Feedback & Reports

The 5 Grayling were taken trotting maggots 2 of them were over the 1 lb mark. The river was still on the high side but just about fish able for the fly

5 Grayling

River looking nice but freezing fog persisted all day. Tough to locate fish but a few decent grayling caught trotting with maggots. One grayling just over 2lb and a huge OOS Brownie at around 5lb.

2 Trout, 4 Grayling

Well a cold foggy morning when I was out with the pooch this morning at half six !!! Minus two and like pea soup with fog . . . Debating in my head where to wet a line .

Plumbed for the little River Dore , and set off , the usual Hereford traffic driving through aaarrrgh that's why I favour the A44 ti be honest and fishing out towards Rhayader and Aberystwyth , still never mind !!!

Got there at ten , parked up at the Tan House Farm pull in , still reading one degrees in my truck, tackled up my six foot two weight , as I know it is always tight in the stream here , single silver and pink tungsten nymph tied on and bimbled down to the beat start . . . . .

Worked slowly up, one small six inch brownie on , slipped back in , mid way on the beat , a decent deep deep pool , worked the nymph, bang!!@ something decent on , and played out a cracking twelve inch grayling, admired then slipped back in , two minutes later and into another one, ditto in size , into a good thing I thought !! But I really worked that pool and no more ladies playing at the party today!! Still was nice to get the two this morning , and that was my lot , a lovely amble upstream, I must say it's in desperate need of a hair cut and lots of new trees fallen across the stream , shame really!!! But three chaps with loppers will tidy this up a treat , needs it big time !!!

A fun couple of hours , two lovely ladies to the net , oh and a rather nice Mailes Pie from Locks Garage . . . . . . . Weeeeeeeell gotta be done hey !!!!

2 Grayling

Pretty chilly in the frosty fog . I stuck it for 3 hrs wading well into the deeper stretches with a bug and small copper head ptn. Never found the grayling but had a nice OOS BT on the ptn.

1 Trout

Didn’t see any fish. The water was Gin clear, and about .55 on the gauge. Fished all the deeper water from the Church up to the Grandstand (very difficult to access, some dead trees need removing). Temperature was 1 degree all day as the fog didn’t clear. Fly fished with a team of 3 Grayling flies. Would be interested to hear from OB of Gloucestershire where he located the shoal?

Dense fog, and a little chilly when we arrived (-3 degrees). Water pushing through but looked ideal, so we persevered despite biting cold. Tried various methods through the day, but only managed 1 Grayling - caught by DJ on a small nymph. Very tough going, but great to get out on the River !

1 Grayling

Zero fish

lovely day, river in great condition, managed 4 chub, biggest went 5.5lb and was very short and massively fat. cracking stretch in winter or summer

4 Chub

10 x grayling 14-17 inches, 4 x out of season trout 10-15 inches, trotting. Another warm winter day, cloudy with increasing wind. With the Llanstephan gauge at 2ft 3 inches and some colour in the water, it was a matter of concentrating on slower water near the bank. A lovely class of good-looking grayling today, but they were surprisingly spooky with a need for light tackle to get more solid takes. Unwanted trout came muscling in to spoil the fun towards the end. I had a very pleasant chat with visiting day ticket rods.

10 Grayling