Feedback & Reports

2 Trout

4 Grayling

It was an enjoyable days fishing on the Wye today and the river was at perfect height, we started out fishing the lower part of the beat and the Wye and Usk Foundation are correct about needing felt soled waders as it is extremely slippy and I fell in and was almost swept away. All the fish were caught on a size 16 tungsten headed pheasant tailed nymph with a hint of green flash in the head and a pink Czech nymph. A spiral indicator was very useful to detect the subtle bites.

4 Grayling

8 x grayling 10-12 inches, 4 x out of season trout, heavy nymphs. The poor old Lugg really does need some more water and it's currently very low and clear. Nothing of size taken today and it was really quite hard work, but were still some holes deep enough to plumb for a few hours. I like the new fencing scheme, also the willow pleaching, and it will be interesting to see how the bank grows up. Incidentally, I don't know why such a fuss is made about the wooded area upstream. This is the area where most (not all) of the large fish taken at Eyton over time have been found and well worth fishing through. You either roll under the fence just above the weir or go through the gate a little higher and simply work your way up the channel. There are just a couple of deep places where you need to get out on the bank for a few yards. All the plentiful woody debris is good fish territory. At the top of the fishing, go into the field on the right bank and follow the game-keeper's track (also a foot path) back down and you eventually wind up back at the footbridge. On this day the curious young steers in the main field didn't bother me, but they did manage to break through a fence into a field of fresh-planted winter wheat - chaos!

8 Grayling

Tried many different strategies but to no avail. No rain for several days found wading very dangerous on bedrock. No fish caught other than a few very small trout no bigger than 4 inches in length. They were taking dry flies. 1 Salmon spotted rising to surface and dropping back into pool. Lovely setting shame the fish were not playing!

What an incredible day weather wise for near November. It started off misty and warm before turning sunny and hot, 19 degrees celcius in the shade! It clouded over later and got back to a more normal temperature.
To the fishing. I concentrated my efforts on the bottom field and took a barbel on the second cast but had no more bites until the afternoon when I had a second fish after trying a couple of other swims. Both fish were around the 5lb mark and caught on straight lead and boilie and pellet. A lovely place to spend some time in autumn.

2 Barbel

River low and clear but weather very mild and cloudy so did not know what to expect. Turned out to be a very good afternoon with barbel to 9lb-3oz on pellet and feeder. However, they switched off early and I caught a solitary chub in the last hour and a half. Just the same a great session on a lovely stretch of the Wye.

5 Barbel, 1 Chub

All fish came in the last hour as light was going.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Ty-Newydd at its most picturesque on this mild, autumnal day. Heavy nymphing between Gravelly Pool and Bachawy brook resulted in steady catches throughout the middle part of the day. Mostly small and medium sized fish but with one out of season Trout topping a pound. At one point, fishing a team of three nymphs MT had two fish on the same cast. Not that unusual except on this occasion a ‘mixed brace’ one a Grayling and the other a Trout - there should be a name for that!

A couple of Salmon provided an acrobatic side show. The (temporary) gate arrangement near Bathing Pool is something of a ‘death trap’.

7 Trout, 13 Grayling

A pleasant, dry and warm day for the time of year. Four good size grayling taken on dry fly.

3 Trout, 4 Grayling