Feedback & Reports

Great days fishing on a beatiful beat caught many fish during the day. We caught Trout, Grayling, Dace, Chub and of course salmon par which were abundant. The trout were on the small side but fought well - 1 taken. Grayling were impressive best around 18 ins. 5 chub caught by the coarse rod best around 4 pound. We caught fish on dries and nymphs chub were caught using luncheon meat.

Only fished the Abernant section, didn't have enough time for the Plas Gwyn section. Had an excellent day - started off with a 3lb+ chub on an Adams first cast and then proceeded to catch 6 Brown Trout and 4 Grayling, all on the Dry. Very good beat, easy access and wading not too difficult.

Weather great and river looks awesome. Couple of things to suggest -

I would reccomend decent, hard wearing footwear as banks are very slippy, a minimum of 10ft landing net handle due to awkward landing of fish, TO ENSURE SAFE RETURN OF FISH CAUGHT WALK FISH TO THE NEAREST LOW BANK FOR RETURN...

Fish caught - 9 barbel to 8lb and 1 chub.

22nd June - brown trout, 3 kept ( 1lb, 3/4 lb, 3/4 lb) and 1 or 2 smaller 1/2 lb fish returned.

25th June - brown trout, 1 kept (3/4 lb) and 3 or 4 smaller (c. 1/2 lb each) returned.

Excellent and very enjoyable fishing. Very few rising fish and our efforts with dry fly ineffective. All fish taken on weighted nymphs ( especially gold head GRHE).

Many thanks to WUF for the very efficient booking system.

5 barbel all between 4 and 5lbs, 16 chub between 8oz and 3lbs. 'Jack' pike trying to hit leger weights! Most fish legering pellets, some chub on breadflake with crumb in feeder, some chub float fishing corn.

Beautiful piece of water, just the right balance between easily accessible swims and overgrown places to discover.
The man from the White Cottage came by for a chat and said a few anglers were concerned that he wasn't keeping the banks open enough. We told him that we enjoyed having to blaze a trail through nettles etc and that the bankside cover is really needed to hide your movements.

A great day, we'll be back...

Had a superb 4 hour beginners lesson from Frank Williams. In variously sunny and heavy rain conditions we landed a Chub (1.5lbs), 3 grayling (one of them 1 lb), and 4 small brown trout.

Due to a cold I was only able to fish the 26th June. Landed and returned two 18cm trout, lost another about 500gms in tree roots.

A fantastic location, my only complaint is that access is difficult because of the barbed wire skirting the river. There needs to be more points where the barbed wire is bridged to improve access. I am in my 70s and not as agile as I was. Nevertheless I hope to fish this beat again.

Total over the two days of 18 Barbel to 7 LBS 12 oz - Sweet corn & pellets - Trotting & Feeder tactics. Numerous Chub to 3 LBS. Numerous Dace.

Water redish brown on the 16th, clearing & dropping throughout the day, clearer & dropping still on 17th. Two good days fishing, no problems.

No fish caught but what a lovely first experience of the Foundation's waters will be back soon to try again.

5 Browns (all returned)

Was expecting great things today following a good day at Court of Noke on Tuesday but, Mowley Wood prooved to be a much more challenging piece of water. Bright sun - and high temperature - exacerbated matters. There were a few fish moving in the section above the weir during the morning but, anxious to explore the whole beat (it was our first time at Mowley Wood), we did not linger over-long on them. Not much happening in the section through the wood but a couple of fish from the deeper water by the top weir.

Back downstream after lunch. By now it was really hot but, there were fish rising to what I think were duns and olives. I cannot remember the last time I saw such inaccessable fish. Clearly, they has seen a few flies (most of which were still hanging from the various Ash trees) and were having none of it. We both became a bit preoccupied with these fish. After trying just about every imitation in the box, in desperation, I put on a big Grey Wulff (it wasn't quite the biggest in the box) and caught two fish - that had been studiously ignoring my best efforts with Adams, PWOs, Blue Duns etc - on my next two casts.

Another delightful piece of water - albeit a bit difficult in the middle section.