Feedback & Reports

Great days fishing at this wonderful location. Most of the fish caught typically 6 to 10 oz with very fast strikes and hard fighting providing amazing sport. Fished wet pattern using butcher on the dropper and bibio on the point size 14 which seemed to be quite effective ( 18 trout between us with at least the same number of strikes, failing to hook)! Can be quite boggy at the top end but other than that no real issues.

9 Trout

Fished hard all day but nothing to report

1 Trout

Lovely afternoon. Saw a few rises for mayfly. No catch.

5 wbt to 10" on grhe gold head

5 Trout

2 Trout

Sunny, cloudy, river low and clear. There were plenty of rising fish, but were being highly selective. Having found a fly that worked, it was soon evident that the trout were not reading from the same menu! and fly changing became the order of the day. Catching a fish under these conditions is always more rewarding than finding that one pattern is good for the day. We managed five trout with the best two at 1.75lbs. and 1.5lbs respectively. Another enjoyable day on this beat!
Just a note of interest, to those who have fished here before, and made comments about having difficulty with the combination lock; we happened to arrive just as the Farmer did, and he took some tome to open the lock. He said: "I do this twice a day every day, and it always takes some time, I can hardly see the numbers! His wife who was driving the pickup, was splitting her sides laughing at him. So you have to be a little patient with it!

5 Trout

Wonderful place, really beautiful. Casting is tough with the width of the river and the overhanging branches. Fish in evidence but nothing caught. It was a hot slow day so maybe it was that. Just nice to be in such a wonderful place

A wonderful first day for me on Caradoc, a beautiful place for a days fishing with good banks with fly and spinning water with the benefit of being able to drive your car along all of the bank when dry. fished the fly below the suspension bridge most of the day, lots of shad taking and bumping the fly to give some fun with the absence of any sign of salmon . Anglers beware of the wasp nest on the back of the toilet door by the hut, they certainly gave me a buzz when I opened it !! ( Ha Ha )
15 plus Shad

9 Other

River still quite low despite recent rain but carrying just a hint of colour, weather warm and mostly sunny.
Fished the upstream beat in the morning, some flies of various types coming off, including yellow May Duns and later a few proper Mayflies made a welcome appearance. Lots and lots of rises immediately below the bridge but catching proved more difficult than I expected but trial and error with different flies soon had a couple in the net before I moved on up stream.
After this things slowed as the sun got very warm, but eventually I found a fish rising on the far side in flat water before the water broke into rapids, it took my fly then charged off downstream into the fast water, this was a very good fish but finally came off after my hook broke on the bend!...gutted.
The afternoon was spent on the lower half of the beat the fishing improved as the sun started to lose it's intensity and Mayflies started to appear, I took another five trout, missed some great takes and lost another big fish. All fish between 6-13in. taken on dries in great condition and all returned.

7 Trout