Feedback & Reports

My first full day on this beat... the first time was an awful day and we left early. The water was very low on the Brecon scale, but there is a lot of deep water here. The first thing I did when I got in the river was frighten a 3lb trout. I hooked several of his cousins but my strike rate has been poor for some reason this year and they all got off.
I had one exciting experience though.... I was fishing for a row of rising fished and hooked one. As it moved i could see it was rather large.... I thought 'That must be 4 or 5lb... Record trout, here I come!!', but as we fought, I could see the scales were wrong for a trout. I landed a 6lb chub! It was a very fine fish and I of course returned it. I think all the other rises were chub too.
It might not be a target species, but it was an exciting fly-fishing experience, and none of us can ask more than that.

1 Chub

River level low water relativly clear no fish showing nil return. Did see two dippers and one kingfisher.

Water low and very clear lots of fish fry. No fish rising as early afternoon had one trout on GB hares ear.

1 Trout

10 to 15 small Barbel to 4lb. River very low.

10 Barbel

Fishing hard due to very clear low water conditions, caught a nice brown around 1 1/4 lb on a dry daddy.

1 Trout

This beat needs a bit of clearance. From the parking I walked to bottom of Cilieni stream, started fishing about 11am and got back to the car by 3pm - only half the beat done! I probably needed a chain saw rather than a fishing rod but If you like it very wild then it is fun. With 75% pools without a viable cast, the remaining 25% are precious with stealth a priority, and this is why it took me so long. 11 trout caught on various dry. There was little rising so needed to target the fishy water but they came up. Trick on this beat is not to get too frustrated and take it very slow.

11 Trout

Fished 8am to 8pm. Groundbait and pellet feeder. River running low and very clear with clear blue sky, not ideal. Both fish came late afternoon.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Lovely evening in lovely surroundings... very hard work catching but very rewarding. Six fin perfect fighting fit browns on one of my own pheasant tail variants, I found it very hard to match the hatch in the evening. All of my 'dry' offerings were rejected apart from one a small dark hopper variant which didn't look anything like the hatch! The best fish around 18" fell to the nymph in the small bay in front of the bird hut just over half the way up the east side of the lake. I think I had the entire 280 acres to myself so no shortage of places to stop and cast but the water table still high for the time of year so I did on occasion struggle with the back cast. All fish safely returned!

6 Trout

Pleasant short session on the river. Lots of fly activity. Although struggled to find rising fish.

5 x trout 6-10 inches, Rusty Klinkhammer. Very low and clear.

5 Trout