Feedback & Reports

My first time on the Rectory - and what a lovely beat it is; plenty of streamy water, loads of long flats and some fun pocket water. After a diary error, I had to frantically replan and only made it to the hut around 1130. With blanket grey cloud, intermittent rain and a gusty breeze, things didn't look promising but a few small rising fish in the pool in front of the hut and a decent looking salmon topping in the Rectory Stream put me in a good mood.
I spent a couple of hours covering the bottom of the beat up to the Rectory Pot. The fast water is very "trouty" and every cast feels like it's covering fish, so I spent longer than I perhaps should have done for no reward. At the deep fast run below Rectory Pool I switched to a heavy weighted black magic nymph and had a hard fighting brownie of 14".
After that the wind died off for a spell, the rain paused and suddenly there were pale yellow and brown upwings and the fish were on the surface. I fished all the way round to New Catch with dries - yellow Comparaduns, pale evening dun, parachute adam's - and had 7 trout from 7-16", with a brief pause to throw a minnow pattern across the neck of the Rectory which resulted in two trout around 10".

By this time it was 7pm so I skipped over the flats and fished under the bridge quickly, losing one on an Adam's. Finishing just before 8pm I headed back to the hut but couldn't resist a couple more casts to the last few rises of the day in the pool directly in front of the hut; these led to a couple of tiny chub not much bigger than the fly!

All in all, a really excellent day despite unpleasant conditions. I'll certainly be back to this beat.

10 Trout, 2 Chub

Dull drizzling day and relatively cold. Nothing moving. No fish caught.
I have to face it that I enjoy wild stream fishing more in principle than practice , may well be something to do with my barbed wire management and lack of close presentation skills ! Maybe another day

Perch

4 Other

Plenty of fly life although very few fish taking off surface - 1 trout 14" on nymph fished Euro style

1 Trout

No fish caught no fish seen - Only fished top half and stopped after 2 hours due to wind and heavy rain.

No fish caught - only fished for an hour before being blown off the reservoir by really strong winds and heavy rain, bit of waste of time and mis-spent funds. Not clear why in the case of Talybont why the Wye & Usk charge 30% of the fee as an admin cost (booking fee)... If this is just to raise money for W&U then just say so versus passing this off as a booking/admin fee which has been out ruled in most organisations. Instead of book fee call it W&U funding contribution, I'd be happy with that.
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7 Trout

Fishing was quite slow compared to the days before as the temperature dropped over night. Fishing improved towards midday. All trout caught on the nymph in the deeper pools and in the faster water at the top end of the beat.
Trout were in the 6" to 10" range.

8 Trout

A rather cold day on the Wye with little moving or rising. Seven trout, the two best c. 1.5 lb and 1 lb. Caught on CDC deer hair dun (14), and two on GRHE (14). One salmon parr. All fish released.

7 Trout, 1 Other