Feedback & Reports

Fished Upper Glangwy and the Rock from 7am without success. Returned to the river at 5pm with no takes on the Rectory neck but the flow was so positive I headed for the Bridge pool. A resounding take about 4-6 casts down from the top and on the inside of the flow eventually revealed a lovely, slightly coloured and spirited cock fish of circa 13lbs. This took me slightly by surprise as all previous takes have been from lies closer to the big rocks further down the pool. A great result also for my first tying of a #12 Park Shrimp though what started as a rather 'bouffant' version now looks slightly chewed up.

1 Salmon

Excellent days sport on the most user friendly stretch as you can access all the bank. Before going into detail I must stress how difficult it is to get into this fishery . The gate onto the main road is difficult to negotiate without a partner. Then you may have as we did 2 combination padlocks to get through on the road gate and the inner field gate. The locks are very stiff and we spent ages fiddling with them. Remember that you do not line up the numbers in the middle of the 'window' you will find the line above that. Once inside the field the drive down to the salmon hut is fine - if dry. I would not do the walk if I could not use the car - so maybe not one to gamble with in winter.
Had to move swims to find the fish but located a few at the bottom end but in less obvious swims. We caught 8 barbel to 8lb plus but 3 of the barbel were 1lb or less - good sign for the future. Also 6 chub to 4lb and 1 dace! Mostly pellets on feeder, some on meat. The dace took an 8mm pellet!
Quite a few salmon showing.

8 Barbel, 7 Chub, 1 Other

My first visit to the Wye and it certainly didn't disappoint! River quite coloured and pacy. All fish came from two rod lengths out from the first accessible swim. Used Krill flavour throughout my ground bait to my hook bait - a grateful nod towards Martin Bowler - thank you.

4 Barbel, 3 Chub

A little local knowledge from the reception at our campsite (Pencelli Castle, two miles on the same road, excellent facilities) said 'go small'. All our small trout were caught on 14 and 16 size klinkhammer and grey duster. Nothing tempted through the day despite casting to rising fish, all caught between 17.00 to 20.00
Three trout in the lower pools of the beat, one from the pool below the canal aqueduct.

4 Trout

Didn't start until lunchtime and all our endeavours came to nothing. We tried several different swims and tactics.

Sadly, another blank. Didn't see any rising fish today but did see a lot of trout in several places from 5/6 to 10 inches. Some were in shoals of up to 10 fish of various sizes. At one point I was in a pool, waist height, and fish were swimming by me almost oblivious to my presence. I had already tried drys here earlier so changed to nymphs, Tried several patterns and shrimps and got some casual glances but no takers. It was amazing to see them at such close range. Spoke to a local near my accommodation who said they had been on a reservoir day before, fish jumping out taking flies on the wing but wouldn't touch anything they offered. At least it wasn't just me!!

1 Trout

A fresh, slightly breezy day - mainly sunny. Virtually no signs whatsoever of fish rising. Fished, nevertheless, with dry flies (as nymphing is something of a dark art, to me)
Both my companion and myself are inexperienced which I am sure counts a lot to the fact that we caught nothing.
Had a pleasant day nonetheless, with lots of experience of casting both into and across the wind.

Fished for total of about three hours during afternoon, at the various open spots along the west (roadside) bank. Sunny but strong on-shore breeze. One fish landed on a Bibio. Another good fish lost, and three other takes. The reservoir appeared high.

1 Trout

7 Trout, 2 Grayling