Feedback & Reports

A very convenient beat about 5 miles north of Brecon, with easy access and parking (sadly we saw a pool of windscreen glass in the car park so as ever keep all valuables out of site).

Really sunny day,decent hatch particularly from about 10.30 to midday. Excellent beat with lots of variety. Pretty simple wading for the most part. All three rods fished dry fly patterns all day - small and natural. 8 trout ranging from 5" to 2 hard fighting 14"ers. Such a beautiful day, spent far too much time on the manicured lawn enjoying lunch and savouring the day.

Probably a really good beat if you are fishing the area for the first time. It's a relatively gentle introduction to this terrific river system, with a good head of trout.

1 grayling (10"), 1 brown trout (12") both returned safely.
Nymph fishing in the morning and early afternoon produced 1 grayling plus several delicate takes by grayling but no brown trout. Minimal fly life until mid afternoon when the occasional mayfly, spinner or olive appeared.
Rising trout no where to be seen except in one flat 150 yd long section when I estimate a max of 10 fish could be seen rising. Finally caught one brown trout on a BWO and missed another. The pools provided no sport on nymph (GRHE, PTN) or dry fly. The river was in good physical condition and the weather was warm and bright. The scenery is spectacular. The access between bank and river is very poor - I lost count of the number of times that I had to crawl under barbed wire because there was no stile (following the path of previous anglers). I was wading whenever possible. Overall an interesting experience if slightly disappointing. The lack of visible fish and poor response to nymphing in the deeper pools was disappointing compared to earlier season reports.

2 small trout and 4 salmon parr. Trout to coch-y-bonddu.

3 Trout to 1lb caught and returned. Only fished lower part of the beat where good numbers of fish were evident but mainly feeding on small dead fly (spinners) which neither of us had a decent imitation of! Those we did catch took Ginger Quill or Tups. River condition was low and weather was hot and sunny.

5 x lovely trout to 14", 3 x Grayling to 16" caught on mixture of small tungstone hares ear nymph (with touch of sparkle)& small cdc,s & klinkers. Scorching day, fabulous beat. Fishing at its very best. Directions a bit vague for us dumb Devon boys!! Thanks to all at W&U for a memorable day.

An accessible beat offering a very pretty piece of water. Very hot day with a steady hatch for most of it - mainly olives and a reasonable amount of mayfly. 5 trout caught on small dry patterns - Adams / Klinkhammer (olive) - 5" to 10". 1 caught on the lower beat, 4 on the upper. All returned. Really enjoyable day, peaceful and remote.

4 x trout to 12". Still very hot and not much insect life about, but the odd one came up to a Klinkhammer.

Curiosities seen during the day were the biggest eel I have ever seen swimming past me (not a lamprey) and the trout I caught on the surface in the top weir pool which had something sticking out of its mouth. The object turned out to be the tail of a loach fully 4 inches long jammed in its gullet, the skin worn away by gastric juices, but the tail and barbuled head quite recognizable. (I tend to forget this now as we fuss about one fly or the other, but my experience as a lad fishing in brooks with a worm for the pot was that trout of any size in small rivers are usually making at least half their living from smaller fish). And, by the way, what a very beautiful place Mowley Wood is at this time of the year - huge fields golden with buttercups along the river.

Pete had 6 trout to 11" Cliff blanked.

We had a very pleasant day on the river last Wednesday. My cousin caught his first and second ever fish on the fly which pleased him ( one trout and one out of season grayling).

I had one trout of about a pound and five smaller trout plus a 3lb chub and one small grayling. All fish were returned to the water to fight another day.

Also fished the River Ithon Severn Arms water on Friday afternoon for a very short period of time before the heavens opened. Had three small trout and missed quite a few others on the dry fly. There appears to be quite a few small fish in the bottom beat of this fishery.

Hope to be up in your direction again in the near future.

25th of May
3 Trout all to just over the pound in weight taken on Klinkhamer extreme emerger patterns. Very few trout were rising until later in the day when mayfly and olives were emerging.

27th May
2 Grayling to about 1lb each and 12 Trout ranging from 9 to 14 inch. Initially they were taking the same emerger as the 25th but switched to drys, primarily mayfly and yellow may dun imitations. Plenty of heavy takes throughout the day. Overall an extremely enjoyable session.

Looking forward to booking this beat again in the future as it's a good challenging stretch.