Feedback & Reports

My first visit to this beat. There were more fishable swims than other reports led me to believe, but I failed to find any feeding fish after trying several of them. The weather was fantastic for the time of year, being warm and sunny with little or no wind. Water levels had dropped back almost to pre-spate level and the river was running quite clear. Evening was always going to be the best time, but it did’t happen for me on this occasion.

5 Barbel

20 Chub

Not for me this one, will not be returning, 100m of bank for fly is not a suitable fishery for me and that part had a rod out every 10m drowning worms. Water very coloured as quite a lot of rain has fallen,

Well for a change , gave the Arrow Mill beat a crack this morning , only a quick session to be honest , arriving there at nine, was perhaps a bit early , still a chill in the air , so opted for a tiny flashback tungsten PTN , starting down by the bridge . . . . . . . .
Flow pretty impressive over the weir , and it seems the Arrow is holding water still from the other weeks two days downpours . . . Slightly cloudy but otherwise looking great !!!!
Nothing on the nymph , till I got to the deep pool about forty yards short of the weir pool , one good take on the PTN , and a feisty little eight inch grayling to hand , quickly admired then released . . .
Slowly mooched up to the weir pool and had two more grayling , both about six inches , but perfect little fish , and both slipped back in . The section above the weir didn't seem very " alive " , and worked my way after limbo dancing under the electric fence , shame it wasn't positioned about three yards further out !!!!! So that you could at least get down into the river with out some dodgy dancing !!!!
One nice Chubb seen further up but otherwise not much going on fishy wise !!!! Did try a black klinkhammer working likely spots , but no takers today . . . Still a fun few hours , shall get on the Llynfi next week , have a bash at the feisty Welsh Grayling !!!!!! Happy days !!!!!!!

3 Grayling

Very hard. No bites until 2.00 and then nothing after 4.00pm. Water perfect but very cold.

3 Barbel

2 Trout

River running high

Thoroughly enjoyable day: a new beat for me and managed to catch a few! The river was clearly up a bit from summer low after last weekend's storm, but water was clear enough. As noted in other returns, although there are access points it is quite wild, with steep banks covered with dense growth, and while wading was fine where the water level was low enough, there are many sections too deep to wade at this water level. I loved it, but I'm perfectly happy scrambling about a bit. Grayling 8-11", OOS trout were very nice, 3 fine specimens at 13-14", although of course I barely noticed, returning them post-haste. Last trout from nearer top of beat was a 16" stockie - see pic - with a faint blue spot in the middle of its underbelly. Presumably from some neighbouring club?

5 Trout, 4 Grayling

A pleasant autumn day, with the river more or less back to normal level and clear. All the fish fell to pellet feeder, though other methods were tried, including rolled meat.

2 Barbel, 3 Chub