Feedback & Reports

The sunniest day in the history of sunny days. I have successfully tanned a semi-permanent t-Shirt onto myself; but that would be today's only triumph! Water looking absolutely lovely for the coming days.. today was 1'11 on Llanstephan gauge and falling, with a medium tinge, running through pretty warm at 12 degrees. Spring about ready to burst into full swing on the Upper Wye.

3 Trout

Three rods fishing fly and spinner. River high and wading a challenge due to the fast flow. Caught the tail-end of a March Brown hatch in the morning, which yielded one trout. Two more trout in the afternoon on a SHFC, with a salmon also briefly attaching itself before letting go.

3 Trout

Perfect fishing day sun with high cloud, river good height 2'1" and falling, good clarity but on the cold side 44 degrees. Expectations high but no Salmon caught or seen, some descent March Brown and Olive hatches and the surprise catch of a relatively silver 1 1/2 lb sea trout on the fly at the end of an enjoyable days fishing. Fishing the Chapel catch gutter was slightly tricky at this height as my brother and myself both have descent studded boots but at times were being slid along the bedrocks by the strength of current so caution needed in higher flows I'd say!

1 Trout, 1 Sea Trout

Fished top half for a few hours after work, river 2ft and clear. Nothing doing in Dolmeudw or Orchard. Whilst fishing end of Orchard a big fish showed on the Llanstephen side down by the croy. Fell in trying to get a few extra yards of wading in order cover it with a fly!

1 Trout

River had risen bit but conditions were still pretty good. My first visit to this beat so it was a bit of a recky day. Some lovely fly water but sadly no fish seen or caught

Fished the length of the Chapel catch. River up and pushing through, but decent clarity. Should really have been spinning as despite the fastest sinking set up I had it was still barely 2ft down on the inside. No sign of any salmon. A few March Browns spluttered off around 12.15 but nothing rose to them.

Managed to fish before river came up, no joy

First outing this year. River at exactly two feet on the Llanstephan gauge and running perfectly clear. From noon to about 4pm no fish were contacted but then DD had a a couple of light takes followed by a small grayling to hand. JD then had a few positive bites before landing a 12” grayling. Fish were more active for the next hour and both anglers contacted and lost larger fish including one that looked about 18” as it broke the surface (and leader). Both anglers were fishing weighted nymphs on point with an unweighted fly on a dropper and it was the droppers that seemed to attract the fishes attention (with JD’s grayling coming to a Hancock’s Pet).

2 Grayling