Feedback & Reports

8 Trout

Nice beat with good bank access

3 Barbel

3 nice fish, 2 on worms and 1 on a spinner. Water level has risen very rapidly and is almost back to full now.

3 Trout

Angler no. 2: 2 x Rainbows on worms

2 Trout

Both Anglers used garden worms Angler 1 caught 2 Trout Angler 2 caught 3 trout The reservoir was much better today the water was higher

5 Trout

I’m not much of a river fisherman but with the Llangurig gauge at 3ft the evening before, and knowing that it drops like a stone, I hoped for a bit of a “play” with some small trout in Ty Mawr, freshened up by the spate.
So 1ft 6” and absolutely gin clear = good start apart from a downstream wind. I put on a 3mm tungsten PTN aware of others’ fishing reports of how critical depth is. First pool, upstream the leader pulled away and a great brown shadow dashed across the width of the pool . “My God” in contact with one of the upper Wye s’ big browns. I’ve seen them occasionally sprinting away once spooked- but now I’ve hooked one ! My baby 6 ½ ft rod struggled to keep the fish in the pool but eventually I got the head in the net and the rest teetered on the rim ...and flopped in ! 20” of perfection c. 2 ½ lbs. Safely returned I sat on the bank for 5 minutes in wonder.
Walked up to the top of the beat – there really aren’t that many pools – and with the forecast “gentle breeze” now bending the bushes in half, down and across was the only option for an uncoverable pool I had left on the way up. Before the fly was even in the neck of the pool the water exploded and another big fish was on !! A frantic fight and this was a female, slightly shorter at 18” or so but the fattest wild fish I have ever seen, well over 2 lb. Stunned, stumbling along the bank I caught 2 more much smaller fish and saw another large fish .
So now with the rest of the family in bed, I’m sitting quietly with a beer reflecting on a day I really don’t want to end. Wow.

4 Trout

3 Trout

The river was quite high and coloured and not much fly life -
So Most of the fish caught during period of fishing downstream spiders. Most likely would have been more if we had stuck to this method.

4 Trout

another trip to this beat , water level up and coloured . Fished steadily through the day with some nice fish landed. Hope to return again some time soon .

9 Barbel, 14 Chub

Arrived to find most of the forest of Dean floating down river. Mass of debris in the water making impossible to put a line out and the water level meant that the majority of swims were not accessible. Fished on the far bank below the bridge to start but after a few hours gave up as conditions bad. Moved back to the roadside and found in the last swim i could fish sitting on the steps. Had a 6lb Chub fishing slightly down stream about a road length out just behind a tree. Had 3 more over 4lbs over the next couple of hours. Then after a 30m run down the centre lost a barbel after which it when quiet. Had a couple of hours sleep and had a good evening with 6 more Chub all good fish mostly between 4.5 to 5.5lbs and a consolation Barbel of 5.5Lbs. River level dropped 12ins during the day and conditions were nice by the evening.

1 Barbel, 10 Chub