Feedback & Reports

Well, I waited out till half eleven , on the starting blocks, the heavy rain didn't really transpire into anything huge !! An hour of drizzle at most ....so, kit in the truck, packed my mobile Sunday lunch in a cool bag, A tuna and onion sarnie and a banana, and got going .... pulled in at the bottom Llanddewi Parkng area , twas no one there... yaaaaaayyyyy.... tackled up, still overcast and cool, reading twelve degrees in my trucks dash ......
Initially slow, got to the river at midday,but actually surface sport soon picked up by quarter to one ...some sun too !!! Sedge and some BWOs about ... saw one mayfly too !!! Fab fun for the full, slow wade of four and a half hours .... water clear this year ... I wonder if the chicken farm higher up the system, has had a warning about the chicken pooooooo !!!
There's just not the usual dead algae, thick and stinking on the rocks .... tis nice to see ... I've had some recces without the rod this week, just a walk, watching fish feed, kick samples etc etc ... I've masterd this river.... All the wild streams are stuffed with trout , my suggestion to a newbie on the streams , pluck any one out of the air, go and give it a bash, ..... Everyday is a school day .... but I think, alas I've cracked the Ithon !!!! Especially this beat, when fish feed, honey holes, favourite runs etc etc ..... you gotta keep plugging away on a river to learn from it !! Anyway fifteen made it to the net today, all on tiny Para dries and f flies..... Usual stamp for here, but fat like fish ... between six and ten inches ... great fun on the dries , and a few feisty salmon parr too.... Didn't see Mr.Mink..... I still have to thin him out for the farmer !!! Anyway homeward bound and maybe a scoop of Inchs Cider in The Crown ....lol !!!

15 Trout, 4 Other

2 smallish brown trout to the net, a further 2 distance released
Wet fly

2 Trout

River very low and clear, Blank! Although a few rises spotted by the bridge at the top of the beat. Parking at the top of the beat using the car park is very easy. Using the grass verge / “lay-by” on the mid and lower beat was too tight so ended up parking elsewhere and walking to the river.

1 Trout

12lb Slightly coloured salmon caught on cascade

1 Salmon

3 Brown on worm safely returned and 3 Rainbows on spinner

6 Trout

Great day on the chub again today.... Not what I was fishing for but they do keep you occupied and put up a hell of a fight.... Only the one barbel around 2lb but had alot of chub around the 5lb mark.
A few heavily spawning!!!!! (so please handle with care).
Using using cage feeder (brown crumb) with cheese, meat, bread, corn, pellet, small pop ups as hook bait. The chub took anything that was on the hook...
Great day again.
And an eel!.

1 Barbel, 44 Chub, 1 Other

4 Chub

1 Chub

Beautiful as ever.

2 Barbel, 75 Chub