Feedback & Reports

[I fish this on the Merthyr Tydfil AA ticket, but it's also a WUF water] 2 x wild brown trout, 10 inches and 17 inches, on size 16 Grouse and Claret. Fishing the lee shore at dusk, step and cast, with a light line outfit. The reservoir is low, so it's rather muddy along the shoreline at the moment.

6 chub on sweetcorn to 4lbs and 2 barbel to 5lb on pellet taken later in the day. I helped land a good barbel for the other angler booked on. Very plesent day away from work. Thank you.

I booked 3 days' coarse fishing on Lower Carrots and Luggsmouth for 28-30 June. You asked for a catch return.

28th June. I shared the beat with P.M. I had 3 barbel and some chub: best barbel about 8lbs. I gave up my swim to Mr M, as I was quite content.

29th June - I had the beat to myself. I caught 9 barbel, mostly between 4-6lbs. I gave the swim a resy mid-way through the day and caught chub, one after another, between 3/4 and 3lbs.

30th June - I went home - another day's fishing would have been an anti-climax!

A few comments: access is no problem, but you should stress that egress is extremely dangerous, with no visibility to the road whatsoever. Commuter hours are worst. It would have been very wet indeed to make it difficult to cross the field, which is level sheep pasture. The downstream field is much the better fishing, having more holding pools.

Will you thank the man who delat with my phone booking please, I thinmk he was called Seth (but I'm getting old, doddery and forgetful). The beat really suited my needs as access to the river was easy all along the stretch. I asked about B&B and he told me to stay at The Bowens (no choice!) and it was most satisfactory.

Thanks to the Wye & Usk Foundation, you do a great job.
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WUF note: the exit from the field back onto the busy road is blind and can be dangerous. Please take every caution.

A warm sunny day, a beautiful river and four trout caught ... beats watching England play! Two smaller ones (8-9") came mid morning and two larger fish late afternoon - the first 13", the second 15". Not much hatching; the odd mayfly and olive, but no quantity. A few fish rising, but infrequently and hard to tempt ... at least with my skill level. Tried various patterns through the day, but all fish came to a Greenwells.

1 x trout 9 inches. I had thought to escape the heat by a trip up the Honddu valley into the Black mountains, but it didn't really work out. Nothing much hatching and nothing rising plus low water.

Low water, very few fish rising ...bright sunshine for most of day......nil caught except fingerlings......but what a beautiful stretch of water.

2 rods, 6 chub, river very very low, weather baking hot. We arrived later than expected, hour delay on motorway (thanks highway agency for not telling us you closed the motorway). Still a great day, enjoyed every minute of it and we will return soon. Yet again a big thanks to the Foundation and Mr Boney who was very willing to meet us at 4.30am. Glad we didn't get him out of bed, after the delay.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling.

While the fishing was hard due to the bright sun we both had a great day on the Wye and two other roving voucher beats that we also tried over the weekend.

We will most definitely be back before the end of the season. Thank you for all your hard work in opening up this wonderful fishing and countryside at a great price!!

Despite blisteringly hot conditions we had a good day at Ty-Newydd. 3 of us being novices took advice from the one very experienced rod in our group. Between us catches were 14 grayling at around 7 inches and 5 salmon parr, 4-5 inches.
These were all taken either on size 18 black spider pattern, size 16 olive nymph and size 16 gold head gold ribbed olive pattern.

This was our first outing on the river and we were most impressed. Thanks loads to the W&U Foundation.

9 barbel to 8lbs 9oz, handful of chub to about 2.5lbs. We think we would have had many more barbel but there was an angler on the opposite bank right were we had planned to fish!

In all the fishing was very good given the bright sunshine and very low water conditions. I would just say that the lower part of Caradoc beat (downstream of suspension footbridge) was extremely busy when we visited with numerous swimmers picnicers dog walkers BBQs and of course canoeists – all were quite polite but I would recommend that this stretch is best fished during the week rather than at a weekend!