Feedback & Reports

A nice autumn day on the Arrow, sunny and bright though cold in the shade. Despite the pleasant conditions the fishing was slow and I had only two bites (both landed) in the three hours I fished; both were from out of season trout of about 10", nicely coloured and in good condition. Both came to a beadhead nymph by the way.
This is a very nice beat with relatively easy wading.

River a little high for good fishing. A dozen grayling and a a few stockie trout. Grayling all taken on deep gold head nymphs mainly in the tails of the pools as too deep to wade in most places. A small trickle of olives during the afternoon and some rising fish in the lower section, though bait anglers on the lower section had them covered better.
Nice beat but needs to be lower than 0.68 on the EA's Ddol Farm guage to give good access. A few salmon sloshed about and evidence of a couple of redds in places.
WUF Note: Craig Llyn is fly fishing only. The lower half is single bank fishing so the bait anglers would have been from the opposite side.

7 Chub on bread and cheese paste. Missed a lots of bites on cheese paste. Time to start striking instead of letting barbel pull the rod over.

River clear but high. Weather - a perfect autumn day, mist rising and then sunshine. Saw no fish moving and caught none - but it mattered not. This is a beautiful stretch of water.

River high and fast. Lots of debris....I tried 5 different swims in the upper part of the fishery but not even bite all day. Access is ok, stairs are not that hard and the first swim is not too far. Area and the river is ok, but next time I will be going to different area of the Wye, which I like more.

Not a thing! River blown out by rain.

5 Barbel & 3 Chub on pellet and bread. Most of the fish came before 10am.

Cracking day at Luggsbridge - 4 chub 2lb 6, 2lb 8, 3lb 2 and 4lb 6. All fell to homemade stinky cheesepaste. First time using Wye and Usk Foundation. What a great organisation, very friendly and helpful will defo be coming back.

Perfect day. First time on this beat for both of us with the river clear and carrying a little extra level. DW fished fly in the morning and after a brief hatch of LDO's caught 2 Grayling 12" and 1 18" fish (2.5lbs) on dry sedge pattern. After lunch both rods trotted maggots with 70+ Grayling, 12 OSBT, 2 large Chub. All Grayling 10"/18" and all fish returned safely. We will be back.

Quite a tough day really with a strong downstream wind which resulted in the expected heavy leaf fall. Level still a little high but the clarity were fine and it was pretty nippy.
Concentrated away from the bedrock/gutter areas as the wading was challenging but did find some grayling in the gravelled areas. There was a flurry of LDO's around lunch time which brought some fish up including one or two healthy specimens. Total for the day 7 Grayling and one WBT. Sad to say there were Goosanders on the beat which we chased off but I caught one grayling with a fresh wound across the back. Goodness knows what they had eaten already.
Nice to see that the beat is available once again. The owner of Llanfechan house is asking anglers to put details of their catches in a diary that they keep.