Feedback & Reports

Looked at the Ithon River level, last night ......sitting nicely at 0.112m .... Great i thought, means her tributary, the Clywedog should be perfect, and she was when I parked at the bridge at bang on ten to midday!!!
Had a can of coke and my lunch, before starting and watched wasps come and go out of plastic tubing, that's near the parking area, well actually behind it if I'm bring honest!!! Fascinating things to watch, i could just see the small nest, just a bit bigger than a tennis ball ...... that'll soon be treble that by September..... Great to watch them go about their business....
The fishing today was cracking.... dry fly all the way as always, with my summer small stream fishing.... superb fun !!!! Lots to the net, and a good few slipping off to be fair !! Eighteen made it to the net, some nice chunky twelve inch fish, but the average about seven or eight inches I'd say ...lovely takes to my dry , just never tire of it !!! A slow mooch upstream.... superb stuff....
Got out by the weir at the top at four bells ....The River is running at perfect dry fly height, clear but certainly not deep !!! Fish small dries, cast accurately, and wade slowly is my motto here and in fact on most if not all the wild streams if you want success.....
The cows are a bit feisty in the field , but hey ho !! And tarka had been on the rampage I'd say in the lower part of the beat today .... pools that last week had two or three fish in them .... He's a real explorer, seen his prints at the Bridge and right up the top... Doesn't seem to dampen the quality of fishing. OK, fish aren't huge, but there are some nice surprises here .... five of mine today were over ten inches .... so that's good for a little trib. Right, another adventure tommoz ....maybe one of the Usk tribs, they always seem a little left out !!!... Home time and a bottle of Rev. James !!! Oofffffffffff .......

18 Trout

Open ended feeder with ground bait and halibut pelletts. River condition perfect but only two places to fish and hard to find . Map needs updating.
Lady on phone very helpful as much as she could be to find the two pegs.
Fantastic fishing really enjoyed it!

13 Chub

Excellent days fishing catching thirteen WBT, two of which were exceptional. See photos. Used spider's on two droppers with a Gold Head Hares Ear flashback on the point. Eleven were caught on the Hares Ear and two on a Greenwells spider. Lost four more before I could net them and had loads of pulls where they were coming short.

13 Trout

2 trout from Middleton section, both safely returned

2 Trout

Three wild brown trout on dry fly. A few fish rising but did not fish past 6pm.

3 Trout

A lovely morning, nicely cloudy and cold when I started at 05.00. Several residents playing in Vanstone and managed to turn 3 fish in upper Vanstone, 2 to the fly and one to a flying C, all before 08.00. Nothing moving further upstream and by 10.30 it was very busy with canoes, all very polite, but I have never connected with a salmon at Goodrich Court once the canoes are out. Left at 12.00 when it became very sunny. River level good, below 0.5 at Ross, water very coloured.

I fished up from Hergest Bridge today. The river was in good condition, good floor and clear when not cow-affected. I caught pretty steadily through the day with one fish of over a pound early on. This was a good day which would have been great but for two very good fish lost late on. Not much bug activity despite nice weather. Some fish on a small olive dry but most on nymphs.

18 Trout

1 barbel on the float on meat. Plenty of chub on feeder and float.

1 Barbel, 10 Chub

6 Trout, 1 Grayling

7 Trout