Feedback & Reports

After losing a fish here yesterday and seeing several others running through I knew it was holding a good few. Returned today for a focused run through for a few hours. River at a beautiful height and flow 1'9" on the Llanstephan gauge. First fish took in main flow of the Stepping Stones: a 33" Hen around 15lb's. Second fish took in the neck of the Upper Caban: 37" Cock fish - 22lb on the sturdy scale. Both gave a great battle on 7wt switch rod with 3ips 10ft tip and a size 10 red Ally's Shrimp. Challenging wading and access but amazing water and scenery, topped off by a PB. V happy drive home today!

2 Salmon, 2 Trout

1 lost [ see other report]

Wonderful stretch of the Wye but the river here is very inaccessible and difficult wading. No Salmon showing today despite best efforts. Entertained by the RAF low level flying along this stretch of the Wye, buzzed on 3 separate occasions by a Chinook Helicopter, Tornado Fighter Jet and a very large Transporter plane, excellent!!

Two 10lbers this morning, size 10 Bann shrimp. Lucky to get the second fish - line went under a mid river boulder and it removed the poly from my polyleader. Only had it for about five years as well.

2 Salmon

A calm and bright (but not sunny) day on the river. Yellow Mays and Mayfly (etc.) emerging throughout most of the day. Trout from 9" to 12", with one c. 14"; Grayling c. 1lb. Fish in deep runs, faster and slower moving pools, especially at the ends of the pools. A few salmon moving. Best fishing up until 6pm, then the river went quiet (the opposite of the previous days fishing at Plas Gwyn). Bead-headed GRHE; CDC comparadun, and klinkhammers. The wading is very tricky in places; a wading stick (I used a pre-cut length of hazel), and good wading boots, are absolutely essential. A beat with lots of variety. A lovely day's fishing.

15 Trout, 1 Grayling

16 lb fish this morning, 3 casts with single hook fly c after 3 hours of fly fishing. Exasperating at times this fishing business.

1 Salmon

The river was very low and the top half of the beat almost unwadable due to the uneven algae coated bedrock. Anglers should take great care wading here - it was some of the toughest wading I've encountered (and I've fished most of the upper Wye beats).
Duo outfished French leader tactics and all fish >1lb took a klink type pattern. The largest grayling weighted 1lb 8oz.
A decent beat for a few hours but be careful!

12 Grayling

Fished morning at Lower Glanwye and afternoon at the Rocks. All quiet on the surface except for two salmon in the Lower Cabin and two smaller salmon showed at top of Rocks. Good to see and hope they get to where ever and do their stuff. Grayling wise six off Lower Glanwye, small , biggest 8 inches. Not so many off Rocks,only two, but one 16 inches. All fell to a light brown hackled, purple body, pink tail weighted size 14 (sorry name unknown as self tied )fished under an a bung.

6 Grayling

1 Grayling

Grayling about 1/2 lb on nymphs, and a small trout from the bottom of the beat.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling