Feedback & Reports

A last minute booking and arrived at noon to a rising dirty river. First visit to this beat and pleasantly surprise with the variety of water. Not good for the fly today but gave it a go anyway, [time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted], and enjoyed groping my way down the section below the footbridge but didn't push my luck in the last pool, wading stick or not! Nothing on spinners either but I think I’ll try again another day when conditions are more favourable.

1 Trout

My first booking on this lovely stretch. Four or five fish showing at hut but dropping river did n't encourage them to chase a fly. A few chub to fly at bottom of beat. One fish came for fly just below surface but I think it was good trout.

3 Chub

Only fished late afternoon. No sign of the fish.

Weather hot and sunny. Fished the whole length of the beat. No fish seen. Several walkers with dogs, in the river, below the suspension bridge.

Only arrived at Caradoc at 1 o'clock by 4 had a 13lbs springer, a little colour probably been in the river for a week, did see fish running, they seem to be going straight up to higher reaches with good water levels, this is my 5th springer of the Wye in 3 weeks, happy? oh yes!

1 Salmon

Unfortunately we found the river unfishable. Murky water with no visibility.

Drove to the Wye through the snow! Fortunately the weather cleared and we had a sunny but cold day (3-9'C). Gauge at 2'9" which is on the high side for this beat, we were told by the owner. Water slightly coloured but not too problematic. We had 2 offers on the fly (sunk lines) and none on a spinner. Thoroughly enjoyed fishing this beat and we shall certainly give it another go!

1 Chub

Tree felling made vehicle access impossible. Likely to be so for about the next two weeks.
Fished fly & spinner. River high, good colour. Fishable.

No fish caught or seen but a pleasant spring day in lovely countryside.

An almost perfect spring day's fishing the lovely Caradoc beat. Hereford guage on 0.5m which seemed pretty ideal conditions for fly but I also fished a Devon minnow and flying c. Nothing caught or seen, with one other angler fishing the beat and more opposite also seeing nothing. The croys at top end fished well and I particularly enjoyed fishing the midstream rock above the links run and the links run into the bottom end pool, a midstream wade into the pool until it gets too deep. Saw a mink at bottom end of fishery. Thank you.