Feedback & Reports

My memory must be fading – was thinking it had been too long since we had one of our red letter days on a main river beat but checking feedback it was only 2018.

We were very hopeful today – it hadn’t rained for a week and the day dawned softly with light grey cloud cover – usually a good omen. All that was needed then was for there to be some insect life and the fish to co-operate.

The previous evening the river was at 1ft 7ins on the Llanstephan gauge and it hadn’t dropped much by the time we arrived. This meant that the water was pushing through and wading was so say the least challenging – right at the limit of what we are comfortable with in fact, although it dropped to 1ft 4ins by the time we left. There was a mixed hatch in progress when we arrived and there was a golden period of a couple of hours when despite there being no rises to the hatch a dozen fish came to hand – a pretty even mix of wbt and Ladies. After that there were a few rising fish but nothing consistent – yet we managed a final tally of 22, with the best wbt a 14 incher and the best lady a solid 17 inch fish. There was a much more intense hatch of small olives as the evening approached but no real response from the fish.

We also had the pleasure of the company of the fishery owners who were glamping in their wooden caravan idyll at the river side. A real pleasure to chat and put the world to rights. Here’s hoping for tight lines for you the next day and good weather for the rest of your stay.

12 Trout, 10 Grayling

1 Trout

1 Trout

Water high and pushing through. 1 brown trout. Not much happeneing.

1 Trout

A beautiful day to fish. I didn't do as well as I have previously losing a lot of trout to my incompetence! But again, not a single sign of a salmon of any kind

12 Trout

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

Water was coloured and high and fast - but I fought valiantly on...

7 Trout, 2 Grayling

2 Trout

It was a beautiful day to be out on the river. The water was at a good height and pretty clear. There were very few rising fish, despite quite a few blue olives and yellow may dunns. I did my usual trick of hooking loads of fish, several of them fairly large up to 3lb - and lost them all! I don't know what I'm doing wrong; I've lost about 20 large trout in the last few weeks.
But the big news has to be, once again, not a single salmon of any kind seen.

5 Trout

Only my second outing for a Salmon and my first on the Wye. The river was quite coloured on arrival and falling which made wading interesting, the weather was glorious but much cooler and feeling quite autumnal. No salmon seen or caught, just one suicidal trout taking my fly despite me doing a reasonable job of casting and covering a lot of water, I felt like I deserved a Salmon but I knew it wasn’t going to be easy. A lovely day thank you.

1 Trout