Feedback & Reports

Hard work fishing from first to last light, on a wet, windy, grey, Mid-Walian day for a few bites.

River level at mid-range(?), falling (0.68-0.69m Cilmery gauge, but the drop during the day seemed more) and water nearly crystal-clear by dusk.

Five ladies, most over a pound, to 1:10 on maggot on our first visit to this river. A bit tougher than expected.

Covered nearly all of the stretch, but be aware that due to recent erosion you need to wade across and then back, to access the whole length. This was OK today but would not need much more water on to make it unviable. The new fence at the upstream end makes access very difficult to the upper quarter and we could not cover the last 200m to the sewage works. Likewise at the lower end, where we could not work out the access so waded (just) to the wrong bank to get a look.

Lovely scenery (mizzle allowing!). The few fish we did catch came from deeper slower pools and faster water.

We would have fished the gutters as advertised in the beat's description...but coming from a coarse-fishing background I have no idea what these are!

Landowner extremely helpful after a vehicle incident unrelated to the fishery.

4 Trout, 5 Grayling

Although the river conditions and weather were favourable, the fish were reluctant to feed.
Water visibility was good so perhaps should have acquired some maggots. Occasional taps and rattles using pellets but all fish fell to sweetcorn used with a ground bait feeder.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

River level was good. A blustery day. I struggled to access river as I am too old for this now. Managed one grayling and one osb, leaded nymphs, but a better angler would have caught much more as conditions and river were pretty good. Probably my last ever river trip, unfortunately.

Fishing Passport Note : Take a look at The Colonels Water up at Llanwyrtyd Wells... very easy access here.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Days like today remind me why I'm a fair weather angler, it's not so frustrating to blank when it's at least a nice day.

Hard going today. River looked spot on but only one chub at 4lb saved the blank. Fished end swim on LH bank, looking downstream. Caught on cheese paste.

1 Chub

Just fished the morning until 1.30, the conditions were as good as it gets for this time of year, overcast and 14°, manage 3 barbel 5lb 10, 8lb 4 and 9lb

3 Barbel

River at 1.3 meters and 8.5 degrees fished the big slack
Both Chub caught on robin red pellet to GB feeder.

2 Chub

wash off

A wonderful day on one of my favourite W&UF beats. Biggest grayling was 14" ... all caught on trotted maggots.
Many thanks to the landowner and the W&UF.

6 Trout, 13 Grayling

really slow morning , 2 chub. Barbel starting feeding in the afternoon but made the mistake of leaving early to watch the Liverpool game. 2 Barbel around 7lb. 2 lost at the net. all caught on pellet.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub