Feedback & Reports

With only six days of the trout season left and the weather forecast to change from mid-week, I decided to head to the Gwent AS water and give it a go. With the Glanusk guage at 10", the river tea-coloured and dropping, 13 degrees in the water and a balmy 15-18 degrees autumn day with cloud and no wind, surely the bugs and fish would oblige! I fished from 11 until 4 and some fish rose from arrival until about 2 p.m., but even after that there were a few risers and when there were not, they still came up to emergers in the foam lanes. As usual at this time of year, small HE emergers did the trick, almost certainly representing the small olives and PWs, some of which were around from the off. There were also quite a few YMs, and what looked like LBDs in the shallower margins, during the afternoon. Fish from 10 -15", the latter around to 1.5lb mark. Missed others and dropped two much better fish. Grrrrrrrrrrrr! Happy days.

18 Trout

This was a damp old day. The Barbel were out to play right from the start. All 11 caught on pellet 10or 14mm,
the biggest was 8lb 4 oz.
Didn't get a bite after 1.00 pm, so headed home 3pm. Another great weekend on the Wye.
The new steps were very useful for an "old man"

11 Barbel

4 Barbel

I had hoped the drop in levels would continue but the gauge at Ross, http://www.gaugemap.co.uk/#!Detail/801/820 was showing 0.725 and this was about 0.25 higher than ideal for safe wading access to the better areas. Oh well we all have to blank sometimes, but I do believe this is my first here in many a year!
Anyway, not too much in the way of debris coming down so everyone should be able to fish, game/coarse, without any trouble for a while yet.
Bank maintenance on this beat is excellent but an easier egress point lower down on right bank, for those who are wading, would be most welcome as thrashing back upstream is exhausting! Or am I just getting old ?

Really tough day, the river was high, coloured and bombing through which made fishing this beat particularly hard. We had about 100 swimmers pass through and very heavy canoe traffic which didn't help and also there's a portage point on this stretch, so we had lot's of people entering and exiting the river next to where we were fishing! But we still caught a few.

6 Barbel

2 Chub

Last day of a four day blast on the WUF. Fished about half way up and all fish caught to a dry Adam Para. Thanks WUF for a great weekend.

9 Trout

Couple of hours spent on the Edw to close the season. 6 wbt caught on Adams para, all returned, best 10".

6 Trout

2 Barbel

High river could not have fished without Micks guidance on where it was safe to wade and fish.