Feedback & Reports

Another first in fishing this beat and the website description matches exactly….. beautiful and secluded…. and a good walk down hill to the river, followed by a trudge back up at the end of the session. Phew!
Anyway, stuck with duo today which saw 3 to the nymph and one to the dropper. Wading was a challenge, partly because it was a new beat and therefore unknown, but the bedrock undulations and deep gullies made it very interesting! Good job I brought the wading stick! Some nice glides where I took the fish. Probably didn’t cover the deeper gullies so well with duo, but still lovely to be out on another wild stream beat. The trout were stunning and the grayling (as usual) like a bar of soap to hold on to! Trout markings notably different to my local Arrow fish which have mire buttery hue and stunning red spots. Still special fish on the Irfon though.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

very cold until 1pm , water clear and running nicely , gold bead grhe , left at 1pm to take wife for lunch but it was good to be out and fishing,

2 Grayling

Fished 2-5pm
Spoke to the land owner who was very friendly and pointed me in the best way to get down to the river as it isn’t obvious from the map. If you followed the map you’d be fine but the land owner gave a slightly different route further to the right.

Beautiful bit of river surprisingly wide (30+m) in places
Two small graying to had with a nice size grayling lost after it jumped.

2 Grayling

1 Chub, 1 Other

1 Trout

A quiet, still & rather grey afternoon, brightened by autumn colours. Couldn’t locate the larger grayling.

1 Grayling

Great stretch of water, wading was slightly tricky without studs so I’d recommend having a wading stick and some studs for this particular section.

2 Trout, 5 Grayling

With the river being so low and on a very bright sunny morning I didn't have any great expectations, but had been meaning to try a beat on the Irfon for some time, but so it proved - a blank, with not a fish in sight despite plenty of fly life evident. Nice stretch of river in a lovely part of the valley, but awful conditions for fish.
Stayed at Irfon Valley Pods, the campsite near Llangammarch Wells, highly recommended.

Low but plenty of flow. Only fished 2 pools mid morning, no rises but caught a stonking 2lb+ trout on red tag beaded nymph tight to the bank in slow wide pool. Managed to fill my chest waders with water so had to call it a day after only two hours.

1 Trout

1 trout 40cm tight to bank in wide downstream pool

1 Trout