Feedback & Reports

Water was at a good height, dropping and clearing. Caught one salmon of about 8lb on a size 12 gold willie gunn fished on a full floating line with a sink tip. The fish wasn’t fresh but recovered well and swam away strong. Caught in the mill stream during bright sunshine at lunch time. Well worth the visit from Anglesey.

1 Salmon

Both Salmon and Chub came from the bridge pool.Salmon was 6 1/2lb chub about 5lb. Salmon was an old fish and a hen fish. went back no trouble as did the chub

1 Salmon, 1 Chub

on the positive side I saw otters, dippers.egrets and kingfishers. there were trout feeding until the sun finally broke through at around 2pm. the fish beat me and that can happen. it has been around ten years since i fished this beat before it became a foundation water, and in that time it does not look as though any bank side work has been done. the access in and out of the river is very poor especially the lower end of the beat. this makes getting in and out of the water dangerous and damaging to waders as there are many brambles hidden in the undergrowth. this used to be such a lovely beat,but in its present condition i cannot recommend it and will not be returning. sorry for this negative observation but action is required.

1 Trout

3rd session on Craig Llyn, went further down river but still no success. Spoke to another angler who said I was wasting my time fishing this stretch and that the river fishes much better down by Sean Shepherd's hut. One further point, I did notice on my 3 visits there were no rising fish to cast to. Another point the angler that I spoke to made was that it is imperative that you use a French leader, although I'm not a professional or am I an amateur, I'm not quite sure what this type of leader is. I intend to use this method this evening.

Only fished from 4.30pm until dark and had a barbel and a chub in my first 2 casts! Had another barbel and another chub soon after and then very quiet for a few hours and then 2 more barbel as it got dark. All fished caught on feeder with boilie hook baits. Lovely stretch, lots of owls in the nearby woods. Only negative point would be the amount of anglers on the opposite bank which cuts down your options of swim somewhat. There was about 8-10 on a Wednesday so imagine the weekends could be busy. Access is easy and some comfortable swims to fish if that's what you're looking for.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

Amazing, wonderful little river, full of character and life. Water was low due to dry summer but plenty of deep pools left holding fish. Tried several different dry flies on various beats but to no avail - sun was shining brightly in afternoon which didn't help but by early evening there was a good hatch of duns. Still nothing coming to surface so I changed to a gold bead Czech nymph - after several casts I had a lovely wild brownie on. Fish fought very strongly and when landed was 14"/ 1.25 pounds and swam away strongly when returned. Lovely way to end the day on a delightful river.

1 Trout

Lovely stretch of river with beautiful surrounding, unfortunately no action for us today.

8 Barbel, 9 Chub

Hut again

8 Barbel, 9 Chub

Managed three lovely conditioned Trout and a decent Grayling all on the dry from the top of the beat.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling