Feedback & Reports

Arrived to a perfect river, 10 deg and 2 foot on and dropping.
Fished 3 different swims and had fish out of all of them. Had 3 good Barbel, one going 9lb all on maggots. Plus 5 good chub plus a few chublets. Lost 2 Barbel on bedrock. Wonderful day, the big barbel came at 4pm just as the light was going.

3 Barbel, 5 Chub

River had dropped since Sunday and was slower and better colour. Weather was mild but a strong downstream wind made for some difficulty. Had fish sporadically through the day, 2 barbel were 4lb and 6lb, all fish were caught on meat with pellets and meat in feeder. Decent autumn day. Fished in first field on the inside of main flow.

2 Barbel, 5 Chub

Fished from 10am-3pm, plenty of surface activity from grayling and a salmon. Took a 14" fish in the first hour but had to wait until much later for the other two, one of which was a huge 17½" the other 12". I fished some excellent barbless tungsten nymphs (barblessflies.com) and lost several other fish who shook themselves off. Fish took size 18 nymphs under a Klinkhammer. Came across a freshly dead (suffocated) trout which was strange.
Good to have met Louis from WUF there and learnt about the work which was done on the river.

3 Grayling

Another perfect day, warm/overcast, no wind, decent flow, bit of colour etc. Using the tried and trusted pellet/feeder landed 4 barbel and 1 chub, all of average size, around 7.5-8lb for the barbel, 3lb for the chub.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

No sign of any fish. Day was curtailed by frustration of autumn leaves!

2 Chub, 1 Other

A mild still day and the river well up with some colour. Started around noon and had a barbel around 51/2lbs on pellet and feeder an hour later. Then all went quiet so I changed to meat and caught only a smallish chub. Moved to the bottom field but not a touch there for an hour so returned to my first swim. It was nearly dark when my last cast produced a bite and I was into an obviously good fish which went 91/2 lbs on the scales. A slow day but a very satisfactory end to the autumn's fishing.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

13 x grayling 6-16 inches, 8 x out of season trout 6-13 inches, long trotting. Water high at 2 feet on the Llanstephan gauge, but not too coloured and falling off slightly as the day went on. A nice average size of grayling with a lot of 15 inch fish.

13 Grayling

Conditions could not have been better for mid November, water had a bit of push and colour and not a breath of wind. Temp in the mid teens. I can only assume it caught the fish by surprise as they were not feeding to the extent that I thought they might. Nevertheless I caught two barbel
on pellet/feeder tactics of average size around 7/7.5lb, both late afternoon. As always, a great day out.

2 Barbel

1 Chub