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1 8lb Common carp, but before I could start fishing i had to cut the weeds and long grass down to even get a peg that was relatively fishable, I'm a pensioner and I ended up finishing early as I pulled my back out
David Matthews

1 Other

Really odd. River looked perfect. A decent lift in the water level, plenty of colour but only about 1m of height. 4 of us fished hard in all the known pegs for a total of 1 bite on opening day. And that was an eel…

We suspect that something must have washed in to the river to knock the fish so off the feed. We didn’t even get the usual tip rattles from chublets.

Excellent start to the season the river was up but dropping throughout the day with a good colour 2 barbel 8lb 12oz and 8lb 4oz and 2 chub 5lb 4oz and 3lb the barbel fell to 14mm robin red pellets and the chub were caught on meat.The 5other were eels.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub, 5 Other

Good water level on a bright, hot day. No surface activity. 3 trout to a goldhead hares ear nymph in the deeper runs. 2 were nudging 1lb mark. Casting difficult in a lot of the lower section. With a lot of fallen trees to navigate. Lovely spot.

3 Trout

5 eel

3 Barbel, 2 Chub, 5 Other

Access to Glandwgan limited as the style on the left is blocked dur to a fallen tree. Decided to fish Rhosrhrydd instead.
Several fish rising but could not work out to what. Plenty of damsels and pond beetles but very few coch-y-bonddu.
Refusals to all imitations I had to offer...

This is my absolute favourite beat on the wye but on this occasion I was very disappointed, absolutely no maintenance has been done no swims cut out, with all the rain at the weekend the river was high fast and chocolate brown not ideal conditions areas that would normally be accessible weren’t which left us only two swims to fish. But we still managed a few fish, back again in a couple of weeks hopefully with better conditions.

1 Barbel, 5 Chub

The River looked fantastic - unusual for opening day. 3 Barbel to about 7lb. As the afternoon progressed the river calmed down, and although it retained its colour the eddies and creases that were there at 08:00 disappeared. The fish seemed to stop feeding and that was it for the day.
Quick note - the far car park is currently inaccessible due to a build up of flood debris behind the gate.

3 Barbel

Short evening session. No salmon caught or seen. However, very good trout fishing between 8.30pm and 10pm. Caught 3 trout on dries and lost several more. A nice stretch of the river here, recommended.

3 Trout

Great to be back on our favourite river for the opening day. Nice to have a long chat with Colin. River had good colour and dropped like a stone during the day.

1 Barbel, 29 Chub