Feedback & Reports

Took a guest for evening fishing for trout. River just under 0.5m and temp 27 deg. Not much going on so fished sub surface until the rise with variety of nymphs with no takes,
Gabe, my guest fished some of his ancient patterns with no success either.
He tied on a huge mayfly and landed a three quarter pound fish from the head of the rock which was returned.
I had no success below rock using a variety of normally dependable dry patterns such as White and grey wulff. CDC and deer hair sedge to no avail.
Water temperature was tepid so guess fish were less than ready to take. Disappointing. Finished at 22.15

1 Trout

Not ideal conditions when you are fishing on the hottest day of the year

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Very hot still day, not ideal conditions for anglers or fish. Scenery still fantastic
Pellet and feeder tactics

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

A bit slow as expected given the heat, but picked up in the evening.

3 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

5 Barbel, 7 Chub

6 Barbel, 6 Chub

4 Barbel

On a very hot day on a low river we headed for the wood and fished the faster water of the lucky stones which turned out to be not lucky at all as the barbel simply would not feed . Fortunately we were kept entertained by a ravenous shoal of chub which took whatever we put on the hook below our feeder rigs . In all we managed 33 , mainly in the 2 to 3lb range with 27 coming to one rod . The hill round the wood was a real killer in the near 30 degrees heat .

33 Chub

Booked five days on Talybont this week but did not anticipate the heatwave! Fished for three hours in the blistering heat at the stream mid way down the reservoir. A light breeze heading towards the dam showed a few splashy risers. Very encouraging to see so many small fry in the stream flow though. The reservoir was completely full to the brim. Gave up before I turned to toast. No takes to a small stick fly.

Very hot day so lucky to get anything , two trout caught on nymphs in fast water , rest on dries very last thing (they waited till you could just barely see the fly ) caught on small CDC flies (baby sun /ducks dun type flies)

7 Trout