Feedback & Reports

Well a cold foggy morning when I was out with the pooch this morning at half six !!! Minus two and like pea soup with fog . . . Debating in my head where to wet a line .

Plumbed for the little River Dore , and set off , the usual Hereford traffic driving through aaarrrgh that's why I favour the A44 ti be honest and fishing out towards Rhayader and Aberystwyth , still never mind !!!

Got there at ten , parked up at the Tan House Farm pull in , still reading one degrees in my truck, tackled up my six foot two weight , as I know it is always tight in the stream here , single silver and pink tungsten nymph tied on and bimbled down to the beat start . . . . .

Worked slowly up, one small six inch brownie on , slipped back in , mid way on the beat , a decent deep deep pool , worked the nymph, bang!!@ something decent on , and played out a cracking twelve inch grayling, admired then slipped back in , two minutes later and into another one, ditto in size , into a good thing I thought !! But I really worked that pool and no more ladies playing at the party today!! Still was nice to get the two this morning , and that was my lot , a lovely amble upstream, I must say it's in desperate need of a hair cut and lots of new trees fallen across the stream , shame really!!! But three chaps with loppers will tidy this up a treat , needs it big time !!!

A fun couple of hours , two lovely ladies to the net , oh and a rather nice Mailes Pie from Locks Garage . . . . . . . Weeeeeeeell gotta be done hey !!!!

2 Grayling

Dense fog, and a little chilly when we arrived (-3 degrees). Water pushing through but looked ideal, so we persevered despite biting cold. Tried various methods through the day, but only managed 1 Grayling - caught by DJ on a small nymph. Very tough going, but great to get out on the River !

1 Grayling

Zero fish

lovely day, river in great condition, managed 4 chub, biggest went 5.5lb and was very short and massively fat. cracking stretch in winter or summer

4 Chub

10 x grayling 14-17 inches, 4 x out of season trout 10-15 inches, trotting. Another warm winter day, cloudy with increasing wind. With the Llanstephan gauge at 2ft 3 inches and some colour in the water, it was a matter of concentrating on slower water near the bank. A lovely class of good-looking grayling today, but they were surprisingly spooky with a need for light tackle to get more solid takes. Unwanted trout came muscling in to spoil the fun towards the end. I had a very pleasant chat with visiting day ticket rods.

10 Grayling

Water high and dark - not much to be had.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

1 Barbel

An unseasonable 14 degrees this afternoon, drizzling on and off. The Ithon showed 0.30 on the gauge and the water was distinctly clay coloured. Result was 1 x (or should it be 2 x) 16 inch grayling, plus 1 x out of season 10 inch trout, trotting. Hesitation about the number to record is because today I actually caught the same fish twice within a space of less than 10 minutes. One nice grayling was caught in a run, photographed and returned slightly upstream. A couple of trots later the float dipped again, less of a fight this time, and there was the same grayling again. No doubt about it because of a very distinctive bite wound on the tail. Immediately after being returned he had gone right back to feeding!
I have had this experience a couple of times before with grayling, and once with a Spanish river carp on a hot afternoon in Toledo - floating crust was the bait in that case.
By the way, thanks to those who sent sympathetic notes about my Landrover breakdown. The good news is that it wasn't as catastrophic as I thought and the old girl is already back in action. I still have to do jury service when the new season opens though!

1 Grayling, 1 Trout