Feedback & Reports

Myself and a friend fished the Upper Taf Fawr today. River was running very low and gin clear as you would expect with the lack of rain. Plenty of fly life, bwo's, ldo's and even the odd few brook dunns still. we managed to catch half a dozen fish each on single dry fly/Klinkhammers picking pocket water.

Fished from 9am on a nice stretch of the Taff. All very pleasant but no tugs, takes or bites of any description. Not one to give up, I decided to try the Taf Fawr. Unfortunately, (unless your a local) access to the river is difficult. Specifically, the road is high above the river, private land in between and the land around the river from dam road is private too. Therefore even though several miles were available, I fished only a little. Something of an unproductive day.

Very difficult to find a good spot/location. Did circle for several hours to find a parking place and spot to start fishing. GPS coordinates can do a better job. Did catch 2 trouts with nymph. Nothing on dry flies. Around 5pm it started to rain. Would recommend it only if better info/GPS co-ordinates are provided.

2 Trout

Managed a good couple of hours on the Taf Fawr today. Stream is very low and clear so fished a single dry fly/klinkhammer in the pocket water and fast/oxygenated runs and managed to catch 2 dozen small fish up to 3/4lb.

24 Trout

Fished the runs from Rhydycar up through Merthyr Town this evening. Not much fly life around until around 19:00 when a large number of bwo's came off the water and fish started rising and put a single dry fly on. Caught two dozen fish ranging from 1/4lb up to 2 1/2lb. Out of the two dozen fish only 1 stocked around 1lb, otherwise all wild fish.

24 Trout

Fished top section upstream from A465 to Ponstcill. Beautiful river. 10+ Wild brown trout to 5oz. Amazing condition with fantastic colours. Totally absorbing! Will be back.

10 Trout

Dry fly was the best method, I landed both wild fish and stocked fish on this method.
River looked nice and clean, all but the exception of a bike in the Daggers Pool.

20 Trout

Fished the runs through Merthyr Town. Very urban part of the river but plenty of wild fish to nymphs and dry fly up to 2 1/2lb.

High amount of different flies rising. Not one trout seen even mooching along several miles of fishing. Very disappointing.

With Pontsticill reservoir over flowing now is the time to fish our upper Taff beats. The Taf Fechan fishes well on downstream wets when the reservoir is over flowing. Use small flies 16 or below.