Feedback & Reports

Bought a day ticket from The Bait Shack in Merthyr Tydfil, fished from about 12-4 pm, with lots of fumbling around and being hungover and having lunch.
Cycled up to trefechan and accessed the river from there.
Its a beautiful location to fish, the river is narrow and overgrown with lots of trees for you to lose your favourite flies on. Water was very clear and low, day was warm and sunny.
I fished with a tenkara rod and started off with heavy nymphs, and then switched to a dry foam beetle. Both methods caught fish equally as well in their own way.
My impression is that the river is teeming with small fish, the ones I caught were all less than 20 cm long but very athletic. I lost around half a dozen fish mostly due to having to work around lots of obstacles and trying to be as careful as possible with such small trout.
My impression is that the river is teeming with small trout but its not easy fishing.
The trout are very spooky and I’d often see them darting around pools as soon as I was in eyeshot, even when I wasn’t close or I was on a high bank. I saw a few dog walkers so I can see why, from the trout’s point of view human = incoming dog.
Am likely to return as its really nice fishing. If I can, with a shorter rod (mine is 12ft).

4 Trout

Rocked up at the Litton beat having fished a neighbouring beat of the club I'm in during a couple of hours in the morning , from the onset brownies hammering the mayfly , and plenty of other upwings on manoeuvres too !!!!! Including Coch y bonddu beetle , as the field I walked down to the river was alive with them , absolutely crawling with the little beetles , great to see . . . . .

A warm muggy day , reading nineteen degrees when I set up at half ten , lovely weather for dries , I'd say ! And it certainly was , trout smashing my grey Wulff , and Mohican mayfly with aggression and with some serious gusto !!!!!

Most fish were in the eight to ten inch range , but in a tally of twenty three I had five seriously tubby brownies , that put up a good bend in the six foot , two weight rod , Great stuff !!!!! Some in the thirteen maybe fourteen inch range . . . , in gorgeous condition !!!!!

A lot of catapult casting and spending a lot of the day on my knees in the stream , but under the canopy was the place to be today on a hot one like today . . . . . . Easy to cast kneeling , and certainly more stealthy .

Called it a day at half three , superb sport , with some gorgeous fish brought to hand , and twenty three caught , with half a dozen throwing the barbless hook , as it was difficult to keep them on the large bushy fly !!! Still a fantastic few hours went home a happy Chappy , a few ambers nectars out with Mrs A. later . What could be better , happy days . . . . . . . . . . . One to remember while I'm supping my Stowford Press later on !

23 Trout

Beautiful beat. Canoes from 2pm to 4:30 pm only. No fish seen. Water a bit murky

River was a bit on the low side ,very difficult to navigate stretches of the water as a fence and a lot of cut down trees to get over , making some stretches impossible to get at.Only a few touches from small trout.

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