Feedback & Reports

The weather was much the same as during the last week, with a nasty upstream wind for most of the day and bright sunshine. A few olives appeared at times throughout the day but rises were few and far between. We either nymphed, or fished dries and emergers, and fish caught were probably equally shared between both methods, and both rising and non-rising fish were taken with the surface patterns. The sixteen grayling ranged from 10 - 14" and the trout from 8 - 12". Flies taking fish at the surface included a HE emerger, Grayling Steel Blue and a dark olive Ducks Dun. As has been the case fishing elsewhere on the Wye in the last week, there was no shortage of active grayling here, unlike yesterday on the Irfon.

20 Trout, 16 Grayling

Amazing weather and beautiful surroundings, a couple of small fish caught and quite a few missed. I lost my tweed flat cap, if anyone finds it please get in touch its been on many fishing trips and will be sorely missed.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

A beautiful day for my annual pilgrimage to Gromain. Very few rises and only a brief flurry of Pale waterys around noon when the sun came through. The day was spent with the long rod and nymphs, Czech nymphing in the deeper runs just before the tail and at the head of the pools and French nymphing in the faster shallower water. Peeping Caddis and copper tung bead GRHE with a pink thorax worked well, the average size of the Grayling was better than last year with the largest at 15", the best OOS Trout was a stunning fish at 18", four Parr were also caught. A word of warning to folk with larger vehicles ( I drive a VW T5), the parking marked on the map does not have enough room to turn around which means a tricky reverse up a rough track onto a busy road. I park on the road verge by the bottom field gate by LLanstephan bridge.

10 Trout, 18 Grayling, 4 Other

A beautiful day to be on the river and also to be on a beat we'd never been too before. As such there's always a bit of uncertainty as to which the most productive swims might be. As it turned out, none of the 6 we tried were. Although the river looked in perfect condition (other than some floating leaves, we didn't get a single bite all day. Previously successful methods (pellet with swim feeder) produced nothing and experimentation with other baits and methods proved no better. Was it too bright, too warm? No idea, but other than the weather and gorgeous surroundings, a very disappointing day.

10-12lbs cock salmon home made fly, silver and yellow size 12 hook at 1.30 pm Fish returned safely.

1 Salmon

Nice location, unfortunately the barbel and chub were playing hide and seek and we lost. did manage a perch to about 1.5 lbs and a minnow lol. Big thanks to the farmer for the taxi service as the walk to the bank would be quite daunting with out him.

2 Other

Low, clear and bright.Predictably no bites. Nil

lovely day out enjoyed my time and the advice from Mick.The amount of weed in the river made conditions difficult, seen some salmon but sorry to report no fish caught.

This was definitely a game of two halves. we fished all day through to 4 pm with just two chub to around 4lb to show for our efforts . then between 4 pm and 7 pm we caught 14 barbel all of the 5-8 lb stamp plus a chub to 6lb. all on pellet/feeder tactics. Conditions were not ideal, water low, clear and blazing sunshine with swans practicing their take off and landing technique but on the plus side, no canoes! ....but if we hadn't caught the barbel it would still have been a great day out. Will be back.

14 Barbel, 3 Chub

Fishing very poor with one of the 3 anglers getting no bites at all in 2 days! Water colour was good but level a little low with very little weed coming down the river. All anglers were bottom fishing with various different baits tried. Plain ledgers and swim feeders were tried, with ground bait and loose feed used.

2 Chub