Feedback & Reports

Just to say we had a fabulous week. I had an enormous brownie at Fenni Fach. On for about 10mins before I lost it - 60cm He jumped many times and it was very exciting, so happy but also disappointed

I fished Dan-y-Parc yesterday WOW Its a fantastic stretch and the water was perfect. I managed 6 decent trout on the upper beat in the morning, the best going one and a half pounds. I started on the wet fly and caught the days best fish on my second cast, and then the fish started rising at around 10am. After a fruitless hour, I managed to pick one up on an elk hair dun imitation but as soon as I tried my trusty CDC Dun it catches fish anywhere when other patterns fail, I got a take from virtually every trout that I covered. I lost one cracker that was north of 2lbs as he tore off line into the far bank and came loose.

I got up to the Aberedw beat yesterday and whilst not as successful as your latest endeavours I managed 11 very pretty & feisty brownies in about 4 hours or so, all on various klinkhammers dark olive & brown mostly. I know I may get more on nymphs but I just get so much more fun out of catching them on dries. There was an amazing amount of insect life about too - brook duns, some enormous sedges, the odd yellow may dun and even a stray mayfly, but nothing appeared to be hatching as far as I could see.

The morning overcast persisted but it grew steadily warmer and more humid as the day wore on. An amazing variety of birds were intent on picking off emerging upwings but the trout weren’t interested. Occasional movement subsurface seemed to be from smaller fish. I worked hard for my trout. I tried a variety of dries and emergers with little success. One fish rising in a shaded glide took a rusty Klinkhammer but the other five all came to small weighted nymphs. Best fish 8”.

6 Trout

For the record, the fish weighed just on 14 pounds and was caught on a (home tied!) cascade size 8 double - the fly is now preserved for posterity.
Once again, thanks to you and all the team for quite fabulous support and service. It really is an outstanding organisation that you have; one of which you should all be very proud. I'll keep telling people...

I had loads of fun while i was up, rain coloured water for a couple of days but thats when you go off to be a tourist and see the sights, the best day was behind the trout inn, and a lovely place to stay as well, the big bath was perfect for drying facilities, they thought i was mad.
The best beat was 5, parking at the church plenty of space and with the coppicing was so easy to cast an 8ft rod, couple nice fish there on a pheasant tail, i was a bit miffed at where the beat ended as i couldnt find any signs, maybe i didnt go far enough but i did wade a long way.
Well im back in the land of the living down here with my pollution that you dont have, but i am certain of one thing i will be back

A brief note of appreciation for all the work you have done to make the Passport Scheme the success that it is. I fished 2 beats this weekend Llynfi Dulas & Beulah Cammarch and had the most marvellous time.
I drove home on Sunday afternoon feeling that these beats not only offered exceptional fishing but they also generated a great sense of well being from spending time immersed in nature and the beautiful British countryside. Catching wild brown trout was a great pleasure, made all the better by the knowledge that these fisheries had been repaired and restored.

We had a wonderful day at river Usk the 4. of May. It was
only just a little bit to warm and it affected our ability to catch a fish, we were quite active but the fish wasent. We still caught 5 nice trout, which we released. Four of them came from lower part of the strech, and one in the upper I do not remember the pools name. We saw though much more fish in the upper part pools. I will hopefully be able to come back one day and maybe try also for the king of salmonids.
With best regards to you and the staff around you, expecially Simon for good information about Fenni Fach

Yesterday,10 May 2006,I fished the Holme Lacy 3 Beat of the Wye, as per my booking and I am absolutely chuffed to bits to inform you that I had a superb fighting fit, bar of silver 11lb Hen fish on the spinner at about 3.20pm.
Colin Richardson, the Ghillie, was a really nice bloke and thoroughly knowledgeable and totally helpfull during my day on the River, and as per your suggestion, I rewarded him accordingly.
I made it clear to him what it meant to catch only my second Salmon ever, a memory that will never leave me.....he apparently was just as pleased to have seen me take the fish.
for your information,the fish never left the water,was NOT netted,and the lure released in the flow.....and I felt really proud to see it swim off strongly....with a good firm hand shake from Colin.
I hope that I will be booking some more Salmon fishing with you again soon......hopefully with the same fantastic result....

Thank you for sorting this out. We had two lovely days fishing with really nice weather. I picked up a lot of fish mainly trout with a few grayling on Ty Newydd fishing wet flies on the gravely run and my friends caught a few on dries. We returned all fish. We didnt catch anything out of the ordinary best trout was around 10 inches, but it was really enjoyable.

On Fenni Fach yesterday, I managed 2 trout, the best being 1lb and my 2 friends blanked. We all loved it though and I have to say that this could well be the most beautiful stretch of river Ive ever fished. The water was gin clear and I imagine relatively low. I could spot fish in some pools pretty large actually and I found that fish were easily spooked. On seeing rising fish, I would slowly wade into a pool without so I thought making too much of a din, yet the rises would stop. I fish the English chalk streams quite regularly so I know all about spooky fish, but these were especially wary. I couldnt raise any to dries despite using F-Flies and CDCs that work well for me elsewhere very challenging, but then thats the point I was broken in one pool by a really savage take to the wet fly looked a decent fish as I saw what looked like a very broad golden flash in the water as the fish took.

One suggestion for Fenni Fach it was quite difficult to follow the map and it would be great if there were signs by the side of some of the named pools just so anglers can tell where they are with a little more precision. They would obviously need to be of a design that would not look outlandish in such beautiful surroundings.

We will all be back, especially to Fenni Fach.

Thanks again and best wishes,