Feedback & Reports

River Wye was very low and crystal clear. Weather was cloudy/sunny at times throughout the week, ideal for fishing as far as we were concerned.

One of the best weeks fly fishing on the Wye to date.

Thanks for the recommendation to fish at Abernant and Llyn Elm. We will definitely fish these 2 stretches again, especially Abernant.

Tuesday Sept. 29th. Fly Fishing at Abernant.

Fred: 3 grayling to 1lb 8oz. & 4 small Brown trout to 8oz.
Terry:5 Grayling between 3/4lb & 2lb 2oz.

Wed 30th Sept. Fly Fishing Llyn Elm.

Fred: 6 Grayling best 1lb 12oz. ( a P.B.) & 6 small Brown Trout to 8oz.
Terry: 5 Grayling best 1lb 5oz. & 4 Brown Trout best 1lb 2oz.

Thurs 1st Oct. Bait Fishing at The Warren/Sheephouse.

Fred: 5 Barbel to 4lb + 1 Eel 2lb + 1 Chub 4lb + 3 Brown Trout. (Best close to 3lb all returned safely) + 2 Minnows.
Terry: Blanked.

Friday 2nd Oct. Bait Fishing The Warren / Sheephouse.

Fred: 2 Grayling best 1lb 10oz. & 6 Trout (all safely returned).
Terry: 1 Grayling. 1 Barbel 4lb 14oz. & 4 Trout (all safely returned)

Sunday 4th Oct. Fly Fishing The Fly Run at Builth.

Fred: 1 Chub 4lb 2oz. & 1 Trout( safely returned).
Terry: 5 Grayling. 1@ 2lb 4oz and best at 3lb1oz ( a P.B.) & 4 Trout (best 2lbs + all safely returned).

Monday 5th Oct. Fly Fishing Abernant.

Fred: 7 Grayling to 1lb 8oz. & 4 Small Trout (all safely returned.)
Terry: 3 Grayling to 1lb 10oz. & 5 trout (all safely returned).

Regards to all at the Wye & Usk Foundation. Thanks for all your help and excellent advice once more, see you all soon.

A beautiful warm autumn day on the Wye. The river was in fine fettle and the chub liked my spam. Caught 6 to 4pounds 10 ounces.

Excellent service, very nice people to deal with.
Fished for 7 hours and only had a couple of knocks in the last half hour. Blanked! Did see someone fall in which cheered me up.

Cold wind blowing upstream and rain threatening but failing to appear! River looking good after some water last week but fishing quite hard going. A dozen fish between us - mostly grayling of about 1/2lb plus a couple of similar brownies. One grayling of 1 3/4lb. All taken on small nymphs fished upstream. Many thanks to WUF team who managed to direct us to the river!

SW: Had 8 Grayling & 1 Trout all on a small copper john.
PT: Had 3 Grayling & 1 Trout on small goldhead and flashback PTN. All fish returned.
Grayling were mostly good sized,in range 10-12 inches with one in the region of 15 inches+. A great day fishing.

10lb Hen Salmon, caught on size 10 Alley Shrimp at top of Abernant Stream. Coloured fish safely returned. Fish caught within 10 minutes of starting to fish, nothing for the rest of the day.

The Foundation were exceedingly helpful and look forward to returning next year.

10 x grayling to 15 inches; 5 x out of season trout to 14 inches. I'm always impressed by the average size here - more than half the grayling were 14 inch fish. Lost one of those big Irfon trout after a couple of jumps - a fish which certainly impressed me. Traditional grayling wets and a few on dries.

Usually fishes well on low water, as today. 12 x grayling, a nice average size, the majority of them over 14 inches and two at 16 inches, on north country spiders. 9 x out of season trout, mostly small, except for an almost black cock fish of 13 inches.

The first time I have fished Mortimers Cross and, with 1.7 miles of bank, plenty to go at. Some oh so enticing pools in the top two meadows - which I studiously ignored as I made my way down to the bottom of the beat on a lovely autumnal morning. Plenty of action as I moved back up river with around a dozen Grayling and 3 unseasonal Trout. Nothing of any great size with the best Grayling probably just about going 1lb. All on the same gold headed PTN.

Other than some small fish - and I mean small - which were taking drys, by the time I got back up to the top two meadows, as far as I could tell, the oh so enticing enticing pools were devoid of fish. Mind you, it was very bright by then with the bottom visible even in 6 feet of water - it might have been a different story if I had fished them in the morning (when there was a bit of cloud cover). A couple of nice Trout from the pool below the bridge before an early finish to beat the Worcester traffic.

1 Chub 3lb 6 oz on Halibut paste & 5 Barbel to 9 lb all on Halibut pellets. (2 rods)