Feedback & Reports

Arrived to find the swim that has produced some good fish for me in the past taken. Beat four. Despite moving beats and trying different areas blanked,( crossed Whitney Toll Bridge four times !) This for the first time in many years of fishing the river Wye.River with conditions perfect. Old Pumphouse section poor access, unfishable Will not return

31 Trout

2 Trout

River level constant all day and thankfully hardly any silkweed being washed down. All fish caught on meat with biggest Barbel about 6lb and biggest Chub 4lb. More canoes on the river but still not to bad.

4 Barbel, 5 Chub

River conditions as other report. 1 Barbel caught on pellet all other fish including the sea trout which was about 2lb caught on meat. Biggest Barbel about 5lb. 2 Chub about 4lb the others around the pound mark. Morning and afternoon best time for bites.

1 Sea Trout, 4 Barbel, 7 Chub

Did not fish, after two hard days I was deflated flat and could not see where a fish was coming from

What has gone wrong. Salmon fishing was always hard but this is ridiculous, I/we have put in so many hours of effort and for what nothing . If we were bad anglers that may explain it a bit but we are not. In nearly 50 years fishing I have not seen it this bad, we have had good water at the right times, supposedly lots of fish waiting to come up . WHERE ARE THEY ?? I am so demoralised I feel like putting my rods away .
As you can guess nothing caught or seen, as usual these days

Well having had a ball up at Claerwen reservoir yesterday , early bells , with a perfect overcast morning and a lovely ripple , was nice tweeking back traditional wets in the wave for some aggressive takes, and eighteen beauties to the net , so thought I'd try and carry on the motion and headed to the Edw , at Hundred House , one of my old favourite rivers . . . .

Was six when I got down to a very shrunken river , opting this morning to mainly fush tiny dries were possible , so on with a tiny Parachute iron blue , they did seem to hammer this last season , so prospecting with it , and first fish , good feisty take too the dry , quickly released , about eight inches .

On the deeper pools , an olive tungsten nymph or PTN worked well and dud have three cracking fish in a tally of fifteen this morning , superb sport on the light six foot two weight rod !!! One of the brownies must have pushed seventeen inches, a real lunker !!!

Plenty of activity from the kingfishers and being in their normal highway route several times had to do
a last minute swerve yo avoid me !!! Superb to see though and perhaps this years brood ??

Asyou go further up this beat , more and more trees are down here , which is a shame, reminds me a bit of the Arrow at Kington , great at the bottom section , but a shambles up near the top of the beat !!!

Still some fabulous sport this morning , with the fifteen yo hand, and five or six slipping the hook , this little river needs some serious rain to freshen it up, although the brownies fought like tigers !!! The fish today ranged from six inches up to the big one I had , with most in the eight ish bracket . A great five hours ,calling it a day just after eleven , a slow mooch back to the truck for a well earned can of pop and a choggie bar , happy days, back here soon !!!!

15 Trout

2 Trout