Feedback & Reports

I started fishing at 14:00 and immediately could see why this beat has a reputation as a good trout fishing ground. Lots of varied opportunities including varied pools, ripples and runs. The temperature dropped overnight and the local fisherman I shared the beat with told me that this will affect the fishing for the day. There was a some activity, with the occasional rise, but the fish was not interested in any dry fly I presented. I switched to nymphing, but this did not improve my luck either. The river is beautiful. I saw kingfishers, birds of pray and even a decent size salmon jumping! I stuck it out till the evening rise, where I picked up a couple of nice trout, on a Parachute Adams. Glad to have finished the day on a catch. I will be back to fish this beat again in prime time.

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A really nice stretch of river easy to wade very tranquil. Lots of small fish rising caught 2 and released but missed a few.Good looking fish though.

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Fished for a few hours. Chilly and overcast. Nil catch.

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2lb 3oz, 1lb 10oz on dry fly.

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weather incredibly hot and bright so fishing difficult ,1 trout about 8 inches caught last thing on small red spinner

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Hot day, river levels reasonable but we felt that an additional 6" or so would have made the conditions pretty much perfect. Water clear.
We had come the night before to do a reccie and witnessed a good Brook Dun hatch and the river come alive between 8-9.30pm. Plenty of fish in the upper 'car park' pool.
Parking at the bottom of the field access, we started at around 9am. The two of us went down to the lowest pool first. The water further down from the pool to the bridge was accessible in one or two spots. The glides were deep, the flow was slow and the floor, a flagstone bedrock bottom covered in brown algae, looked potentially hazardous so we gave that a miss. Nymph fished the pockets and runs up the lower pool and got the best fish of the day - 2 x 2+lb browns. Both in perfect condition and fighting fit, plus other smaller browns.
Middle riffle produced a small trout around 6" and a small Salmon parr. The upper pool didn't produce anything sadly to either dry or czech nymph. You can't fish the riffle above as that is in the Dinas stretch as maked on the map.

The evening saw the previous evening's hatch begin dropping but the expected mad feed on spents didn't materialise as we hoped. Caught one more small trout and got smashed on a very decent fish on dry (Adams and March Brown). Saw some 1/2lb fish feeding on the nearside bank under the trees around mid afternoon, some with the reported white fungus on their snouts. They all seemed healthy and were very happy supping midges and spent Brook Duns off the surface.
Lovely piece of water, will come again. Thank you W&U for making this water available.

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