Feedback & Reports

Well, well, well, got to a disappointingly low edw at eleven bells ... thought it may be a bit refreshed from the few days rain we've had bit looks like it's dropped back to Sumner low ....again... I did a thermometer test anyway l, reading 11 degrees ....
Anyway, hard hard going today........ really slow, stealthy wading ..... which you have to do Anyway now as the average depth is probably a foot .... I worked a Para Iron Blue dry in the likely locations ..... some risers by mid day, just before a half hour downpour!!! Olives and a few mays still on the go ...still nice to have splashy aggressive takes..... and surprisingly two really tubby fish in the skinniest of water !!@ lovely job !!!
Still a lovely bear to mooch up .... five fish ...between seven and ten inches..... all to the Parachute dry , so really a fun three hours if I put it in perspective with such a low river.... ohhh point tj note for anglers, I've been informed by the girls in the garage @ E.T.James in Rhayader passed on from family who farms up there, the bull and resident beef cattle in the field are fine, no worries.... so the walk back was still with a Benny Hill pace on ....minus the music!!! Wellllll you can't beat a bit of bully hey !!! Lol ...........
A fun few hours .... back up on a solitary mountain Llyn tommorrow , then it looks like heavy rain for Rhayader Carnival day, on the saturday. Be aware anglers, Royal Welsh show the week after ... if you're fishing this way, be prepared for long queues !!anyway , happy days .... a few secretive hours on one of my favourites , sorted !!!!

5 Trout

River coloured and running with a bit of height. Slow going only 2 barbel but lots of chub. I always see reports about people catching an eel. Thought it was a myth until now.

2 Barbel, 8 Chub, 1 Other

1 Barbel, 16 Chub

A pleasant days fishing, we both settled into swims on Upper Sallys. We caught Chub to 4lb on both feeder and also trotting the float using meat and pellet. Unfortunately no Barbel were caught.
The drive to the hut around the edge of the field could be greatly improved if the tall grass in the middle of the track was cut back, at one point it was like driving through the grasslands of the Serengeti.

14 Chub

11 Barbel, 7 Chub

1 Trout

No fish from me or - I'm pretty sure - from the two other bank anglers. Conditions OK. Caravan dwellers on site said it had been a tricky few days with nothing consistently working, and what action there was mostly late in the evening. However a boat angler bagged 3 on small black dries in a few hours, but found them out in the middle, beyond (my) casting range.

Great day at Middle Hill with bites from the 1st cast. Ended up with chub to 4lb and barbel to 9lb . At times I would get a fish within 30secs of the bait hitting the deck! Ideal conditions with the river up about 1ft+ dropping and a good colour with the weather warm and partly cloudy. There seems to be a good few new swims cut out in the bottom third of the beat especially for float fishing with additional parking down opposite the castle. Surprisingly I didn’t have anything in the last few hours of the evening but who’s complaining! No doubt return at some point probably in the Autumn

7 Barbel, 7 Chub

Dry fly and nymphing, the latter only successful, average length 15cm.No fish taken. First 2km fished which required 4 river crossings each way. The vast majority of the river fished has boulder covered bottom making wading more difficult. There is a very distinct lack of fish.
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4 Trout

6 Chub