Feedback & Reports

First time on this beat and size of makes it a challenge working out where to fish - thanks to DC for his advice.
Day started well - within first half hour had 2 grayling around 10" and had lost one and missed another take all from the Bathing Pool.
Worked our way to the bottom of the beat and back up to the Bathing Pool for a late lunch and had not seen another fish - nothing rising or taking.
At 2.30 had a small trout. We knew we had to leave at 4.30 so headed up to the mouth of the Clettwr. Here we finally found a few rises and tempted 3 more grayling 10", 12" and a plump 15". Fishing was hampered by a strong upstream wind - but we stuck with small dries all day.
A lot of water to find fish in and not easy to wade far enough to fish all the available water - but a lovely stretch of river.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

All taken on pheasant tail nymph. Strong healthy fish two about 1/2lb one close to 1 1/2lb. First time in area but river seemed in pristine condition.

3 Grayling

Quiet day with few rises & no takers on wets/nymphs until a carpet of tiny ants started arriving c. 4pm, prompting a feeding frenzy across the river. Matching the hatch proved difficult as nothing was airborne and all my smallest flies were ignored (griffiths gnat etc.) Eventually tempted a couple of grayling on a tiny klinkhammer from the Green Bank tail, including a hard-fighting 16" fish which needed almost 10 minutes to recover itself.
Even the resident ducks joined in the ant-fest, whizzing round the pool in flotilla formation slurping up as many as they could. The carpet was still arriving when I left c. 7pm, so there must have been trillions of ants and a lot of full-to bursting fish- I saw from another report same thing at Dolgau so they must have hatched somewhere way upstream.

2 Grayling, 1 Other

Quiet day, no rises - 1 small trout & grayling & 1 salmon parr all to wets in the faster water.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling, 1 Other

Fished from 5pm to 9pm. There was a fairly decent hatch of sedges, and a few olives and yellow mays. The fish were looking up and took an elk hair emerger as often as the little ptn I fished below it. Most of the fish were small, the biggest graying was 9/10" and two of the trout were about the same.

7 Trout, 2 Grayling, 1 Chub

Low water with a strong downstream breeze. Most fish taken on dark bodied gold head nymphs in the faster water. Several on dry fly, olive Klink, late afternoon. Fishing buddy Alex Fidgen had the pleasure of seeing two otters in the reeds and water below the hut as he was waiting for me to return from the bottom of the beat. Also had a fly by from a very low level Hercules.

10 Trout, 1 Grayling

Difficult conditions with gusting wind increasing in strength all day, managed 2 grayling biggest 12" and a couple of small trout all on dry fly.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

Tricky conditions with strong downstream breeze all day - managed one decent 12" grayling from the Clettwr mouth and missed a few more takes on a dry, including further downstream where there was no respite from the wind, unfortunately it just followed around the bend in the river. Heard a very large fish jump by the Armies pool, assume it was a trout as it was on the far bank under the trees not a likely salmon haunt? Couldn't cast to the far bank as the wind was there just too strong for my 3wt line, even from the middle of the river.
There was a small minibus in the parking area when I arrived, and the fishing lodge was occupied with a couple of heavy duty spinning rods set up on the rack outside - didn't see anyone fishing with them & they were still there when I left c. 6pm.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Conditions looked near perfect and we had high hopes for a good day, but that was sitting in the car drivng to the venue. There was the odd fish topping looking down on the river by the chalet accompanied by a cool breeze. That was all we could put it down to was a cool breeze keeping the fish down, still it wasn't a disaster DC took all his fish on the dry and GC on spiders and ptn. Four fin perfect salmon parr and an occasional show by the grown ups get us amused throughout the day.
Many thanks to the Wye and Usk

1 Trout, 3 Grayling, 4 Other

Perfect Trout conditions, good hatch of Olives and a few Spinners, thoroughly enjoyed my experience. Four fish caught none of any appreciable size, the largest being approx 30cm.

4 Trout