Feedback & Reports

1 Barbel, 7 Chub

I fished this venue for the first time and was very disappointed as on the website it said it would fish 4 people because of bad maintenance of the banks there was only 2 swims you could fish and paying £25 I trust what the website tells me 3 of us went up to fish two of us could fish the third was stuck under a tree and couldn’t cast not happy and travelled over three hours to get there

river average level
all on ledgered meat

1 Barbel, 5 Chub

Four on dries - small mayfly patterns - another on nymph. Some small pale wateries, sulphur yellows and some very small, pale, yellowish flies which were not mayfly at all - Diptera of some kind, I couldn't identify but they seemed to be on them at times, a size 20 IOBO was the only thing that would get bites when they focussed on those. No monsters but three were nice fish between 14 and 15" which fought hard - all in good condition, all returned as usual. Thanks for the fishing - a beautiful beat. Thanks also to Luke Bannister for fixing a broken tip on my Granger Favorite - first trip back on the water with that tip and it still performed beautifully, indistinguishable from the other. A c. 85 year-old rod but still such a sweet caster, a joy with both dry flies and light nymphs

5 Trout

Nil fish

A beautiful stretch, plenty of swims at the bottom end. There are a couple of decent swims at the top end but going downstream to the Suspension Bridge swims are very limited. Not worth the price

4 Chub

A really fun session ... initially started off quite when I bowled up at eleven bells....The day soon warmed up ..got to 17 degrees !!!
Fish responded to dries ftom sbout half twelve yo two ... Lovely to see the Ithon with some fresh water in it, and pushing through too .
Fish nailed my dries in the short window of feeding, which is as expected in these colder mornings !!
Got to minus 2 in Rhayader the last few nights ....log burner time most definately lol ....
Nice to see the kingfisher up and down as well. Probably feeding up heavily on minnows prior to a long winter ahead!!!
I'll try another stream tommorrow, then its just the big wild lakes of the Elan, Bugeilyn and Nantymoch. Thr variety is vast for clients, right up to October 17th .... great stuff !!
Well, I think this callsign deserves a large Baileys coffee, a fun three and a half hours on an old favourite.

7 Trout

3 Chub

access difficult due to rubbish stiles and too much barbed wire. Lovely day though and whilst it was hard work, it was good fun.
Don’t go if you’re not able to climb awkward fences!

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

no fish