Feedback & Reports

Fished from 10 a.m. and finished early, quite chilled at about 4.30 p.m. Water 1'2" on the Llanstephan guage and quite nippy at eight degrees. Fairly calm and cloudy for most of the day but a bit of a cold upstream wind, mid-afternoon. Definitely now time for the LJs and also for another top layer next time out - winter cometh! Pale wateries and a few olives appeared early afternoon which induced fish to rise. Whilst fly was still around when I left, the fish pretty much stopped rising at about 3.30 p.m. Had about a third of the fish on nymphs (FBPTN, pink shrimp and Duracell) and the rest on a small light hare's ear Duck's Dun which, as over the last few weeks up north, seems to have induced fish rising to PWs and olives to take up top. Best OOS trout 14" and the rest 10-12", and most grayling 10-12" with a couple of 13-14" fish as well. Must stay warmer next time out!

6 Trout, 15 Grayling

Please see report from previous day

No fish, river low and clear

A hard but enjoyable day on a lovely stretch of the Wye best barbel was 6 04

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Sliding ledger

Due to a problem at work me fishing mate was called in. I found the river very low and clear as expected. The first frost of the year didn't help along with a bright day. Fished most of the stretch not a bite. That said a very enjoyable day out.

A rather better day than expected after we arrived to find the water so dark, was it the colour of the water or the light this time of year? It certainly didn't look like I remember from a previous visit. The silver beaded black and red nymph was the fly of choice for those caught, ignoring any shrimp pattern teamed with it fished CZ style. All grayling in 11 - 14 inch class, a small but Irfon beautiful oos brownie to hand. All returned with love.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

14 x grayling to 15 inches, 2 x out of season trout to 12 inches. Rained all morning, but sunshine came through about 3 in the afternoon. Pretty hard work, really, still on a very low stream with the bottom covered with slime. Many of the runs too shallow to fish, so worked on the deeper pools. All on heavy nymphs, except for a last fish on the dry fly (Grayling Steel Blue) before finishing.

14 Grayling

1st time on this beat, nice easy access and plenty of swims although when the river is this low we could only find a bit of depth in the 1st field. CH had 4 and I 1 all on the usual pellet feeder method. Would certainly return here with a few more feet of water on. Fish were 5 to just under 8lb.

5 Barbel

The river was low but with some colour the temperature was about 10 C. with a hazy sky. Fished bottom half of this delightful stretch, osbt taking ginger hackled dry fly willingly, but no sign of grayling

4 Trout