Feedback & Reports

The river was low and the weather was bright with plenty of Sunshine. Sweetcorn and meat accounted for 7 chub during the afternoon from various swims. Settled down to try for barbel and managed a couple, but had to wait until 7pm with the light starting to fade.
Finally, well done to the owners for providing plenty of accessible swims on this short but beautiful stretch of river.

2 Barbel, 7 Chub

Day 4 of 5 and our group had grown to 3. The barbel were a good average size topped by a fish of 10lb 2oz with a 9 and some 8s. Fish were caught throughout the day without ever getting their heads down and fell to a variety of pellet and boilies baits fished below feeders. Areas fished were mainly the wood but also Leggs Meadow which proved unproductive.

15 Barbel, 9 Chub, 1 Other

A beautiful day and my first time on this lovely beat. Catching trout hard work, though! Fished from 10-4 and had one WBT on a deep nymph, lost another. Plenty of fish rising but not interested in my dry offerings. Felt I should have done better - will return to give it another blast.

1 Trout

Only fished half a day, great stretch of river with easy access. Other 2 Eels 1LB plus each. Biggest Barbel 7LB 14OZ
Biggest Chub 4LB 7OZ.

4 Barbel, 9 Chub, 2 Other

Stiff down stream breeze didn't help but that abated by late morning. No fish rising, fished a duo with PTN and caught 5 trout around 8 -10 inches. Saw one diseased fish around 2 pound. Appeared to have white fungal growth around its head.

5 Trout

Another great evenings fishing. The third and final day so started seriously fishing in the early afternoon and fished until early evening before travelling home. The river was still very low and clear and the fish seemed to have backed off the feed a little, although as soon as the sun started to fade the bites came thick and fast. All fish came to pellets and some very successful homemade boilies, all presented using standard feeder techniques. Biggest barbel was 9lb 8oz and the biggest chub about 4lb. A very enjoyable few days. I will be returning very shortly. Many thanks to Don.

7 Barbel, 5 Chub

Very low water, but nice fish. Caught grayling up to 12 inch in a fast run.

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

Fished from 4.30am to 8.30am river very low and clear will fish much better after some rain.

1 Barbel, 1 Other

7lb hen fish from lower crib caught on black FC. My first fish on this beat.

1 Salmon

Low water with only 7" on the Llanstephan guage and a lovely day's weather: mainly cloudy and little wind for a change. Unfortunately though, the favourable conditions made no difference whatsoever to insect life, with few bugs around, as on all rivers at the moment - just a few Yellow Mays and small olives, and hardly any sedges or midge. Not surprising then that there weren't too many rising fish! That's not to say though that they weren't looking up, because they clearly were. I started in the morning with duo and had a grayling on the HE emerger and a trout on the PT nymph but that was it, so changed to nymphs and dropped a nice grayling on the GRHE on the point, but tempted nothing else. Saw a couple of sips in the early afternoon and decided to switch to the HE emerger again and proceeded to catch sixteen more grayling and four trout, just searching the usual honey holes, and with most fish being non-risers. What they were taking the emerger for, I haven't a clue! Most trout were 8-10" and the best 14". Most grayling were 11-13", with others of 8-10" and the best a 15" 1.25 pounder. All in fine fettle and all returned. Planned to stay for a hoped for evening rise but was knackered decided to give up at 6 p.m.! All in all, a rather strange day but a pleasantly rewarding one. Grayling can be so obliging can't they!

5 Trout, 17 Grayling