Feedback & Reports

Intermittent rain, about 17C and a southerly breeze. Quite a change from a week of high pressure and blue sunny skies. The odd small fish rising at the dam end on arrival at 8am. One small brownie rushed out to harass the bob fly at the end of a retrieve near the old boathouse. Otherwise no other contacts. Overall impressions on this my first visit: an attractive water, which probably fishes well on the right day; however, slightly let down by the traffic noise on the adjacent A470 and the heavily wooded western side and top end, which makes access challenging.

2 Trout

Had some really good grayling upto 17 imches on caddis and cdc dries 16 fish including six browns .mixed cloud and sun..

6 Trout, 10 Grayling

3 hours fishing around noon. Plenty of sunshine, temperatures was over 20 degrees in mid September! Tricky cast was required due to the over grown branch of tree and heavy bush on both side bank. River bed and stone were covered by weed, this was another cause of trouble...I caught 3 Grayling under the trees.

3 Grayling

River low and clear, very sparse hatch, plenty of trees in the channel making life interesting. Occasional fish keeps you moving upstream in search of more........ just move carefully!!!! The fish spook and the rocks are slippery!

6 Trout

Hard days fishing, 3 chub at first light, not a touch then till after 6pm fished an hour after dark, day going to my brother 4 barbel 4 chub, 8lb biggest barbel, chub to 3lb odd.

4 Barbel, 7 Chub

River very low and clear. It was very sunny all day. Lots of dace and an eel caught. Lovely stretch but not ideal conditions.

40 Other

Having had a trip in June to the lower Wyes which was defeated by floods, this trip to the Upper Wye was defeated by quite low water (8" at Llanstephan gauge), blazing sun and heat (25 degrees), and probably my ineptitude. The river seemed very quiet. I saw no fish move and despite a trickle of sedges and other hatches, no rising trout or grayling. I covered all the "low water" beats listed in the excellent notes. I also met a couple of kayakers peering over the fence at the Heirag falls. I told them I didn't think their double kayak would really be suited to shooting the rapids. Eventually, they came to the same conclusion and spent the next 30 minutes, dragging and scraping it across the rocks and then shot straight through as I fished the bridge gutter. Oh well. They were nice enough.

WUF note there is an arrangement whereby canoes keep off until the end of the season of when there is a spate which rises over the red line on the Llanstephan gauge