Feedback & Reports

Dry net apart from two out of season Brownies.
Fantastic water though, and a good heads up from the club with the mobile number on the website for Llandovery.

River was low and slightly coloured, and the weather was warm for October and sunny for most of the day. A couple of salmon showed in the lower end of the beat, but did not respond to the fly.

Fished 10 till 5. Heard fish rising from the off, but often hard to see in sun-dappled riffle and breeze, and so fished IOBO, small hare's ear and dark olive emergers all day. A day fraught in the afternoon by a seemingly almost incessant downstream wind which, at times, made decent presentation a nightmare, and not from the direction forecast!!! However it was quite warm and, as anticipated, some fish rose on and off all day in the foam / leaf lanes and they were usually grayling. Fish which weren't rising were looking up and duly obliged. It is always amazing, but never a surprise, at what a huge difference a brief calm spell of just a few minutes makes to the presence or absence of rising fish at this time of year! We were delighted to have had quite a productive day under such frequently adverse conditions. Trout to 12", and grayling to 13" with the 8-10" year-class dominant.

10 Trout, 35 Grayling

NTR nothing to report

Low water, not much movement. Needs another wet spell before things pick up.

11 x grayling 6-14 inches, 1 x out of season trout 19 inches, Red Tag and Grayling Steel Blue dries. A warm and cloudy day after a mild night, water at a good height - you would think it a perfect grayling dry fly day. In fact there were very few rises and the only grayling shoal I found rising was composed of mostly shots. A slight sipping rise on the edge of a raft of dead leaves was repeated when a Red Tag was floated there and after a 50 yard dash downstream in panic turned out to be a beautiful hen brown trout. A most handsome fish but unfortunately it's October 4th, so it doesn't count! There you go.

11 Grayling

13 Barbel, 4 Chub

Fantastic conditions, what can I say? The catch says it all! Various methods mainly feeders and pellet.

28 Barbel, 31 Chub

Warm, SW wind though too much sun. Plenty of interest in a range of techniques. Eleven trout landed to 35 cm though one that fell off after the first run felt bigger. Some trout still carrying Argulus. Lovely afternoon's fishing for October.

11 Trout

Redbrook cock Salmon 5 lb good fun on a single handle 7# small black fly.

1 Salmon