Feedback & Reports

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

Day 3. 1 chub 3.03 and 1 barbel 8.13 today. 1 barbel lost... cut off on the rocks. Over the 3 days I've lost 6 feeders and 4 leads..on the rocks due to debris pulling and moving them on the bottom. Strong mainline and hook lengths required. 3 of the barbel had other hooks with line in their mouths far too fine approx 6lb line. I got cut off on 35lb braid!! Gotta say fantastic sport in this river and the obstacles make it worthy adversary. Back next year ?

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Pellet and ground bait feeder, boilies or pellet as bait.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

Fished both in the trees and down in the field hooked and lost one barbel to a snag mid river.

Nothing caught and no bites, used both wet and dry fly

4 fished, biggest barbel 10lb+

15 Barbel, 15 Chub

Walked over the hill to the top end of the beat. All the chub & 1 barbel on the float with punched meat. 1 barbel to touch ledgered pellet. Both barbel small fish in excellent condition which must bode well for the future of the fishery.

2 Barbel, 11 Chub

We saw a couple of Grayling spook and swim upstream but nothing biting sadly.

Both were caught on a hare's ear and partridge spider. I had to leave at lunchtime, when it was starting to warm up and flies, particularly stoneflies, were starting to come off the water.

2 Grayling

An “interesting” day during which I walked 3.5 miles, regrettably mainly criss-crossing through fields, trying to access the river rather than in the river itself. Assembling the jigsaw of previous catch returns once home, I think I should on reflection have given Melyn Cildu a miss. Having parked in the downstream car park, there has in places, been massive bankside erosion, negating access. Relatively new barbed wire fencing along the upper part of the middle section of the beat, and a forest of bracken, makes access to the river difficult, and one can’t access the top third of the beat at all by following the riverbank upstream. To do that one must park at the upstream parking, from where access to the river is nigh impossible (yet more barbed wire) and that discovered after the descent of a long and very steep incline to get down to and back from the river. Add to all of that, the fact that the bottom 16% of the beat is in a deep inaccessible ravine, guarded by yet more barbed wire, I left unimpressed. I would estimate that only about 50 - 60% of the fishery is accessible at any time and probably offers better value for money at more favourable times of the year, before the bracken appears and then after it has died back. In future I will stick to fishing at Cefnllysgwynne.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling