Feedback & Reports

1 perch caught on worm. Hard to catch the trout as they were more interested in the illegal powerbait fishing methods being used by the other anglers there. I think more bailiff visits are in order.

1 Other

Not the days fishing we expected. We were looking forward to a days trout fishing but the river was pushing fairly hard with intermittent rain and wading was hard if not dangerous. I am in the process of learning to spey cast so in the afternoon, I decided it would be a good spot to practice. I tackled up with a size 14 low water salmon fly. I ended the day having hooked a Salmon, caught three lovely Grayling, the largest must have been near three pounds. Not a bad practice session!! All fish safely returned. More work needed on the casting but can't be doing to much wrong. A day to remember. Thank you.

2 Trout, 3 Grayling

Caught in Boat Pool on Black FC single hook with flattened barb. The beat has a total of 23 not 22 as previously stated.

1 Salmon

12 lbs coloured hen on fly. At long last,the black Irfon water has run out and the levels are now low enough for this beat.

1 Salmon

5 x sewin, one, two, three, three and six pounds, small teal blue and silver tubes and Lyn's Secret Weapon. Another dark and warm night, full cloud cover. Oddly enough, no fish showed on the surface at all.

5 Sea Trout

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

Nil return...some residents splashing in Martin's Pool, nothing else seen. Next time....

2 Chub

Managed to squeeze an afternoon/early evening visit in to this stretch and again wasn't disappointed. All fish to feeder tactics on a variety of the usual baits with the majority of the fish coming from the first left hand bank swim. Great afternoons fishing - many thanks.

5 Barbel, 7 Chub

2nd day of 2. With the fishing not feeding early we moved around the beat and mid morning got into the fish. Same tactics before and tried rolling meat which was great fun for the chub.
A brilliant two days and will certainly be back. The Green Man in the village looked after us handsomely. Will 100% be back. A treat to fish such an amazing river in such a beautiful area.

5 Barbel, 13 Chub

Short day fishing 10:00 - 15:30. Fished a similar peg to the previous day and started well with a couple of barbel. The chub then appeared in numbers and made finding the barbel difficult. I managed another barbel, but then at around 13:00, decided to move 100 yards upstream. Immediately caught a couple more barbel in the new swim, fishing mid river. More chub then followed, but not so prolific. Finished with 4 barbel in total from the new swim.
All the fish fell to pellets and I had slightly more success using a pellet only feeder than a ground-bait feeder. The later appeared to immediately attract chub that would take the bait on the drop (as did at least one barbel).

7 Barbel, 15 Chub