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Had a great day on the river and will certainly be back!!

Little action on the surface with the trout sitting low on the bottom taking nymphs. Had quite a few hits but was only able to hook the one. A really beautifully marked fish of about 1 3/4 pounds. Not too bad at all!
Caught on a size 14 gold bead head pheasant tail nymph just to the side of Llanspyddid Rough. Did see a cracking trout of about 2 1/2 pounds in-between what I think was highwell and poplar pools and quite a few smaller fish of about 1/2 a pound.

I just wanted to congratulate you on what you've achieved and also offer a big thanks. I've just spent four days fishing your roving voucher beats and it has been without doubt the best fishing I've had in this country. The scenery was stunning and the rivers even more so. I didn't catch a huge number of fish but that was more down to my nigh on complete refusal to fish anything other than dries. As soon as I started to use nymphs I began to catch.. Ho hum.. Did get a beauty of a brown, around 18" from the Irfon. I was amazed at the water quality in this river - there were stretches that looked almost like New Zealand.

I will certainly be back as often as possible.

My only thought, more an observation really, is what can be done to encourage farmers to dispose of litter like fertiliser bags without them ending up in the rivers? An aesthetic only but I guess a difficult one to solve due to the large numbers of farms along the rivers?

Anyway,thanks again.

6 fish to around 8". All that you say of this wonderful place is true - and more so. But, I should have heeded the warnings rather more and I might have avoided a ducking.

We would like to say thank you to the wyeuskfoundation for the fishing availability information which has provided us with a very enjoyable bank holiday three day fishing trip, we didn`t catch much but that doesn`t matter we still had a good time. The Cornhill pub in Rhayader for anyone staying in the area often has live music on at weekends and they do good real ale which added to our night in Rhayader.

I thought that you would be pleased to know that your scheme enabled me to have a great day out on the Llanstephan beat on Saturday. I tried trotting for grayling in the morning but had no luck.

In the afternoon, despite a very gusty wind I found the chub in very obliging mood and between 2 swims on the 'Orchard' I caught 12 chub with 4 being over 4 pounds.
Fantastic sport and I'll be back again to try and get one of the whoppers!

I so enjoy reading the river reports when sat in my London based staff room I can almost imagine I am back home on one of the many rivers.

We arrived at the river at 7.45am to experience a temperature drop down to -2 degrees from the 6 degrees it was where we started out from and a freezing thick fog!. The river was like tap water and we were wondering if we would catch anything at all.

Initially, the going was certainly tough with rod rings freezing and no sign of the fog lifting. Fortunately early afternoon saw the sun finally break through and instantly the fish responded with grayling rising to a hatch of olives, this was short lived but enabled us to catch on both dry fly and nymph for the rest of the afternoon.

Locating the feeding fish seems to be the key to success and was helped by a regular visiter to the waters (Charlie) who pointed us in the right direction.

We ended up with a total of 11 Grayling (with most of them over a 1lb) and 2 brownies, we were taken aback by the sheer beauty of this stretch of river and we are sure there is a potential to catch a lot of big Grayling from this river, (slightly warmer weather and a little more practice!).

We will certainly be looking forward to the next chance we get to visit the Irfon again, thanks.

The river was fairly low and full of streamer weed, with a lot loose and in the flow, this unfortunately made my target of ledgering for barbel impossible as the line became weed bound within minutes. However, I changed to stick float donned the waders and float fished maggots between the weed beds, I have to say it was literally a ?fish a chuck? small roach, chub, bleak and even the odd minnow, the problem was I could not feed the small fish ?off? which of course prevented me from fishing at a depth were the larger fish may have been.

Biggest chub was around the 2 pounds mark, with the average fish around 3 to 4 ounces. The number of fish caught ??? must be well in excess of 150 ?. Pity about the weed but a very pleasurable day in very nice surroundings, being able to drive to the spot is also a very useful.

Superb day again. Many large fish moving - mainly browns but couple of salmon too. Smaller browns quicker to take the fly!!

Some of the most thrilling fishing in the most perfect surroundings - what a wonderful part of the country! We are both river fishermen by choice and delight in using traditional tackle and methods. This is how fishing should be!(Mr Crabtree told me) Full marks to the Foundation for their work and foresight in bringing this kind of experience to an appreciative audience - incidentally the website has to be one of the best designed we've seen, ease of navigation and presentation absolutely top notch. Finally a well deserved 'plug' for Aly and Dave Beavins at 'Gromaine Cottage'(via the Foundation website) - friendly and accommodating, gargantuan breakfasts - the perfect hosts! As Arnie said - 'I'll be back'