Feedback & Reports

Our second day was a bit more productive having found a couple of pegs where the fish seemed to be. Lots of chub and barbel turned on around midday, all to pellet. Unfortunately we had to pack up around 6 otherwise more fish would have been caught. A 12lb cock salmon was also taken that took some beating!! A good couple of days to start the season off.
WUF Note: We are very grateful for reporting the salmon capture. However, this fish won't be added to the "official" salmon catches as it was not caught on fly or spinner.

1 Salmon, 10 Barbel, 20 Chub

2 Trout

2 Chub

4 Barbel, 4 Chub

River was low - fish caught on luncheon meat

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

Not a lot to report other than the eels were playing ball. River very low and not much flow.

4 Other

Good day for all 3 anglers, size of barbel was quite small, I would suggest larger fish were spawning.

11 Barbel, 8 Chub

As I hadn’t fished this beat before, and as a Father’s Day treat before breakfast, I fished a very small section of this lovely beat for a couple of hours. Some lovely looking pools, which would benefit from a slight pruning around. However, managed 3 where pools were more accessible and i didn’t mess up back cast. Will return to explore further next time!

3 Trout

fished from 11am till 1pm. stream extremely low and no fly on the water . trout taking 2mm bead nymph . takes were very subtle and after missing a few used a slinky which helped no end. all between 7-10 inches

7 Trout

Lots of hatches on a cloudy, muggy day and some great runs for wet fly & slow pools for dry fly, despite the river being lower than we've ever seen it. Fished the upper River Wye north of Rhayader yesterday, and the river was on its bones. But Glan-yr-Afon is still in good shape despite the ongoing drought-like conditions. I caught one on Waterhen Bloa about half way up the beat, around 6oz in a beautiful run. My brother tried the dry fly and managed to rise a few fish, but the hook wouldn't set! Superb setting to fish in, and the wildlife us remarkable: buzzards and heron flying directly overhead, and some chicks recently fledged dodging in and out of the overgrowth. All in all, a great session - but we desperately need rain, and lots of it!!

11 Trout