Feedback & Reports

Sunny intervals; no wind. Lack of recent rain means river back on its bones but at least the water is cold. No fly hatch all day and only a couple of rising fish. No success on the oxygenated flats and riffles with a nymph. Spent a couple of hours stalking visible fish in the deeper water. Stealthy approach essential, but only got one cast at each fish. Most frustrating! Good blackberry picking on the right bank!

6 chub, largest around 4lb, 1 small barbel about 2 lb. All immaculate fish caught in a beautiful setting. Fished upper part of the beat in faster water. Agree with some of the previous comments regarding difficulty with access but I also like the wildness that brings. Thank you for the opportunity of fishing such a fantastic stretch of river.

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

fishing was hard only 4 chublets all day, best about one pound. About half past five I decided to change beat and target pike and finished the day with a magnificent 25 pounder on a popper.

4 Chub, 1 Pike

3 Barbel, 4 Chub

4 Chub

4 Barbel, 5 Chub

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

Bright, river low, Northerly wind. 7 inch brown trout on tan klinkhammer

1 Trout

This a beautiful stretch of the Irfon and very quiet and private. we could access most of the water but due to the previous night's rain we didn't risk crossing to access the top section as we couldn't see how deep it was. The river was very coloured with a milky appearance when we arrived and stayed like that all day. Visibility was about 50 - 60 cm. This was most likely due to rain the previous night but it did make the fishing difficult with very little fly life and hardly any rising fish. The fish we did catch all came to a weighted nymph with a sparkle band would around the body. It was easy to find and the directions to the water were very straight forward.

5 Trout

Best days river fishing of my life fishing Caradoc. Easy to find, great access, beautiful stretch of river. Fishing here for 2 days, We started down at the end of the stretch & quickly caught a small chub on meat, which was soon followed by a 3lb 12oz chub on feeder & pellet. We shared the stretch with 2 other friendly anglers who had travelled from Holland & one of them fished upstream of us & we noticed that he was regularly catching good fish on the feeder. He was joined by his fishing partner who then started to float fish the same swim & again was catching barbel constantly. Around mid-day they decided to move upstream & advised us to have a go in the swim & told me how they were catching them. I set up a float rod with 5g olivette and fished over-depth & coaxed a 12mm pellet down the swim and had the best session of my life catching quality chub & barbel to 6lb on the float. Ending up with 17 fish,11 chub & 6 barbel, (15 fish from this specific swim). Beautiful weather & friendly horses came for a drink and a visit. River extremely low, we were fishing on the river bed about 10 yards in from the natural bank. Many thanks to the Dutch anglers who graciously shared the swim & advised us on their tactics.

6 Barbel, 11 Chub