Feedback & Reports

Another smashing day on the Wye weather not great - clear blue sky & chilly downstream gusty breeze made trotting hard work but no problem on the feeder, had 11 barbel - 6 beautiful (2 lb / 3 lb) fish plus 5 better fish to 8ish lbs plus 1 chub many thanks WUF.

Water very low and clear with slow flow, caught a few fingerling grayling and wbt/salmon par but never saw anything of any size. We need rain to liven things up.

Started off by making the descision to fish the fishing hut bank rather than making the long journey round, what a v-good decision this turned out to be, managed to catch 4 barbel to 6lb and 2 chub 2lbs in the confluence pool during overcast conditions. As soon as the sun came out my swim died a death. Decided to move above John in next swim up, he was clearly on the barbel with 1 barbel that looked like a double. He decided to leave and said you should jump in here, so I did - I had another 5 barbel, biggest 9lb 14oz with two 7+s and two 6.5lbs all on pellet. What an amazing days fishing on the Wye - the beat is short but very very sweet!

Nine barbel to 8lb+ and three chub between the two of us. A beautiful Autumn day even if the fish were fairly uncooperative.

First time at Courtfield, water rising and fair amount of weed pushing through. A real pleasure to meet Don the owner had a good chat with him, (what a down to earth chap), he also gave my friend Phil and I a bit of advise on the beat, Phil took his advise (good job someone listens), he moved producing after 2pm fishing pellet over pellet 4 barbel, 4.8, 6.0, 6.8, a cracking 10lb 12ozs and a chub of 5lb. I decided to stay put and had chub of 4.6 and a barbel of 6.2 most enjoyable. Found some great accommodation a mile away called the Jovial Colliers Bunkhouse, great value for money and the owners Denise and Tony were most obliging.

First time on this beat and enjoyed it a lot!!
Some good sized pools holding plenty of fish and despite a good deal of tree cover easy enough to fish.
2 Grayling 17" and 14"
4 Trout all around 11"-12"
Missed plenty more...I'll be back!

Superb day on the water. Mild and sunny autumn day with leaves drifting down onto the water and carpeting the granite bedrock in places - very special time of year to be on the water... 25 Grayling between the two of us. Largest fish 2lb 2oz and two small out of season trout. Funny how the trout just switch off and concentrate on other things at this time of year. I reckon fishing the same beat a month ago would have resulted in lots of trout. Most grayling taken on size 20/22 cdc f fly and size 14 olive emerger. Also some on size 20 copper head tungsten PTN/Hares ear combo fly - my all round favourite nymph for WUF waters. Thanks again WUF for a great day and Sterling advice Seth!

Fished for pike but no luck on this occasion. However, still enjoyed a good day out - great scenery - bailiff was also helpful.

9lb salmon from tail of Rock Pool.

A lovely still autumn day with a few PWs and LDOs but very few rises. Have never fished Ty Newydd when it is quite so high (1' 8") and after it had risen 6" overnight. So, water cool at 13 degrees but running reasonably clear, although appeared a tad murkier over the afternoon. Had 18 grayling of mainly the smaller year classes but a few of 12-13" plus half a dozen small out-of-season browns and quite a few 3-4" graylets. That's the good news - the bad was seeing 7 roosting cormorants on arrival and four goosanders off and on throughout the day (will report to the Angling Trust FEB website). Most fish came to Grayling Steel Blue, one to a Treacle Parkin spider and a few to a skinny tung-headed pink nymph. Hard graft (and "interesting" wading in the slighly murky and pacier than usual water!!). With settled weather and still quite warm, it should fish well over the next few days.