Feedback & Reports

Just a quick not to say thanks so much for your advice last Wednesday. My friend and I went down to Penpont and had a very successful evening. There was a rise for Olives going on at about 4pm when we arrived but this tailed off a bit and all went pretty quite for a couple of hours. As the evening went on fish began to head and tail in small pods of about 2 or 3 fish - some quite large. I caught a couple of beauties on size 18 F flies and then some more on olive emerger patterns as the light began to fade. For about half an hour before dark we had excellent sport taking several fish that pushed the 2lb mark and lost a couple of other more substantial fish.

The following morning we had an early start on Glen-a-afon (I think this is how you spell it). Anyway we had a great day. Early morning (c. 6.30am) there was a decent rise underway for - I think - spent olives. That tailed off and then everything went quite. Looking for a change of tactics we put our dry flies and small nymphs away and switched to a 3 fly Czech nymph set up. This change was met with immediate success and we proceeded to catch a number of fine trout up to around 2lb. Again, we lost some larger fish that must have been 3lb+ (but I suppose we will never know.....). Are sea trout partial to the occasional Czech nymph if it is swung strait into their mouth???

Anyway, really just wanted to thank you for persuading us to come down from Oxford. We had a brilliant 24 hours of fishing.

I fished the Wye 5 days last week & both Chub & Barbel were feeding well. My son & I had chub to 5lb + and barbel of 7,8,9 lb & in one session two doubles of 10lb 2oz & 11lb 12oz.

Brilliant.

We had a great day yesterday on the Upper Usk. about 17 fish between us from all over the beat. Biggest just over a pound. Great hatches of fly (tons of different species, which was only dampened by the rain in late afternoon). Also lots of small fish visible in river. Good sign all is healthy.

5 trout best 1?lb. 1 grayling all fish returned. Fished for 2hours Cool and cloudy with hardly any fly hatching or fish rising. All trout on nymph grayling on dry fly. A delightful stretch of water.

Once again sincere thanks to all of you at the Foundation, you're a godsend to reservoir anglers like us who don't have access to game rivers here in the Midlands. In the words of good old Arnie, we'll be back. Speak to you soon.

Just a note to thank you for your efforts in organising the fishing day yesterday. We had a wonderful time, everybody caught fish and Louis and Rich were great guides and excellent company.

I will have no hesitation in repeating the event next year.

I had a great time on Saturday. I did not manage to get any more trout - I got a number of fish to rise but for some reason my ability to hook them disappeared. I moved down to the Ty-mawr pool later and realised my ambition to catch a shad! I called it a day when I had caught 4. I found the best bit about fishing for them was seeing them mob the fly - very exciting in anticipation of the take. Many thanks for putting me on to the pool - I would never have chosen to fish there by myself, I was under the impression they tend to hang about in streamy water.

Cliff and I paid our first visit to the Llynfi Dulas on Saturday and had a great day despite the colour coming from one of the feeder streams. We had thirty fish between us at least three of which were over a pound. All on mayfly patterns. It was at its best when the river began to clear at around 3.30 p.m. Pretty good hatch of mayflies considering that it is a just a little early for them really.

The Edw fished like an absolute dream, by the way. I'm not sure I've ever enjoyed day's fishing more. One particular beauty was just over the pound mark and 14 inches, but there were plenty more around the 8 and 9 inch mark. Lots of mayfly about.
Keep up the good work!

...unfortunately having had several takes did not catch anything, hopefully this will be remedied next time. I still enjoyed the day out there with Kim Tribes company. A man with a wealth of knowledge and fun to be with. Thank you.