Feedback & Reports

Morning conditions difficult with light rain clearing towards midday. The river was coloured and a little higher than usual due to recent rain. One brown trout (~1.25 lb) taken on the retrieve to a small olive nymph just below the first weir upstream of the town. A second brown (~1.5 lb) taken at the top of the stretch, late afternoon on a dry grannom variant.
Other notable sightings, two foxes drinking at the rivers edge on the opposite bank, unfortunately they were swiftly followed by a large mink to the same spot!
A lovely days fishing, although the banks are very overgrown, compared to when I used to fish this stretch some years ago, making the river inaccessible in a lot of sections at the upper end of the town water.

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Is as much as one tenth of the shoreline of Talybont Reservoir currently accessible to anglers? Perhaps Welsh Water is too busy ladling sewage into the Usk (more than 1,300 releases in 2025 alone, online claim) to be able to address this.

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Fished until midday, just upsteam of the town bridge, in persistent rain and blustery wind. River rising slowly with a little more colour. Both fish took a black bead head red tag nymph

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Adverse weather this morning, strong wind and the likelihood of the water being coloured up this afternoon, encouraged a 'no show'!

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A strong downstream wind made fishing very awkward. Sporadic hatches of olives and yellow may duns brought fish up periodically from late morning to late afternoon. I walked up and down a lot to find rising fish. In the evening some fish talking spent spinner at the tails of pools. Only 4 fish to the net (largest about 1.5lbs) but no less than 8 fish lost, three of which were probably north of 2lbs. Obviously very frustrating but still a cracking day on a lovely stretch of river.

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