Feedback & Reports

First visit to this stretch and overall disappointing despite good colour and river levels dropping, though mainly a result of poor choice of swims as we eventually found out from Colin just as we were leaving.
Lulled into a false sense of security, bites on 1st casts (typical pellet feeder approach), 3 chub and a barbel within 45 minutes suggested a bumper day and a good swim selection. Sadly that was it for the day with the remaining time spent in snags and lost terminal tackle, even managing to snap a rod (carelessness!)
Unfortunately when we did see Colin at 5pm and he advised of the hot-spots, my son who was on his 1st ever river fishing trip was not in optimistic mood so I decided it best to call it a day.
I will be back, lovely stretch, Colin a very nice guy and very helpful.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

3 rainbow caught using bubble float and worm.

3 Trout

Caught 6 rainbow trout between my son and I. caught 1 spinning and 5 with bubble float and worm.

6 Trout

1 Rainbow caught on float fished worm - slight wind, warm,
no fish seen rising throughout 6 hours fishing time.

1 Trout

All the fish caught were around 30cm in length and all caught using a feeder with sweetcorn on the hook. Lots of minnows at the edge. One chub and two carp. No luck with the float/controller. Water was quite cold. The dozen horses who arrived as part of a pony trek and had a splash around in the water didn't help. I wonder what other water they splashed through given that we're cleaning our waders every visit? Lovely day, beautiful scenery.

1 Chub, 2 Other

No trout, perch were a nuisance.

4 Other

A beautiful day on the Rectory. 1'4" at Llanstephan and very expectant with super clarity and cracking water. One trout of around a pound got the heart racing in the Mill stream but that was the only action of the evening. A superb beat with easy wading and very fishy pools. Until next time...

1 Trout

Guided for the day on the beat. Great days fishing again. It looked like the river had been up a 1m or so but had dropped back and was about 30cm up with good colour. Fished in the wooded section.
Fish fed throughout the day. Had two 8lbers with the larger one being 8lbs 15oz. Largest chub was 4lbs 6oz a new pb for customer. He hadn't caught a barbel before but now he is a converted Wye barbel fisherman. Thanks to the W&U Foundation.

9 Barbel, 9 Chub

First fish of the day was a superb 9lb 14oz Barbel caught by JA on double sweet corn. Another two Barbel were netted during the day with a couple of chub, biggest 3lb 10oz and an eel, all caught on either sweetcorn, pellet and meat. River had some colour after previous rainfall. All fish were taken on the feeder.

3 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

Weather overcast and dry, good conditions, river clear. 2 Small trout to 6 inches returned. The fishing was very hard, no rises, no fish seen. We thought this beat was rather expensive in the circumstances.

2 Trout