Feedback & Reports

Very windy session 1230-1630
Introduced some friends from Bavaria to fly fishing at this superb location.
For complete novices in challenging conditions they fished well and were rewarded with 2 on the dry fly.

Beetle patterns

2 Trout

Early morning session due to extreme heat fished from 5am until 9am 3 chub in first hour then nothing until last hour when solitary Eel,no sign of any Barbel even though trying several swims in more oxygenated water.Groundbait feeder loaded with pellet and hemp and switching between meat and pellet on the hook,a big Thankyou to Stefan for all of the fantastic work he has put in in this fishery.

3 Chub, 1 Other

1 Chub

Too hot ? today dint want to stress the fish

Unable to fish, the water temperature was too high

4 Trout

Very disappointing day. Limited number of swims to fish due to out of control vegetation. When I finally got to the river, look very nice first thing in the morning. Caught a nice chub. At 10.00am the onslaught of canoes came along. 340 plus passed by, so I when to the pub. In no hurry to get back.

1 Chub

I started the day with a wonderful hike along the Four Waterfalls Trail with my wife. The scenery was so breathtaking that we completely lost track of time before heading to Talybont Reservoir, arriving at around 3:20 p.m.
As I have limited experience fishing reservoirs, and with the warm afternoon conditions, I wasn't expecting much. I fished for about an hour and a half but unfortunately didn't catch anything.
Even without a fish, the trip was absolutely worthwhile. The peace, tranquillity, and natural beauty of Wales made for a perfect day. Thank you for a wonderful experience—I look forward to returning again soon.

Good day on the brook – 24 trout and 1 roach. My first visit in nearly two years—time really flies! A late 10 a.m. start, with the air at 22°C and the water at 18°C. After a quick disinfectant spray and a check that the waders were still watertight, I was off.

The first pleasant surprise was that there weren't many dogs in the water. The second (and less welcome) surprise was finding people swimming and having BBQs along the beat! A few large trees have come down since my last visit, but otherwise the beat was in surprisingly good condition. If Oliver Burch has been responsible for keeping it tidy, he deserves a thank you from all of us anglers.

Water levels were low, leaving many of my usual hotspots high and dry. What puzzled me most was the colour of the water—it was brown and murky despite no recent rain. I later discovered swimmers at the upper limit and halfway along the beat, with the latter stirring up the riverbed and colouring the water downstream.

The coloured water led me to fish a larger fly (S12 Klinkhamer) with longer drifts. I switched to a nymph occasionally, but the dry fly consistently outfished it, producing 24 trout between 4 and 10 inches. The only fish on the nymph was a bonus roach.

Interestingly, the swimmers didn't seem to put the trout off—I caught several fish surprisingly close to them.

A cracking day overall, despite losing about a third of the beat to swimmers and dogs. I won't leave it another two years before returning!

24 Trout, 1 Other

Great day of fishing, 89 fish caught between 3 of us with some large fishing being caught

50 Trout, 39 Grayling