Feedback & Reports

Weather cold and wet. Access to the water was limited and difficult in most places, down steep banks straight into 4-5 ft of water. There is an open stretch near the bridge (about a mile from the beat entrance), with easy access.

WUF note: Access, several new steps and beat maintenance work is planned for this beat within the next 10-14 days.

Caught on wet fly, all returned.

3 Trout

Caught on wet fly, 1 fish taken.

12 Trout

1ft on the Brecon gauge but seemed quite lot of water coming through and slightly coloured. Fished evening ticket from 5-8pm and greeted with some sporadic rising fish in the light breeze. Covered carefully (large Grey Wulff) they all took freely. Any clumsy moves soon spooked them.
Very pleasant evening after all the recent rain but not that warm. 5 trout 8-12inches. Largest taken. All went very quiet soon after 7pm.

5 Trout

River quite high and coloured. Our first visit to the beat. We found the beat details lacking, no pool names on the map and few marked `getting in` places; however the water looked promising despite the colour. We caught eleven trout including one of 1.5lbs, and two of 1.25lbs. The rest were between 0.75lbs and 1lb. We lost at least as many fish as we caught. 50/50 dry fly and nymph. Altogether an enjoyable day's sport.

11 Trout

An hour's fishing in the evening - booked in the expectation of a warm summer's evening... well it only rained for half the time and the river had just about fined down to be fishable. 4 good sized fish in 5 mins from the top to a size 16 bead head PTN around 8pm. Lots of flies around the bank / field. On the right day, this must offer cracking sport.
(On a separate note, there seemed to be a lot of an invasive plant (the reddish stemmed one) along the length of the beat and creeping into the corn field).

4 Trout

A hot sunny day and a beat with little cover had me struggling. Not helped by having to return to yesterdays beat to retrieve my fly box from the riverbank (I was tired!). I started late morning. Just a trickle of Olives and a couple of Yellows. Not a rise seen in five hours. Disappointed with myself for probably fishing the wrong time of day for the weather conditions? An awkward nil return!

The weather and river levels were perfect but there were only a few small hatches throughout the day so we searched for the fish with nymphs and finished with 7 trout to 1.5lb. The otter is still resident in the top pool but we were happy to share the fishing!

7 Trout

The water was lovely, with runs and pools as described in the Foundation's booklet, but the access to the water was difficult in most places due to trees and high banks. Not the easiest of beats for anglers in their seventies with stiff knees.
Having said that, the fishing was wonderful with plenty of rising fish in the deeper water at the bottom of the beat, which responded well to a Dog's Body. We could fish in comfort sitting on the bank. We kept the best two (a pound and a quarter and a pound) for supper and the 5 we put back were all about three=quarters of a pound.

8 Trout

A lovely day out. There weren't a great many flies hatching and it was only later in the day that I started getting takes in the streamy water. It was great fun but I had no fish!