Feedback & Reports

12lb hen Salmon at 9am and then a cock salmon close to 20lbs at 6pm. Both slightly coloured but in absolute mint condition and swam off strongly. My first and second Wye salmon on the fly after two years trying!
Thank you to Mr. S for netting the second for me.

2 Salmon, 4 Trout

The river appeared to be high and fast. I did not have any luck using a variety of dry flies or nymphs.

Another excellent day on the Craig Llyn stretch. I fished as a guest of Shaun Watkins who very kindly let me loose on this excellent stretch of river. Shaun had a very nice trout of a 1 1/2 and nice grayling about 3/4 to a 1lb. We fished klink and dink with a small natural weighted nymph under a klinkhammer. Shaun also was fishing wet spider patterns casting across and swinging the team around with some great success. There is a superb head of fish, set in beautiful countryside, access is good with the new stiles and all the strimming of the banks. Wading is good. In a couple of swims I would take a wading staff just to be safe but otherwise wading is fairly easy with felt or foam studded boats and chest waders.

4 Trout, 11 Grayling

Unsuccessful day this time but very enjoyable with many takes. Fished a floating line DT with mostly weighted nymphs. Still very new to river fishing but will be back. Saw two huge leaping fish around mid-day, possible salmon. Was sharing the beat with a fellow salmon angler, who like
myself was worried about the oncoming storm, but we carried on and was able to help him land the catch of the day, a 30 inch long Salmon, just about fitted in the landing net. Well done Mr G.

Lugg was quite low. Only v small stuff taking off the top hence no catch number registered. On yeah, and got chased by cattle as I exited the water before the weir.

Did not fish - couldn't find any obvious spot with room for a back cast. Might have looked harder if the weather had been better!

15 x trout 6-9 inches, Rusty Klinkhammer. Still low, although recent showers have put a bit of colour into it.

15 Trout

14lb coloured cock fish on Cascade.

1 Salmon

This beat has lots of variety for trout and salmon fishing. I saw all of it, and I tried and waded up much of that which was possible before the water level rose. I spent most of my time prospecting for trout using a 9ft 4wt rod and dry flies only - my choice as I also had spiders and nymphs with me, as well as more powerful and longer rods. It was cloudy and rather cold all day, with a strong upstream wind, and a little rain in the breeze. There were a couple of short hatches around me as I waded, but I saw very few rises – even in the long, smooth and still glides - apart from a couple of obvious big splashes in deep water off the wooded bank. I only caught two modest trout and, to be honest, one of them caught me. However, I really enjoyed fishing this lovely river, and getting to know the beat, and I would certainly like to fish here again – probably with a single handed salmon rod made up too. The very helpful owner of the beat phoned me before I started fishing to give me some tips, and he also called during my fishing, to thoughtfully warn me about a head of water heading my way – which I greatly appreciated. He had been watching the gauges and saw the flow of water coming downstream after yesterday's rain. The river started crystal clear, but by the time I left as the light faded around 8:30pm the level appeared to have risen in a very short time by more than 18 inches, and turned a chocolate colour. By the way, it was 2am on the day of fishing when I decided to book this beat – so the WUF online booking service was just what I needed, thank you.

2 Trout

River fairly low, but a pleasant warm but overcast day. Lots of Chub caught on legered pellet/meat. Finished off the day with a Barbel of about 3lb around 7.00pm. With these low clear conditions the Chub will often feed all day but you have to wait until the evening to catch the Barbel. As always a pleasure to be on the Wye.

1 Barbel, 15 Chub