Feedback & Reports

Another grand day on the Edw - quite cool but many sunny periods, and enough flies hatching to make the trout look up. Eventually landed 16, between 5" and 10", on either paras or dries (adams, dark olives etc.). I think I could have tempted some of the larger trout on nymphs, but was enjoying the top of the water sport. Lots of active birds as well, including 2 Kingfishers flashing past for a few minutes.

16 Trout

Full cloud cover that reached down and touched the ground with some typical Welsh drizzle-in fact it rained hard for some of the time. Temperature ranged from 15 to 18. Water was thin and very clear; only in deep pools of upper beat did the bottom vanish. Large Browns (like March ones,except it is September), tiny grey dusters and very few brown/purple mayfly (?) were hatching. Fish ignoring the lot - perhaps 1 rise all day. Took fish on a gold bead GRHE and nothing else would do. WBT to 5" and salmon parr. Onto the upper beat: I missed the beat stop sign and found myself in a gorge with a couple of pools stuffed with fish - Having lost my 5th GRHE I had the chance to experiment - nothing else (honest). In higher water that section would be dangerous to wade... I went swimming twice.
Despite the rain and the spooky fish, I had a fantastic day (11.00-6:30) and didn't get to fish Hergest as planned. Great day out - if a little bruised!

4 Trout, 3 Other

Staying in Kington I looked at the Arrow and decided I needed to venture further afield. The Edw is usually a great beat but I arrived to find it suffering from a similar lack of water. Two small browns of about 5" saved my morning. One to a PTN the other to a Klinkhammer.

2 Trout

Most fish caught on PTN a few on the Adams both size 16. Slowed in the afternoon when sun came out. Beautiful quiet beat.

20 Trout

Fished from 10am to 12.30pm.
Having fished this beat 5 days ago in high water I was looking forward to giving it a go today. On arrival water conditions looked perfect. I only had a couple of hours so fished the lower end of the beat quickly only fishing the most productive looking areas.
The trout were in the mood and after 2.5 hours 15 had fallen to a PTN barbless fly. The largest a cracking 14inch fish! I rarely photograph any catches but I had to take a quick pic of this one.
8 salmon par also came to hand.
All fished returned. Small stream fishing at it's best in my book.

15 Trout, 8 Other

A hard few hours on this fantastic stream that obviously has potential. Fished from 7am-10.30am.
The main river was high carrying lots of colour and unfortunately so was this beat.I very nearly went back but decided to have a walk/fish and use it as a recce for the future. With the Water 6 inches above my ankles I could only just make out the metal lace eylets and with the water just below my knee they were not visible at all. Conditions were fishable but only just. And air temp was down to 6 degrees C.
A small trout fell to a GRHE variant on the 3rd cast. I then fished the next 40 mins without a touch. Wading up the stream was slow going with the conditions.
I changed to a bright Red Tag with gold bead and first cast it took the best fish of the day at 10 inches. After that, takes were more regular but with the coloured fast water I was bumping and loosing far more than I was hooking.
The natural nature of the stream meant that every type of presentation had to be used from every angle which was great!
I fished using a Tenkara 10ft rod and single barbless fly. In hind-sight I would have fished a version of the Czech style in the deeper runs as these areas were the most productive but it needed to be bouncing the stream bed.
I'll be back as this beat has real potential!

9 Trout

All fish caught dry on Adams or rusty Klinkhammer. All returned. Largest 12", most half that. Went barbless and as many fish "fell off" as were caught. Also hooked several quick salmon parr. I fished methodically and got to top in 6 hours. Great conditions. Water a little cloudy, overcast and a weak breeze. No hatch to speak of so all fish tempted up.

13 Trout

10-1400 lots of midge some olives. No rises so prospected with various dry/emergers and small yellow klink produced one 6"wbt. What a sport for grown men! Water good I think but first time here and only half of bottom section covered. Will be back for sure.

1 Trout

The river was cristal clear. All fish returned. All with dry fly. Different flies like Adams, elk hair, royal. Very nice day indeed.

6 Trout

Only spent an hour here but plenty of action - a few salmon parr to supplement the four trout including one of 12" taken on dries and olive nymph.

4 Trout