Feedback & Reports

Wanted to give somewhere local a bash , after a series of night shifts , so headed to the Whittern beat ,got there at two, cold northerly gusty wind and sunshine eeekkkkkk!!! Kitted up with my usual rig , opting for a single hot orange tiny tungsten nymph , hard work today to be honest , had one on the nymph , and up passed the second bridge saw a riser , and had him with an eighteen Parachute Adam's, lovely take , both fish the usual stamp for here , about eight or nine inches , and feisty little fish too !!!

The water was back to pretty low , although running nice and clear and cold too !! Several fly pasts of the kingfisher up and down the river ,great too see . . . Looks like that might be me for the small streams this season , a short season due to the obvious pandemic , but varied on these wild streams I must say , and some clonkers too !!! The Whittern beat like some of the others is getting messy , lots of boughs down , overhanging Alderson and the like !!!

Still a cracking three hours , good fun , nice to finish my wild streams sortie on the Arrow , up to a couple of the reservoirs in the Elan Valley over the next few days look forward too that , sorted!!!!

2 Trout

2 Trout

A little windy & cold but river was at a great level.
A very nice easily accessible beat with a nice mixture of pools and rapids.
No fish rising which was probably to do with the temp. One small trout caught on a gold head pheasant tail nymph

1 Trout

No fish caught.

We used one rod to target barbel with a feeder and the other trotting stick float with maggots. While we had no luck on feeder there was plenty of action on the float, catching mostly good sized dace and a few chub. Overall good day fishing.

3 Chub, 19 Other

Llangoed & Lower Llanstephan: 18lb cock from The Orchard for Charles Tweedie on a size 12 Gledswood Shrimp.

1 Salmon, 2 Trout

6lbs Thrs and 14 lbs today both stale cock fish

2 Salmon

Redbrook 14lb Salmon for Pete Wright Joe Surley pool on a Red Francis.
8lb Salmon for Simon MacLucas Football Pool ( on boat) Red Francis.

2 Salmon

A mid afternoon to evening session in bight, cold and blustery conditions, no bites and no fish seen...not even the usually obliging Wye chub..very strange..!

Slightly colder air & water temperature with quite a brisk breeze today , whipping up a few waves on the water. Sunshine & very clear water all made things difficult . When the wind dropped at about 5pm we had a few bites with one decent barbel of about 9-10lbs.
An extended lunch break was called for & what a beautiful place to have it. Swans were in good form with regular RAF style fly pasts, Kingfishers busy in the sheltered 'backs' & still a flock of Sand martins doing the circuit. There was a good hatch 5pmish when the wind dropped & even a couple of trout rising. We saw a cormorant very,very high up suddenly go into a 'stoop'-type dive, twisting & turning as he fell, down to the far bend in the river; I didn't know they could enjoy themselves...they always seem to be slowly flapping from A to B looking rather depressed.
Good day all round despite the lack of bites early on. If I had a memory I would have remembered the strand of barbed wire stretched across the top of the exit gate; Difficult to see in the dark & things do bleed as you get older.
Thanks all once again for these opportunities.

3 Barbel