Feedback & Reports

After an extremely hard frost, probably the 1st of the season we new it would be difficult.
We struggled all day and had 3 chub on bread at the death.

3 Chub

Very heavy day and variable weather

3 Barbel, 6 Chub, 4 Other

Cold day slow fishing.. only a few chub & 1 barbel caught

Hard going, very low and cold, not fly active as such and found it difficult to locate any fish at all at first, but as the temperature rose managed 2 Grayling and 2 trout from the top section of the beat. Nothing bigger than half a pound

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

A wonderful days sport for two. 10 hard scrapping barbel from 5-9lb.
A full and very descriptive blog on the day available here:

https://timsriparianramblings.blogspot.com/2018/11/somewhere-under-rainbow.html?m=1

10 Barbel

Most of the grayling were caught in a short period mid-afternoon. Fishing a duo method with all fish taken on the nymph.

20 Grayling

Water fairly low again - and as per beat description, it is quite flat and shallow in places but access is easy and I managed to find a couple of fish, 12" OOS Trout and 8" Grayling. Failed to convert a few other takes, all on nymph end of duo.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Day two of a mini-break. I stayed in The Lion Hotel in Builth Wells - clean & comfortable, off street parking, good breakfast, good price. Recommend it if you are doing Upper Wye beats.
Today the temperature had dropped significantly from Thursday and it felt very cold in the gusty wind. There was plenty of action on the river with fish coming up to the dry and taking the nymph on the same duo set-up (see my 25th Oct feedback from The Rocks). Early afternoon the fish started rising to a sustained hatch of pale up-wings and for a time I switched successfully to a CDC dry.
My problem today was keeping the fish on! I lost at least half a dozen after the first grab, and like all who blame their tools, I began to curse my barbless hooks. Anyway 4 nice Wye fish came to hand, 3 sturdy 14" Grayling and a similar sized OOS WBT. All returned fit.
PS: The beat instructions ask for catch return to be left on forms to be found in glass case in carpark. I couldn't find the glass case but it could have been a "boy look"!

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

3 good grayling + A lot of minnows.

3 Grayling