Feedback & Reports

A great day, light winds, warm and good river levels. Caught the first couple of fish on nymphs then a steady hatch of LDO and march browns kept the fish looking up all day. Fish were rising throughout the beat and most were caught on a size 14 CDC quill shuttlecock. All good size fish, biggest around 2.5lb

16 Trout

Warm sunny day at first, quickly turned cold with downstream gusts for rest of day
Over 1’ on Brecon gauge
Just about handful of upwing flies seen, and only one rise
Four trout 6” to 16”, two on weighted spider, two on streamer, fished with sinking polyleader

4 Trout

Very strong downstream wind all day made casting very difficult. Water coloured but not too badly. All fish caught using French Leader with nymphs and with largest trout to 2Ibs. Hatch of March Browns lasted all of 5 minutes and was only in the one location.

5 Trout

Almost another wash off at Dinas, but the river was just about fishable, albeit only with jig woolly buggers ! Quite exciting fishing with numerous connections. Managed to land two @ 12” but lost several including two in the 16-18” range in the heavy flow. When will Spring finally arrive ?

2 Trout

Fast running water and very windy. Enjoyable nevertheless, even for a novice like me. First time river fishing. No catch from either of us but a lovely day.

Washed off-did not fish

River had dropped and was easily wadeable and fishable. Smattering of March Browns on an off with 4 fish to dry flies and the rest to spiders. All small 9-13” but in good condition. This is a lovely beat and very accessible with few trees on the fishing bank.

10 Trout

Didn't fish river flooded

Difficult conditions, very high water levels and dirty

1 Trout

We arrived at the water when it was 1.5ft on the Brecon gauge but very coloured. There was a little bit of visibility in the margins but otherwise it looked grim. We decided to give it a go in the hope that it would clear through the day. There was a sparse hatch of LDOs but a couple of brilliant hatches of March Browns. No fish rose to the March Browns but one or two came up for the LDO emergers. Only one succumbed to our dry flies, the rest of our fish being taken on spiders and nymph. The water cleared somewhat by mid afternoon but it was still pretty coloured. An enjoyable day and we ended up with 7 more fish than we thought we would when we first saw the state of the water.

7 Trout