Feedback & Reports

The Lower Crai is lovely. Long-ish flats and short riffles. All the best-looking spots are very tree-hung. This beat strikes me as a hatch beat: it can look pretty fish-less but then when the insects appear so do the fish.
I didn’t fish either long or well today but did happen to be at the right spot - a deeper chute, heavily tree-hung - just when the fish appeared, and managed three on a dry (olive comparadun) before normal incompetence resumed. One was a clonker though, 1lb 10oz, my biggest from a wild stream.

3 Trout

Clear bright day so tried fishing deeper (the lake is exceptionally deep) Caught a superb trout approx 14” . Very grateful to Fishing Passport for making these amazing waters so accessible.

1 Trout

Barbel didn't show until late on. Chub were everywhere as they seem to be everywhere on the Wye.
Pellet and feeder brought the fish

3 Barbel, 48 Chub

I brownie caught and 1 lost
Overcast morning, sunnier later, gentle ripple on most of the reservoir. Very few rises seen.
I caught on a spider, 1 lost on a small streamer.

1 Trout

4 Trout

2 trout and missed another 4. All on the dry in the last hour or so. Large fish boiled at the fly but no connection unfortunatley! You can clearly see the effects of phosphate pollution on this river which is a worry. No weed in the beat and a tree full of cormorants do not bode well....

2 Trout

Had a great day on the River Lugg at Lyepole. Access was not easy but once on the river searched out areas of faster water. The gloomy morning turned into a sunny afternoon. Fished from 11.30 to 16.00.
One trout was caught on a spider pattern . All other fish were caught on a single size 16 bead head nymph. Had five long distance releases. All the fish were in the 6 to 10 inch range. Had a lovely close encounter with a mink which walked around me as I struggled to get line though the hook eye. Really enjoyed the day.
Thanks to the foundation for great information and really easy booking, I hope to book further days in the future.

2 Trout, 3 Grayling

Weather cloudy with a westerly wind. Fished Rhosgoch for a couple of hours without success so moved down to Blaenmelindwr, which was sheltered from the wind and caught 2 brown trout that had been feeding on damsel flies.

2 Trout

Better conditions on the upper Wye as lower down the river was in flood. Couple of trout each on nymphs and spiders.

4 Trout

1 Barbel, 1 Chub