Feedback & Reports

1 Salmon, 3 Trout, 4 Grayling

A lovely day's weather for fishing - overcast, muggy, hardly any wind - but very little fly apart from a few small olives and the odd sedge. Few rising fish. We fished Tenkara, conventional, single, duo, nymphs, bugs and emergers. Had about forty grayling between us, mainly of 9-12" and a couple of 13", and just one nice trout. The majority of fish were taken on emergers, although most were not rising, so fish were certainly in upwards - looking mode. The rain that was forecast arrived in earnest at about 5.45pm and, after about half an hour's soaking, what interest fish had shown before then, promptly ceased.
A hard, rewarding and enjoyable day on a beat we both love fishing. However,from the standpoint of access along the eastern bank, and indeed the safety of visiting anglers once wetter conditions prevail, the upper part of the beat needs some serious and urgent attention. There is a large tree down blocking footpath access (towards the tail of the Abernant Stream) soon after crossing the fence line. This now poses a major obstacle. Of more concern, upstream of this, the bank has become seriously eroded and access has become hazardous with little room now for safely making one's way up the beat. You either choose to risk going over the edge or you try to breach the tangle of briars that are in now your way and risk shredding your waders. A few hours with a chainsaw and strimmer and the blockage could be removed and a safer footpath created. With the safety of WUF's clients in mind, we recommend strongly that this is cleared urgently given the popularity of this beat as we get into autumn.

1 Trout

Dry fly, black gnat and wet Czech nymph. River conditions clear, summer level. All fish returned.

1 Trout, 4 Grayling

18lbs coloured hen caught on spinner, another fish lost and one seen leaping. River at 1'4", 17C with some colour. Midday session with small rod produced a couple of WBT up to 10" on nymphs. Lovely day, thank you.

1 Salmon, 6 Trout

Evening on Abernant in what looked like good conditions as river dropping and clearing. However no sight or sound of Salmon.

4 small Trout - returned, river rising quickly by 1pm and the spate dislodged massive quantity of brown algae and lots of weed, unfishable by 4.30pm.

4 Trout

A lovely days fishing shared with a good friend. Like yesterday at Ty Newydd the fish were occupying the shallow, well oxygenated riffles and succumbed to small nymphs (size 16 & 18) fished in the French Nymph style. Nothing of any great size with the largest grayling at just over a pound or so. TP's catch comprised 10 grayling, 4 trout and approximately 20 parr whilst RG weighed in with 12 grayling, 9 trout and about the same number of parr.
Footnote ; the wading in the top half of the beat is very difficult but from the middle down to the end it is as easy as it gets on the Wye.

13 Trout, 22 Grayling

Very hot & sunny, low water - beautiful time for fishing but not for catching. Little activity from fish or flies, just a few olives & caddis about ... basically too sunny and too hot.
All fish returned safely but all small (10 grayling to 8" plus 2 to 14", 7 x trout to 8")

7 Trout, 12 Grayling

Bright sunshine and crystal clear water dictated fishing at depth. Accordingly, one lovely grayling to a goldhead PTN and two 12" trout to a weighted GRHE.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

Arrived late morning, weather fantastic, river conditions good. Plenty of fish rising and a good fly hatch. Both fly fishing, using mayfly, various others tried but the mayfly in June worked best! 5 landed, largest 14 inches, all returned. All in all a very good day to be on the river. Many thanks to the ladies in the office, as always extremely helpful.

5 Trout