Feedback & Reports

Beautiful day on this lovely beat introducing my 10 year old son to river fly fishing.Lovely welcome from the owner at Penpont who showed us where to park and how to access the river. Lots and lots of moving fish but couldn't find the dry to tempt them - we literally were casting onto their heads at times. Switched to a single size 16 hare's ear on an indicator and got some takes. My son hooked and lost a very good fish using this method. Tough beat but a lovely day followed by dinner at The Griffin at Felin Fach which more than made up for our blank!

A pretty quiet day all in all, a couple of trout landed and some parr and small fish lost. One or two sightings of salmon but nothing hooked.

2 Trout

1ft 1 inch on the gauge, running clear, but no catch. Before the sun got on the water, a fish hooked in the Rectory Neck on a size 10 Bann Shrimp. It backed steadily down into Rectory shaking its head until eventually the hook pulled. Another test of character.

must say nice to get up there today been some time since been there ,water a little choppy in parts as we three spots here today one or to knocks on the float but not much to shout about but a big zero on any catch today ether lost my skill and gone rusty or there was just no go in them fish today but in all a good day on the lake

great day on the water caught three sizable fish and lost others also had a lot of rise from fry which were usually ignored. River in fine shape.

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

very weird day. grayling rising only in a couple of glides and not really reacting to nymph everywhere else. all fish bar two grayling fell for midge imitations size 18-22 . a few sedge and olives about but zero activity to them

3 Trout, 8 Grayling

21 barbel and 2 chub all before 10 o'clock biggest only about 6 pounds but very enjoyable day until the boats arrived.
All barbel caught on feeder with pellet or meat hook baits chub caught trotting bread

21 Barbel, 2 Chub

First time on this river . Fantastic setting . But it is very rugged , not that many accessible swims for coarse fishing . River was running at a steady pace . Holding bottom with 3 oz . Never had first bite till 4 , lost one , landed one 8 lb 6 oz . A lot of canoes. But I did expect that as it was a bank holiday. I would definitely give it another go.

1 Barbel

Lovely day, sunny with clouds, river level lowish, clear and falling slightly. Big hatch of flies and fish steadily rising on gravel flats. Fished between 11.30 and 2.30. Only 3 smallish grayling caught, a couple more lost and what was probably a larger trout swirled at a salmon fly being worked down a rocky gutter on One Tree catch. Should have had more! Small downstream olive nymphs working best. Area fished - Long Stream down to Coed Cowyn pool. Sat quietly on bank for an hour and wonderful to see 4 definitely, possibly 6 kingfishers flying up and down river and very close to us, also a dipper and a woodpecker.

3 Grayling

Still no sign of salmon on this beat. Perhaps it needs a few days of heavy rain to get them to hang around. But it was a lovely day and I had some fun in the evening with my trout rod.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling