Feedback & Reports

Searching and booking the ticket on the Fishing Passport portal has been very smooth and efficient. The map and information about access and beat limits are easy to use, although I couldn't find an access to the river from the lower parking, and you need a gps (e.g. Google maps) in order to reference the upper and lower limits with your location.
I fished between 9.30am and 8.00pm on a hot, sunny day. The levels might have been low, although I don't know the average levels of the river. I found a great variety of flies, including olives, mayflies, sedges, stonefly (or similar), dragon flies, etc. They didn't hatch at once, but they were fairly present all the day long. This didn't translate in many rises. I have seen only one fish regularly rising at the bottom of a narrow fast flowing current towards the end of the day (a 20/25 cm brown trout which I catch on the dry) and one more odd singular rise at the top pool of the beat.
The rivers alternate shallows fast flowing stretches to very slow pools. Some of the pools are very deep. Wherever the flows slows down, the river holds a very big population of minnows and small fishes, some of them very aggressive on the flies, both dry and nymph. I ended up mistakenly catching two of them, one on the dry one on the nymph.
The other brown trout (probably just under 20cm) came on a nymph from a deep pool under a fast flowing current. All fishes has been returned to the river.
To be noted: there is a bridge that collapsed on the river, as well as other big round concrete objects on the bed of the river immediately further upstream.

2 Trout, 2 Other

7 Trout

Hot day with little cover made for a challenging afternoon. One brave trout took to a daddy long legs and safely returned for next time. Plenty seen through water, but very little rises.

1 Trout

Fished all day long and hard in all pools didn't see a fish or touch one. A lot of Shad caught on both methods of fishing

1 Trout

6 Trout, 3 Grayling, 3 Chub

Fished for a couple of hours from 3pm. A few fish rising and tried para adams without success.

no luck today very quiet

Tried all my armoury of lures etc but only 1 trout caught on worm with pop-up. Lost a large fish early in the day. Fished the Penderyn side of the lake near the locked car park/picnic area as my usual spot the other side was already taken.

1 Trout

great day at Dinas, although fairly tough fishing. Stuck with dry all day, picked up 7 but had a number of fish unbutton, including 2 large fish.

7 Trout