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Thanks for your help and advice for our first visit to the River Wye which turned into one of our best fishing trips ever! The countryside and river was beautiful and the wildlife was amazing Owls, Hawks, Falcons, Kingfishers and a Otter to top it all (Heaven). We caught 36 Barbel to just under 9lbs and numeus Chub to nearly 5lbs over three days between the two of us, all returned safely. Also being keen on photography it was great to be able to take a break from the fishing and photograph the natural surroundings. It was such a pleasure to be able to spend some time on a river that is not over fished and in such good condition, your work is greatly appreciated.

I tried to access fishing on Llyn Bugeilyn, but with the recent rains found that the track wasn't suitable for normal road vehicles, there were lots of large pools and water running off across the track. I went quite a way down then chickened out as I was afraid that if it rained again that it would make the return journey even more hazardous. Not having local knowledge I didn't know how deep the pools were, and although I tested some by walking in, I wasn't sure if they would become impassable.You might like to point out the difficulties of negotiating the track in a mail or in the next booklet, although you say the track is rutted I didn't expect it to be that bad.

I was a bit disappointed as I had travelled from Northampton early that morning, but the beauty of the passport system means there is usually a viable backup and all was saved by a good day on Rhyader AA Craig Goch where I caught six brownies, all around/over 10" and one to 1.5 lb on Bibio and Olive Bumble.

Keep up the good work, will be back soon.

Numerous small brown trout and one grayling at Gofynne on the 11th July 2007.

One hen salmon approx 9 lbs and one cock salmon approx 13 lbs caught on a rapala in the gullies at The Rocks on the 12th July 2007. Both fish returned safely to the water.

Many thanks for a great time.

Hope to come back soon.

Just a quick not to say thanks so much for your advice last Wednesday. My friend and I went down to Penpont and had a very successful evening. There was a rise for Olives going on at about 4pm when we arrived but this tailed off a bit and all went pretty quite for a couple of hours. As the evening went on fish began to head and tail in small pods of about 2 or 3 fish - some quite large. I caught a couple of beauties on size 18 F flies and then some more on olive emerger patterns as the light began to fade. For about half an hour before dark we had excellent sport taking several fish that pushed the 2lb mark and lost a couple of other more substantial fish.

The following morning we had an early start on Glen-a-afon (I think this is how you spell it). Anyway we had a great day. Early morning (c. 6.30am) there was a decent rise underway for - I think - spent olives. That tailed off and then everything went quite. Looking for a change of tactics we put our dry flies and small nymphs away and switched to a 3 fly Czech nymph set up. This change was met with immediate success and we proceeded to catch a number of fine trout up to around 2lb. Again, we lost some larger fish that must have been 3lb+ (but I suppose we will never know.....). Are sea trout partial to the occasional Czech nymph if it is swung strait into their mouth???

Anyway, really just wanted to thank you for persuading us to come down from Oxford. We had a brilliant 24 hours of fishing.

I fished the Wye 5 days last week & both Chub & Barbel were feeding well. My son & I had chub to 5lb + and barbel of 7,8,9 lb & in one session two doubles of 10lb 2oz & 11lb 12oz.

Brilliant.

We had a great day yesterday on the Upper Usk. about 17 fish between us from all over the beat. Biggest just over a pound. Great hatches of fly (tons of different species, which was only dampened by the rain in late afternoon). Also lots of small fish visible in river. Good sign all is healthy.

5 trout best 1?lb. 1 grayling all fish returned. Fished for 2hours Cool and cloudy with hardly any fly hatching or fish rising. All trout on nymph grayling on dry fly. A delightful stretch of water.

Once again sincere thanks to all of you at the Foundation, you're a godsend to reservoir anglers like us who don't have access to game rivers here in the Midlands. In the words of good old Arnie, we'll be back. Speak to you soon.

Just a note to thank you for your efforts in organising the fishing day yesterday. We had a wonderful time, everybody caught fish and Louis and Rich were great guides and excellent company.

I will have no hesitation in repeating the event next year.

I had a great time on Saturday. I did not manage to get any more trout - I got a number of fish to rise but for some reason my ability to hook them disappeared. I moved down to the Ty-mawr pool later and realised my ambition to catch a shad! I called it a day when I had caught 4. I found the best bit about fishing for them was seeing them mob the fly - very exciting in anticipation of the take. Many thanks for putting me on to the pool - I would never have chosen to fish there by myself, I was under the impression they tend to hang about in streamy water.