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2 rainbow trout caught on spinners and both returned

2 Trout

2 junior anglers lure fishing for the first time and no fish caught

1 Barbel, 9 Chub, 1 Other

Never fished

Started 2.30pm. Nice temperature at about 22C. Water levels extremely low. On landowners advice I focused on the top half of the beat where there are more riffles and moving, oxygenated water. Waded alot. Didn't see any fish moving so was focusing on Euro Nymphing (never done it before so haven't got the hang of how to do it really) and caught the two grayling hours apart in turbulent water beneath natural weirs on goldhead copper wire-bodied nymph. Saw one trout (not grayling?) rise at about 8pm and then put it down as I tried to reach it with lobbed nymphs. The nature of this very beautiful stretch of river is that there is lush undergrowth everywhere so not sure I would have managed to cast a fly-line properly too often.

2 Grayling

A great morning's fishing despite the low and clear river conditions all fish caught using ledgering tactics stopped fishing around 2pm when the canoe traffic got too hectic but all in all a lovely little stretch!

6 Barbel, 7 Chub

3 Trout

2 trout

2 Trout

Unfortunately caught no fish.
Issues:
1. Two of the best pools on river Rheidol were made useless because families had picnic there and many children were playing in the river and making noise. If the spots are open to public for picnic then it's not a fishing spot managed by an fishing club for a fee! It's pity the pools were perfect for fishing.
2. We went to the w3w address of Cwm Rheidol Reservoir, mentioned in the lakes map downloaded from AAA website, but there was no access to the lake, and there was a sign saying fishing is not permitted. We then tried to find the power station car park, as mentioned in the river maps of AAA for the spot M on the map, could not find it. We wasted a lot of time to find out where the AAA fishing spots on Rheidol Reservoir are , with no luck. So AAA provides wrong information to the people buy day tickets. Not happy at all for the tickets we bought and the service and information we received

Fishing Passport Note : We’d hope that each anglers visit would be peaceful but in reality this is not always going to be the case. I’m afraid that anglers will usually encounter other river users, particularly on warm summer weekends. There is 16 miles of the Rheidol to fish.

We are not aware of any 'Fishing is not permitted' signs.

Fishery maps can be downloaded from your Order Confirmation email if booking through the Fishing Passport website but we will give your feedback to AAA on the information that they provide directly from their website.

Lot of chub and some barbel