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Belter of a hen fish weighing 23lbs- typical Wye fish - short and deep. Caught on SHFC 9.30am. Wierend beat.

1 Salmon

All 4 trout fell to Toby type lures.

4 Trout

Fished from 10-3, nothing doing until 1.30 when a sparse and varied hatch brought a few fish to the surface. Two small trout 8” ish ..Greenwells and Para Adams size 16. Shared the fishing with a small Otter which was nice.

2 Trout

Sunny first thing, but went very cold with cloud and North wind. Water temp only 7C. Nothing rising.

Great conditions but not much activity other than during a 15 minute spell around 1pm during a hatch of LDOs, where there were numerous rises to a Kite’s Imperial with one fighting fit fish brought to hand. Thereafter it went quiet. Although this is a lovely beat and a favourite of mine I’m not sure that with this season’s price rise it still represents good value for money.

1 Trout

Fished upstream of Pontygwaith Bridge. Lovely weather, bright and warm with no wind. A few Large Dark Olives and March Brown's coming off when we arrived but the hatch very soon petered out, no fish rising. Despite the rubbish a lovely beat with plenty of very trouty water.

North westerly wind was more lively as the day went on, making casting difficult. Sun brighter too in the afternoon, despite cloudy forecast. Few fish rose and not many flies anywhere along the beat.
Small trout took march brown wetfly and managed one rise to Adams dry fly. The advertised parking at the end of waterworks lane was unavailable. Access gate was padlocked by local Fair organisers.
I felt the booking admin fee for the Breconshire beat ( at 20% of the day ticket) was a little steep.

1 Trout

Sunny cloudless day, 14C / 57F air temp and 7C / 45F water temp. Water green cloudy, about 3ft visibility, dropping about 0.1m per day after 4.1m flood over the banks ten days ago. Water at 0.89m on Ross EA Gauge, and 3’3” on beat Gauge. A good push of water flowing through and still too high for fly fishing in our opinion. We persevered, but neither saw nor touched any fish. We understand that this beat fishes best at below 2’9” on the Beat gauge, ie around 0.74m on the Ross EA gauge.

4 Trout

4 x trout 8-13 inches, spiders. A difficult morning with bright sunshine and a big temperature swing, from a slight frost first thing to 15 degrees at lunchtime. Almost no surface rises and trout which did come up to spiders were taking diffidently rather than confidently (blame the fish, not the angler!) I certainly missed a lot of slight plucks and pulls.

4 Trout