Feedback & Reports

I started the day with a wonderful hike along the Four Waterfalls Trail with my wife. The scenery was so breathtaking that we completely lost track of time before heading to Talybont Reservoir, arriving at around 3:20 p.m.
As I have limited experience fishing reservoirs, and with the warm afternoon conditions, I wasn't expecting much. I fished for about an hour and a half but unfortunately didn't catch anything.
Even without a fish, the trip was absolutely worthwhile. The peace, tranquillity, and natural beauty of Wales made for a perfect day. Thank you for a wonderful experience—I look forward to returning again soon.

Good day on the brook – 24 trout and 1 roach. My first visit in nearly two years—time really flies! A late 10 a.m. start, with the air at 22°C and the water at 18°C. After a quick disinfectant spray and a check that the waders were still watertight, I was off.

The first pleasant surprise was that there weren't many dogs in the water. The second (and less welcome) surprise was finding people swimming and having BBQs along the beat! A few large trees have come down since my last visit, but otherwise the beat was in surprisingly good condition. If Oliver Burch has been responsible for keeping it tidy, he deserves a thank you from all of us anglers.

Water levels were low, leaving many of my usual hotspots high and dry. What puzzled me most was the colour of the water—it was brown and murky despite no recent rain. I later discovered swimmers at the upper limit and halfway along the beat, with the latter stirring up the riverbed and colouring the water downstream.

The coloured water led me to fish a larger fly (S12 Klinkhamer) with longer drifts. I switched to a nymph occasionally, but the dry fly consistently outfished it, producing 24 trout between 4 and 10 inches. The only fish on the nymph was a bonus roach.

Interestingly, the swimmers didn't seem to put the trout off—I caught several fish surprisingly close to them.

A cracking day overall, despite losing about a third of the beat to swimmers and dogs. I won't leave it another two years before returning!

24 Trout, 1 Other

Great day of fishing, 89 fish caught between 3 of us with some large fishing being caught

50 Trout, 39 Grayling

Really quiet day fishing. Over 10 hours with two fishing and only 2 fish caught.

2 Trout

Unfortunately, the trout weren't biting. It was probably too hot. But we caught about a dozen perch.

10 Other

A second great day the wading is a little more challenging but worth the effort fish came to a mix of dries and nymphs. The heat still making the fishing challenging duing the high of the day hatches coming off in the evening far better

12 Trout, 15 Grayling

5 Grayling

1 Trout

Water temp 23.4 at 0800. The swim most likely had already been taken so settled in below the bridge. Very low with a slightly deeper channel halfway across. Had 4 chub fishing a half ounce bomb and double 8mm over loose fed pellet. Packed at 1400 as temp approached 25.

4 Chub

Beautiful beat with the air temperature high hatches were non existent until later in the day the morning was hard work but still managed 9 blind to dries. Once temperatures cooled took the remainder of the fish mainly to dries but some to nymphs but a great day all fish returned and wet wading the order of the day

10 Trout, 15 Grayling