Feedback & Reports

Well, after that horrible intense heat, was lovely heading out today ....
I was up at sparrows fart anyway, sorting the garden and getting some nice cold water put into the pond....
Fished 10 till 2pm .... A lovely , surprising session to be honest !!! First thing to get done ....Temperature dipping, of the water...She was very low, but sitting at a very reasonable 14.5 degrees C ..... Happy with that!!!
Fished dries, as always....Great fun, and, fish prepared to nail the flies today too. I'm sure its the cooler conditions have brought them on !!! A few insects about too, and several lovely sightings of the kingfisher ......... Watched one nail a minnow too ....just superb !!!
The fish were of the usual stamp for here, seven to nine or ten inches maybe ....Great fun ...I cut out two pools after the Elan Pipes....I always think thats just about right then ...And, some good dry fly sport too, with nine to my net....Can't fault that !!@
Back home and a well earned cold can of Inchs cider me thinks ....Round of a cracking sunday !!! Out on the Afon Elan later in the week with a client ... Might venture over to an Usk tributary mid week, give one of those a bash ...

9 Trout

River down behind the rec in pontardawe, I had plenty of follows but no catches there. Too many people bringing their dogs to jump in the river when trying to fish.
River alongside the trebanos rfc rugby field did a couple hours down the river, nothing

Nothing caught ?

River looked lovely, it’s a lovely stretch. Sadly only Eels were biting today, but we’ll be back.

4 Other

Lovely to get back here , few changes nice to see the lock been redone . Very tricky conditions and a couple steep pegs didn’t help but nothing interested few takes on dry fly which luckily left the fly gear in , nothing on bait . Top swim footpath almost gone very narrow . Unfortunately other people fishing on opposite bank on dug out steps messed up my plans on fishing at very top of beat .

3 Chub

river very low but managed 1 x 4lb Barbel

love this beat

1 Barbel

3 Barbel, 12 Chub

Coolest day of the week after a week of extreme heat warnings. River now very low which has really hinderd the Barbel movement with such low oxygen levels and high water temperatures the rivers are in real need of rainfall. Managed 4 Chub again around 3.5lb could of had more if I had shortened the hair and hook length, krill and Bloodworm dumbells doing the trick on the feeder. Will as ever return later in season.

4 Chub

Fished the evening from 4pm to dusk. Had a few chub but couldn’t tempt a barbel. Used feeder tactics with pallets and boillies. Really enjoyed being back on the Wye.

5 Chub

My first visit to this beat and as expected after the dry spell of weather the river level was very low.
The temperature had fallen significantly over night and I was hopeful the fish would be in a feeding mood but sadly this was not to be the case.
A mixture of feeder and float fishing were tried in a number of swims without success.......it was not to be my day.

This is a well maintained section with good parking and easy access along the bank although it would be sensible to bring a rope to safely reach some swims especially in wet weather.
No fish but an enjoyable day in a peaceful location along with the wildlife.