Feedback & Reports

Absolutely loads of small trout surface activity from 8pm until 10pm and in a short 20mins with the 4WT trout rod, caught 9 brownies klink and dinking between 5 and 10 inches and missed/lost twice as many, fishing barbless.
Broke the sewin kit out at last light and moved to the pool between the main beat parking and Crewil. In the gloom I could see a few fish splashing down stream of me. They weren't of any size, 2-4lbs but I think they were running as I had a 2 sharp tugs but they didn't stick. Maybe if I wasn't fishing barbless they might have!
No one else around. Lovely evening though on a lovely beat.

9 Trout

River dropped again over night and after such a hectic day on the Monday, the barbel definitely seemed to have dropped back, possibly into deeper water downstream. Still, I had some great fun on the float catching the chub but lost a couple of nice barbel in the faster flow. However, I did catch a lovely 9lb+ barbel from the deep hole below the island so was pretty chuffed with that. Had to work much harder for the fish today but still a very enjoyable day on the Wye.

4 Barbel, 7 Chub

Very hot day. Had a couple of Chub in the morning, then three Barbel in the evening, all on pellets from the croy. Nice quiet beat.

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

Hot sunny day - some sporadic surface feeding, both fish (small) on Para-Adams size 18.

2 Trout

My wife and I were on holiday in Cwm Irfon, so I booked the Upper Irfon beat for Tuesday and Wednesday.
I fished for 1.5 hours before breakfast and caught 5 small trout of 4oz or less. I saw several larger trout (1lb - 1.5lb), but couldn't tempt them.
I fished again for 1 hour at dusk, and caught 3 small trout.

8 Trout

No fish caught, the odd tiny one taking flies off the surface. Beautiful backdrop and superb weather, but of course the low flows are the negative and not a single hint of a fish of any size in what little water remained. I did catch a lovely wild brown trout here last year in much better water, so I'd recommend to anyone thinking of fishing here, wait for plenty of rain first!

River 0.4 and gin clear. Temp 30c at 7pm and still 24c at 10pm. John and I opted for trout fishing spider partridge and orange and small greenwells nymph subsurface in Woodstream and Top Run resulting in 11 for me and 5 for John from par to 12 oz. Good sport! All returned.
Switched to dry wulff size 14 at 9.30pm and had another 4 but some large trout showed in the streamy water below the rock but unable to tempt any of these. Suspect they had moved up from the pool late on. John had one more in tail of Chine pool.

21 Trout

Fished the top of the beat in the afternoon in the heat of a scorching day and received not a single bite for my efforts. Moved downstream and fished the beach in the evening with the desired effect. Lots of interest from the resident barbel and two 5 pounders landed plus an eel. The former on halibut pellets and the latter on a piece of luncheon meat. A wonderful beat, great vehicle access and a very friendly farmer. Banks are very steep at the top end but the lower end is pretty easy going, I even managed to get a chair out. Many thanks to WUF.

2 Barbel, 1 Other

Lovely evening again in such a beautiful valley at Titley , Another big fish @ 14ins on dusk on a deer hair sedge.

6 Trout

River low but coloured with algae.

10 Barbel, 5 Chub