Feedback & Reports

Fantastic water conditions, beautiful scenery and, very soon after starting, a fish. Only an 8oz brownie, but the only contact all day. No salmon seen and the heavy afternoon rain and surface leaves eventually made me leave for home. Good to see today's report of 100 salmon moving up from the lowest beats...funny how they know that the fishing season is coming to an end.

1 Trout

First time fishing on the upper Wye, and what a lovely place it is too! A chunky trout of around 1.5lb got the heart racing for a few seconds but no sign of any salmon. Lovely Fishery, and if we get the right conditions next season, I will be back.

1 Trout

Fishing as a guest of the owner : 6lbs hen, and 13lbs hard fighting cock on small black fly on full float line.
My first return trip to the upper Wye since my May salmon capture and so encouraging to fish in the rain for a change. Well most of the pools up here have held salmon since all that winter and spring rain. Now with temperatures dropping and a small river rise, the salmon (as I write) are not yet running through, but beginning to think about it. My plan was to wade deep in the low river, and with a small black fly on a full floater fish the fast shallow(ish) heads of the pools. It's great fun and a tremendous asset, to use the exposed boulders to hold the line out there over the holes behind. Sure enough, right at the head of the ash tree pool a 6 pounder came to the net. Two hours later in the fast white water of the Aber Pool a very strong 13 pound cock fish fought all the way to the net. The Craig Llyn beat is indeed a wonderfully exciting place to fish for salmon, and I believe the upper river presently holds quite a few. Given one good spate there should be plenty to catch.

2 Salmon

Various heavy bugs and dries done well for us today. Also the duo produced some really nice grayling.

10 Trout, 20 Grayling

I spent the morning Czech nymphing the top pools and caught 3 Grayling and 1 Trout. Later on in the afternoon there was plenty of fish rising and caught a further 3 Grayling and 1 Trout on dries. Biggest Grayling went 1lb 12oz. All fish returned.

2 Trout, 6 Grayling

Caught on goldheaded nymphs.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

Three lovely conditioned Grayling all on a grey duster. Biggest about a pound.

3 Grayling

Six nice trout, all over 14 inches, best trout at least 2 1/2 lbs. Grayling c. 1lb. River low and clear, on a warm sunny day. All fish on small dries.

6 Trout, 2 Grayling

A great day on a lovely beat. A few fish came to upstream nymph very early on but most of the grayling were caught on a BWO pattern during a rise in the afternoon. The bulk of the trout were taken on a Kites imperial, an hour or so before dusk when the LDO put in an appearance.

9 Trout, 13 Grayling

Another dry warm day, but the flow was reasonable, perhaps because of releases from the reservoirs upstream. After a long chat with Oak, who runs the Doldowlod caravan park and is himself an enthusiastic angler, we set off for the river full of optimism. In spite of what appeared to be good conditions, however, we struggled to catch and the final tally for the day for three anglers was only 3 grayling and 3 trout, the biggest of each at about 13 inches. They were taken on small dries and nymphs. The beat, however, is set in stunning surroundings, well worth a trip.

3 Trout, 3 Grayling