Feedback & Reports

Thank you for sorting this out. We had two lovely days fishing with really nice weather. I picked up a lot of fish mainly trout with a few grayling on Ty Newydd fishing wet flies on the gravely run and my friends caught a few on dries. We returned all fish. We didnt catch anything out of the ordinary best trout was around 10 inches, but it was really enjoyable.

On Fenni Fach yesterday, I managed 2 trout, the best being 1lb and my 2 friends blanked. We all loved it though and I have to say that this could well be the most beautiful stretch of river Ive ever fished. The water was gin clear and I imagine relatively low. I could spot fish in some pools pretty large actually and I found that fish were easily spooked. On seeing rising fish, I would slowly wade into a pool without so I thought making too much of a din, yet the rises would stop. I fish the English chalk streams quite regularly so I know all about spooky fish, but these were especially wary. I couldnt raise any to dries despite using F-Flies and CDCs that work well for me elsewhere very challenging, but then thats the point I was broken in one pool by a really savage take to the wet fly looked a decent fish as I saw what looked like a very broad golden flash in the water as the fish took.

One suggestion for Fenni Fach it was quite difficult to follow the map and it would be great if there were signs by the side of some of the named pools just so anglers can tell where they are with a little more precision. They would obviously need to be of a design that would not look outlandish in such beautiful surroundings.

We will all be back, especially to Fenni Fach.

Thanks again and best wishes,

Wonderful day yesterday, lots of brown trout around, but we are still too hopeless to catch anything.

A hot day! few grannom mainly egg laying. Only sporadic rises Caought only 4 fish three at 1lb lots of misses. I tried nymphing but not a touch. Small dry blue dun was best. bailiff reported fishing had been difficult this season. The other 3 anglers there had no luck at all. It is a lovely stretch, very easy access and wading and I shall ceratinly go again.

Had great day on Penpont, lovely stetch of river.

No real hatch during the day (Cold down stream wind in afternoon), but delighted to see how much life there was under the stones in the river, March brown nymphs in abundance, and lots of Stone flies (Think these were Yellow Sallys?) plus a few Yellow May nymphs.

Caught 6 fish in total upto 12 inches. In morning on size 14 Stone Clinger nymph and two fish later in day on dry Kilkhammer ( Was only dry I could get fish to come too).

Just to let you know I had a rather lovely days fishing on Friday. The river was up and rising slowly, but still fishable. I did't catch a huge number of fish but they were all a good size, although nothing over 2lbs.
Thanks again

We had a great days fishing on Saturday. The river was in perfect condition and the grayling were very obliging. We caught approx 20 fish ? all returned obviously ? with 3 14in and 5 12in, the balance were mainly 8 to 12 inch fish.

Most fell to dry flies ? Tupps, Klinkhammer etc, and a few to PT nymphs. One trout at 10in was also returned.

I?ll be in touch soon to book another day before the cold weather arrives.

A lovely days fishing in excellent company. MB opted to fish the dry fly and ended with 14 grayling and 1 out of season trout whilst TP fished nymphs and took 10 out of season trout and 1 grayling. What an interesting result! The grayling were clearly looking upwards whilst the trout had their heads down! The weather was fairly kind with a mild overcast day just occasionally interrupted by a stiff late afternoon breeze.

12 Trout, 15 Grayling

managed to catch 8 decent grayling all returned largest I guess 1.5lb. River seemed odd? Can't really describe it
didn't see a fish rise all day and only one kamikaze parr took fly
I still really enjoyed day and love the variety that each stretch offers. I find it interesting that each beat is so completely different in every aspect from depth, layout of pools and flow,make up of bottom plus where else could you go for a days fishing and have the RAF turn up to fly lowlevel( i swear the harrier jet clipped the trees on his turn into the valley!)
thanks
will phone soon for next trip!

Fished yesterday which was the re-scheduled trip from week before. Found it difficult with the fly rod due to the high bank and trees but managed two fish from the salmon pool.
First was a grilse about 4 lb on a flying `c` and later I had my first fly caught atlantic salmon (had pacifics) a cock fish about 12 lb. Both fish coloured and returned but made the trip a memorable one.

..... I managed my best bag of grayling in over a year on Sunday on the Irfon, on the bottom beat of the Cammarch Hotel water. The day was made special before I even began though, as what I thought was a rock downstream of me began to move and to my surprise was an otter, occasionally sticking his head out of the water as he swam upstream past me. Unfortunately this was too quick for me to get my camera out and get a photo, but I guess it's a good indication of the head of fish in the river. Anyway, I managed to bag a total of 18 grayling (and one out of season brownie) from the long straight downstream of the railway bridge in about 5 hours fishing (down once on the nymphs then back up twice on dry fly): one fish came to a GRHE and all the rest on various shades of klinkhammers (dark and light grey and tan all seemed to work). I was forced into the changes as a few stray back casts left the flies in unreachable branches, but it was a relief to see my favourite dry fly working again after the blank at Clochfaen a couple of week previously. I was also surprised by the high percentage of fish over the pound mark - at least 5 by my estimation, with one possibly nudging 1 3/4lbs, and they all fought really hard into the bargain.