Feedback & Reports

Quite a cold day. Could not see any fish rising and found access to the river very difficult in many places. No fish, just not our day. Would not return until access is improved

It’s 40 years since I last wet a fly, other fishing styles have predominated since then, but even so I managed an impressive nine trout on a Gilt Head Nymph, all four to eight inch, on this testing little water. There are larger fish, I saw quite a few but in slower/deeper pools that I could not get my fly down to quick enough. Lesson learned!
Two hours plus and I was still only half way upstream from the ‘Go’….. My back is now killing me, I’m too old for crawling about on gravel banks, but will be going again soon.
In my humble opinion, this venue will improve with use. It’s great to fish virgin water but there are a lot of frustrating snags and obstacles. Not in the water so much as on the banks, loose dead vegetation for the most part, you know how annoying that can be, but this would be reduced with more ‘traffic’.
Also, I’m not sure if it warrants four vouchers when compared with other venues I’ve looked at but I await a more experienced anglers point of view.

Good hatch of fly, no sign of fish anywhere?

Cold and windy day on Talybont Reservoir, no fish caught or seen. Windy conditions made casting difficult and very little insect activity. Nice to be out on the water, however I could only tolerate a few hours in the cold and wind.

Water low and very clear with very little activity, I saw one rise all day. Even when there was a smallish hatch around 1.00 p.m. the trout showed no interest. Let's hope for a bit of water and higher temperatures.

Sadly a blank for both of us, no worries, we will be back.

1 small brown trout approx 4 inches. Shame about the cattle repeatedly crossing in several places.

Apologies, this report is very late. Unforgivable. No fish caught. Cold westerly kept the hatch to a minimum. When the wind dropped there were small but steady hatches of LDO. No fish sighted apart from small fry in the shallows. River very low and clear. A difficult day!

1 out of season grayling caught and one lost. Both on Copper John. Sunny day but didn't see one rise as I fished upstream for about two thirds of beat. Coppicing is good on lower part of beat. Saw pair of mink about 100m from confluence end of beat - they were happily playing in the water/running up and down the bank across from me as I fished!

Have had a couple of enjoyable lunchtime sessions on the home turf. LDOs from about 11.30 until 1.30 with trout and grayling rising. None with any consistency, given the trickle hatch, but enough to give away their locations. Some clearly taking duns but most not, so presumably on nymphs and emergers. Some seriously fit grayling and trout over a pound, and other smaller fish, taken on various LDO dun and emerger patterns. The sun on your back and spring is sprung - don't you just love it!