Feedback & Reports

So it happened that we were all home before dinner time. Tired after a long journey, but with lots of great memories of a fantastic fishing week in a beautiful countryside. And with a thankful feeling towards all those people that helped us make the most of our time in Wales. We will certainly return one day.

We would like to thank you and your colleagues for all the work you put into making the River Walk such an enjoyable day. My wife & I were on the "Wye Coach" with Stephen and felt it had been well worth the effort of comming down from Rotherham South Yorkshire. I am sure that we will see you again next year perhaps & hopefully be able to fit in some fishing in the meantime.

Just a quick email to say thanks to you and all involved at your organisation for a great day out on the Autumn river walk. I met some really nice people and the guides were very informative, knowledgeable and most of all very enthusiastic. Would you also pass on my thanks to the cafe we went to for lunch. The meal was great and I had to have a second helping. All in all a great day. Looking forward to the next day out.

Just wanted to thank you all for a superb day out yesterday - it could not have been better!

I just wanted to thanks those who organised yesterday out on the various rivers. These things do not work well unless they are properly planned and yesterday hit all the spots!!! I think we were particularly lucky in spotting so many fish, especially at the falls...... wow!

I am very keen to have a go on some of the waters on the Usk that we visited next season, particularly the Penpont fishery.

I have attached a photo that you might like of a salmon jumping..... you may already have hundreds|!!!!!

Just to thank the Foundation for organising an excellent and informative day out yesterday, my wife and I really enjoyed our first river walk. Please pass this along to Simon and his colleagues.

Just to say what an excellent day out it was. Thanks.

A thoroughly enjoyable couple of days. Will need to fish both beats again since I spent as much time walking and watching as I did fishing. The Irfon is particularly pituresque (even in the grey skies and driving rain - thank Snowbee for breathable chest waders!) and the grayling fishing excellent.

Thank you for your execllent organisation. This really is a great scheme - I have hardly scratched the surface of the fishing on offer (6 beats so far this year) and what makes it is not the fishing (which is excellent - I worked out that in five visits to one beat I am averaging a barbel every 45 minutes of fishing time - + at least one chub for every barbel - outstanding by my standards) but the beautiful Wye Valley and its wildlife. Thank you and please do keep up the good work.

Beautiful beat, wonderful setting. Found fishing tough - water was coming through pretty sharpish and wind was troublesome. Could have used some local expertise. Stayed at Caer Beris - excellent, could not be faulted. Excellent service from the foundation - efficient, friendly, helpful. I popped into Rods n Reels in Builth and received a freindly & helpful welcome although the guy in the shop had not heard of Gofyyne as a beat. However, very helpful.
Will be back.. muy appetite is whetted!

Fished the Llanfechan beat of the Irfon with I.M. 09:30 to 16:00

The weather was overcast with blustery north westerly wind. There was a little drizzle at times. The river was still low and clear. 10? on the gauge.

The fishing runs for about a mile between the top of Cefnllyswynne and Aberbwtran. The bottom is where the Hafrena stream enters. The first deep pool is the mud pool. I was fishing a leader with Klinkhamer, size 20 PTN and blackbeadhead caddis. I waded up and fished the streamy water taking 2 trout on the caddis nymph. I then noticed fish rising amongst the floating leaves in the eddies and swirls of the slack water of the pool, off to the left. I cast out and took 2 grayling on the Klinkhamer. There were medium sized (14 or 16) olives hatching off. I moved above the grassy island and caught another 2 grayling there. One took the caddis, probably on the lift, and was the biggest of the 4 grayling. The other took the Klinkhamer.

Little Glaslyn Pool had small grayling rising in its deep, smooth-surfaced tail. They rose at the dry fly but were too small to take it. I did manage to take one medium-sized grayling on the small PTN

Glaslyn pool is a huge deep pool. There were fish rising on the far side. I pricked one small grayling after taking a brown trout in the stream of the main current.

The last fish came from the Penrhw Gutter and again took the Klinkhamer (whilst my nymph was stuck on a rock ledge ! The wading here is a nightmare. The olives stopped coming off about 1 o?clock but small stoneflies and the odd caddis emerged in the later afternoon. It became increasing dark and rainy as the afternoon progressed.

My total 6 grayling and 3 trout

Ian took 3 grayling, 2 from the Mud Pool and one from Glaslyn.

The grayling were not big, the largest was just over the pound, but it was fun to see rising fish and catch them on dry flies in November. A wonderful beat with some challenging wading and tremendous pools; almost oversized for the Irfon.