Feedback & Reports

Perfect early season day on the Honddu. Mild conditions got the fish feeding. Nothing massive, but lots of fish 9 to 12 inches about. All on nymphs either NZ style, tight-line nymphing or under a bung.

10 Trout

No fish, but the Spring river was rather stunning in the sun!

River running very high and coloured. No flies seen. One small trout caught and returned) on PT nymph. Very muddy from Car park through farm yard.

1 Trout

Well , after inspiration from the excellent vlog done on YouTube, by Ceri and Parf ..... thought I'd venture out from the Wye catchment and head over Brecon way and give the Honddu a couple of hours ..... Got to the farmyard parking at eleven ...swimming in mud, thankfully the lady who I met on a quad suggested I park on the left prior to actually getting into the farm complex .... superb, its dry there and clean at least for getting waders on !!!! I was met by the usual border collies .... lovely dogs to be fair ....
Anyway , I guessed it may be pushing through, and boy was she ... very coloured too !!! Gggrrrrrrrrr looks like a settled week this week thankfully!! These rivers need to settle down and drop considerably...Well I set up a single 5mm silver tungsten pheasant tail... did the job in the pool runs I could get at ... fish not in feed lanes yet in these cold tributaries....I managed three lovely fish, two a bit skinny,but they'll soon fatten up .... !!! Fish were between thirteen and nine inches . A lovely couple of hours , I must admit lots of rubbish on the walk back .... not an easy beat lots of barbed wire, and awkward access to river everywhere !!! No acess points made for anglers and to be honest WUF I kind of swagged the beat start .... no plastic WUF sign ???? Must admit I do prefer the Edw,Arrow Lugg and Cammarch as far as my first recce goes ?? ... Years and years I've been fishing the wild streams, but never been here, always nice to try a new beat, may give it another crack mid May .... on a sultry insecty evening ..... lol !!!
Anyway a fun couple of hours, called in at The Wye stretch over thr Bridge at Builth, had two lovely brownies from there .... nice ... looking forward to dry fly action on that beat its superb . Another wild stream tommorrow, lovely job!!! And best of all today we had sun, and thirteen degrees !! Awesome!

3 Trout

An early foray onto the Brecon Honddu. Water was quite high, but clearing with a tint of colour. Fishing heavy nymphs we had half a dozen each over the course of a couple of hours, mostly 9 to 11 inchers. RM did however land a really good fish, of 17 inches.

12 Trout

Enjoyable beat,You require a reasonable level of fitness to access the river.Nice way to spend a few hours.

3 Trout

A short late PM visit. Water level was high (perfect!) and the fish obliged, lots of 7 to 12 inch fish about, we only fished a very short section and every pool produced high numbers of fish. Nymphs fished on a Euro nymph set up, or under a dry fly 'NZ' style worked well.

15 Trout

2 Trout

None was caught

None has been caught ????