Feedback & Reports

Worryingly I saw several cormorants just downstream from Foy bridge. These birds were actively feeding on fish under the surface of the river and should be culled. There are too many of them.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

An extremely disappointing first day of our three day fishing trip. The swims were completely overgrown and inaccessible. With thistles, brambles and stinging nettles creating impenetrable, precarious routes to the river level, which is very low at present. This is a serious safety hazard and after a brief risk assessment and the fact we are both elderly gentleman (66 & 68) it was deemed unsafe and unfit for us to fish.

River painfully low. We tried hard all day but could not find any barbel, only chub.

15 Chub

We fished the Towy at Nantgeredig … a beat we know and with easy access even though we didn’t arrive tilll 8.45 . Swung a small black and silver on a floating line and a Daione on a sink tip … moved one fish and had a few knocks on the Daione but no firm contact . Enjoyed star gazing during fishing interludes… finished at 0030 when mist rose off the river. Pretty well as expected…

1 bream about 4lb and 2 carp up to 18lb

3 Other

One brown trout on olive klinkhammer ,nice fish of around 1half lbs

1 Trout

2 Barbel

Low water but good float fishing.

2 Barbel, 14 Chub

Had 6 trout kept 4 and a few perch all on 2 rods both float fishing with worm such a beautiful spot in that little cove will definitely come again on holiday and do a spot of fishing on the usk reservoir again.

6 Trout, 4 Other

Just a quick shimmy up the bottom beat from midday to just past two ish ... I did have a look at my fav, the Clywedog Brook, she's the colour of choccie at the mo after last night's rain ..... so went on to the Ithon.
Carrying colour, a tiny bit of height maybe, but gauge did say 0.099m before I headed out..., all of a sudden that brown horrid algae is on the stones ........ seems like the trout numbers dwindle when thr river " turns " ..... I'm sure they make tracks and head further downstream.... The stuff is aweful, smelly too !!!!..Can this get tested by your lab guru's WUF ???? Needs looking at I'd say .... Anyway, fishing wasn't that lively, no rises seen the whole time there, although I did do some clipping back as well with secateurs ....A very very quite river today if I'm honest, six to my dry fly, all ditto in size, about seven inches, .... its as if someone's flicked a switch on the Ithon .... most weird . Certainly WUF the river water sample needs taking I'd say ....Got a hunch chicken shit run off is going into it ... or if you can't, Flag it up to NRW ...let me know what the progress is please TV.M.
Not a bad session .... certainly not the river of seven weeks ago ..... run off ???? Using my hunch I'd say yes ..... NRW, over to you ????
Must admit, I'm ready to get back on the Edw and the Cammarch now ....Can we get a progress report on these WUF ???? After all, some of our best wild streams are out of action at the mo, with no updates for season permit holders ????
Will perhaps head to the Lugg or Arrow in a few days.. in fact amend, not the Arrow,that's closed too !! The one section of the glorious Lugg it is then .... seems strange how long the Lugg is, yet as a wild stream beat we have only ....2 !!!! One of which is nearly not fishsble now..Pilleth ??? More Lugg beats needed me finks ... be superb that !! Anyway,onwards and upwards .... Clients at Nantymoch end of the week .... Happy days !!!

5 Trout