Feedback & Reports

I had a fantastic day with Kim who's a great instructor - among other skills, he's got all the necessary patience and sense of humor to bear with the slowest learners. My fishing skills and my confidence (in my abilities, but also in the river holding loads of nice fish) received a huge boost on Sunday and this guiding day was a great investment! I'm looking forward to my next guided trip with Kim now... My catch rate increased 10-fold in one day! So my expectation now is that i'll keep this rate of 25-30 fish a day, and next time i go with Kim i'll top 300 fish, right? I've seen lots of recommendations for Kim on your website and I can add my voice to this
chorus: he's just extremely good at his job of making people understand and practice fly fishing better!

Thanks for all the advice!

Just a quick, belated, note to thankyou for all of your help. We all had a great weekend fishing the various beats and I am happy to say that everyone caught fish. Most had not fished the Wye before. Personally I caught my biggest ever grayling.

The beats were simply stunning and the campsite was great as well. I think that it would be fair to say that I would have really struggled without your help. The trip for next year is already being talked about....perhaps the Usk.

Thanks again,

I had a gorgeous days fishing [on the Usk] last Thursday 21st June......We had 10 fish between us, all on dry fly, and most of them in the evening. All were small - about 1/2 pound, with a few larger fish lost. All were returned. There was a reasonable hatch of little sulphur coloured mayflies which they were taking well throughout the day. Also had masses of takes on a gold head nymph during the day but couldn't hook anything with this approach. It's a gorgeous beat with loads of wildlife, and I hope to return to it soon.

Just a quickie to say thanks for remembering the waders!!!! Robin had a fabulous day's fishing...despite nearly being swept away in pusuit of a frisky trout!! He survived, but sadly his mobile phone is no longer with us!!!

Llangoed Hall was also divine - all in all a fab weekend. Thank you for your able assistance to a fishing virgin!

Just a note to say that I have just returned from a weeks holiday fishing around Builth with my niece and some friends. We fished two of your waters. The first was the Edw on the Hundred House beat see photos attached where it was tough going as the trout there seem to have developed telepathy My niece caught her first small stream brownie though 11inches and she was very chuffed. The other water we went to was the Usk at Sennybridge. This was one of most beautiful stretches of river I have seen. We caught plenty of small trout and lost a couple of proper uns. Traditional spider patterns worked well in the quicker water. Later on though the fish were driving us daft as there was a fall of anglers curse and we could only get takes on tiny Griffiths gnats. But a good time was had by all. Keep up the good work!

Superb Friday and Saturday 14 Shad caught on Gromain beat with a more than a few lost , trout to the dry fly in the evening up to 1lb with a bonus grayling well over 2 lb best dry fly blue wing olive best shad fly gold head damsel.

I fished the Fenni Fach beat on 02/06/06, really tough day weather wise brilliant sunshine, still managed plenty of offers only landed 4 trout.
1st trout 1/2lb, 2 around the 3/4lb mark and finally a cracking trout pushing 3lb on a size 16 parachute adams. All fish were returned, will definetly fish the Usk again very enjoyable hopefully better conditions next time.

Just to say we had a fabulous week. I had an enormous brownie at Fenni Fach. On for about 10mins before I lost it - 60cm He jumped many times and it was very exciting, so happy but also disappointed

I fished Dan-y-Parc yesterday WOW Its a fantastic stretch and the water was perfect. I managed 6 decent trout on the upper beat in the morning, the best going one and a half pounds. I started on the wet fly and caught the days best fish on my second cast, and then the fish started rising at around 10am. After a fruitless hour, I managed to pick one up on an elk hair dun imitation but as soon as I tried my trusty CDC Dun it catches fish anywhere when other patterns fail, I got a take from virtually every trout that I covered. I lost one cracker that was north of 2lbs as he tore off line into the far bank and came loose.

I got up to the Aberedw beat yesterday and whilst not as successful as your latest endeavours I managed 11 very pretty & feisty brownies in about 4 hours or so, all on various klinkhammers dark olive & brown mostly. I know I may get more on nymphs but I just get so much more fun out of catching them on dries. There was an amazing amount of insect life about too - brook duns, some enormous sedges, the odd yellow may dun and even a stray mayfly, but nothing appeared to be hatching as far as I could see.