Feedback & Reports

lovely day spent on the Wye, good hatches through all the day. All BTs catch with dry flies, and really good size. Switch to nymph to fish the middle section of the beat, and I come across the shad in the picture. Another great day on the Wye

15 Trout, 1 Grayling, 1 Other

People swimming and throwing stones in top half of beat for most of day so could only fish bottom half.

Again a lovely couple of hours, river still low, overcast and light winds. Everything taken on a Klink and lots missed. Grayling from bottom of the Bathing Pool and a nice size Trout from the bottom of Bachawy.

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

An impressive mayfly hatch throughout the day with lots of fish rising in pool tails and the slower sections. All fish caught on dries with as many missed and spooked with bad casts and clumsy wading. Two tiddlers amongst the catch but the rest were plump, beautifully marked Arrow trout from 7 to 13".
Normally when taking photos of agricultural practice its of a horror show. Not today. In one of the fields the farmer has left a 10m buffer strip with grasses and wild flowers between crop and river - fantastic.

14 Trout

River very low and a warm sunny day made fishing difficult. Fished from 9.00 to 19.00. Occasional mayfly and sulphur May coming off but fish not on them. Couldn’t tempt the odd riser (no regular risers) and had to resort to bugs to tempt all but one.

7 Trout

Beautiful spot. Lovely day, one fish seen, nothing rising, nothing caught.

1 Trout

Four good-sized trout hooked on twitched mayfly fished in the margins but all came off - had to adapt as slow-moving gin clear water made conventional approach very difficult with so much real fly life to compete with - could see fish coming up and rejecting what I though to be very good matches on ultra-light sunk leader with zero drag. This is a lovely beat with a good mix of water and no dog walkers. Will easily accommodate the maximum rod number. Other rod also struggled to compete with the rich fly life coming off, but neither of us cared as just being on this beat is enough.

Too hot! No fish. Plenty of activity the day before though, classic.

New beat to me , hard work , tons of walking climbing fighting bushes , Gin clear low and bright so hard work, 5 trout in the daytime on french nothing then a few on dry fly at dusk , non worthy of the landing net Charming beat with plenty of options and places to try , never covered it all

8 Trout