Feedback & Reports

A wonderful long beat with some stunning pools, but felt it was getting a little low in most pools (1ft on the brecon guage) to fish well for Salmon. Caught lots of small trout but no sign of a Salmon. Took advantage of the evening ticket scheme and moved to Glan-y-Cafn for the evening. A beautiful place to fish and thank you.

Fished evening session after much of the day spent at Dinas which was getting a bit low. One other rod fishing all day. Interesting beat, quite overgrown in places and take care on the concrete walk ways. Fished much of the beat and then the prefered bits again in what looked like perfect conditions, sadly did not see any sign of Salar, although the other day rod lost a fish in the morning. Many thanks to all for arranging a great day's fishing in Wales.

5 Rainbows on worm.

Conditions worse than yesterday stuck it out for a few hours to no avail more like Winter than Summer.

Lots of small rudd?/roach, no fish of any size i.e. above 3 ozs. Bit of a tramp to get there, not so much distance more the narrow, partially obstructed paths...but if we want wild fishing this is to be expected.
When you get there a nice seclude place.

River 3ft up and holding. We fished the Cow field on the lower half of the beat as it looked the most promising and accessible stretch. We ended up with 5 barbel between 5lb and 7lb and 13 chub to 4lb 10oz. Most fish were caught on feeder fished halibut pellet, though a lot of the chub came to trotted luncheon meat.

Penpont - high water, running off, 14 fish between the four of us, biggest BT at about 14", would have been good next day!!
Great time had by all, cant wait for the next time.

7 Barbel on hallibut pellet. 1 Chub same bait.

After 19 blanks it was something of a relief to finally net fish number 2. It was a cock fish of about 10lbs and almost as coloured as an Autumn fish. Taken on a spinner. Whilst un-hooking, I noticed considerable damage to it’s mouth. In my opinion it had either been hooked and lost or landed and un-hooked/handled roughly. The river was about 2ft above summer level and quite clear.

I didn't catch anything or see a fish all day. I got the feeling that the beat is not terribly well looked after - the path down to the beat was overgrown and the walkway, which is referred to in the beat publicity, is in need of considerable repair. There was also very little detail on the beat map as to where to fish, where the lies and "hotspots" were etc. The other thing that did not please me was that there were a number of other people fishing the beat with their spinning rods!! I feel pretty confident they hadn't paid their £35.00 for the privilege!!All in all, not a great day.

WUF note - There has been an increase in poaching effort in this area recently so please ring the office immediately on seeing anything suspicious.