lb on dries and nymphs. Just love fishing the upper Taff at the back end of the season.

25 Trout, 2 Grayling

Eight trout on black klinkhammer size #18,color black.
It was beautiful river but a shame that I saw so much rubbish littered on the bank of the downstream beat near Merthyr Vale. I met two other fishermen who had been doing spinning from 4:00AM!

8 Trout