Feedback & Reports

Cold windy day, lots of recent rain but the Irfon does drop and fine down quickly and it did exactly what it said on the tin.
Small mixed hatch, trickling off throughout the day. Dry fly for a couple of hours and rewarded with 2 wbt and 1 grayling. All around 10". Went very quiet so decided to kink and dink and took two more feisty grayling on the klink!
Have become a bit of a small stream man over the last few years but today Cefnllysgwynne reminded me how exhilarating it is to hook and play a decent fish in a wide, deep, pristine river amongst stunningly beautiful landscape.
A spectacular beat. So much variety and so much to learn. Definitely a work in progress for me, I'll be back.

3 Trout, 2 Grayling

Started up in the wooded section, I had 6 barbel and 1 chub in morning on feeder and pellet but Steve did not have a bite so we moved down to the meadow in the afternoon where then steve had 5 barbel (including a personal best of 10lb 8oz), 2 chub and an eel. I finished the day with 9 barbel and 4 chub, all fish were good size.

14 Barbel, 6 Chub, 1 Other

A little bit of extra water in the morning, which was gone by the evening. All fish taken on small north country spiders. Best trout 10". Very enjoyable day but a little more water would help.

4 Trout, 1 Chub

River running high and cloudy.

First time on this beat so took a while searching the different stretches. Beautifu river in good condition and delightful woodside path. Had 2 from flats on black nymph. Few yellow and brown small uprights hatching but only small fish sporadically interested and couldnt get fish to rise to a variety of dries. Returned to nymph working down flats and had several more- beautiful well conditioned fighting fish. Superb beat with excellent fishing. Thank you

5 Trout

First visit to the 'Rocks', river high and very fast,couldn't really get in the water but still 8 fish to hand. 5 trout 8-13" all on hares ear nymph,3 grayling 12" all on dry fly. All in excellent condition.

5 Trout, 3 Grayling

4 days on this beat couldn't have been better with a rising river and some colour the Barbel fed continuously with 91 fish and plenty of chub all caught on feeder tactics from various swims unbelievable four days thank you angling dreams.

91 Barbel, 8 Chub

Arrived at 8am to find the river looking good after some rain at the weekend. We selected a comfortable swim for the pair of us and I landed a 9lb barbel on the second cast! We got some great advice from Don, Tony netted a 4.5lb barbel and lost a couple more fish, so we decided to try other swims as the sun had now come out. Early afternoon I had another 9lb barbel and a 4lb and 4.5lb chub. By early evening we were sunburnt but the action was more consistent and I managed another 4 barbel, including another 9lb fish and a number of chub.
A great day on the Wye with good size barbel - 6 fish for 50lb - on a great stretch and I gave Tony a taste of his own medicine following the pasting I received on the first outing of the season!

7 Barbel, 8 Chub

Water coloured and about .71m when I arrived. Decided spinner better than fly. John Lewis had arrived earlier and had no luck before lunch spinning with red and gold fc. He returned to the car at the lodge and decided to have one lat try, changing to a yellow and gold fc. Bingo, an immediate take and he's into an 8 lb fish which immediately jumped and detached.
I persevered with red and gold and fished the rock with SM. No luck there, so SM moved to below the bridge. I followed half an hour later and changed to a black and gold fc. This produced an immediate take behind the large boulder midstream.
SM obliged by landing a surprise sea trout of around 3lb. Only the third such fish I have caught on this beat in 20 years. Thanks Stuart.
The river began to rise and colour up so I did some trout casting with Charles Rouse before leaving at 8pm. Water beyond .8m at that point.

1 Sea Trout

Although only a short beat it has plenty to go at, all fish caught on pellet and ground bait feeder.

2 Barbel, 4 Chub