Feedback & Reports

Good barbel and chub catches have been reported from the Rectory on the upper Wye this December in the relatively stable river conditions, including a 14lb barbel and several at 12lb.

Fantastic beat with some lovely deep pools, very accessible, only fished a few hours and couldn’t find the grayling!

A beautiful day on Dolgau. Very quiet morning fishing Bridge and Glanrhos pools, but albeit what seemed like perfect grayling conditions there were no bites. I broke for lunch and decided to try below the bridge and straight into a nice Grayling, then another. Moved down to Oak pool with nothing so back up to the Bridge pool and another 2 Grayling. Taking on Sawyers Killer Bug and Duracell Copper Top. Clear water so 4X and 5X tippet was the battle winner.
Wonderful place to be.

4 Grayling

Lovely day out in the water, weather was overcast and about 6C. 2 OOS trout from my first 5 casts just below the church on the slow water, both on size 18 silver ptn under dry as indicator. All grayling taken on same fly above the church upto the weir. Also spotted what I think was a salmon laying just above the rapids below church.

2 Trout, 4 Grayling

Good last day on a river for 2024. Netted x6 grayling (+ 1 osBT). Hooked another x4 grayling that came off plus x2 large osBT. x2 netted grayling good size with x4 being standards. 1 as pictured with very distinctive scar on left flank and maybe identified if caught again.

Shrimp patterns worked the best.

Water very clear and has been steadily dropping over the past 5 days. Most grayling seemed to be in deeper sections of runs not pools or riffles.

0830-1530 session with a break for lunch at 1300. x4 grayling AM with x2 PM. All fish from below “no fishing section”. Lot of otter prints visible in lower section and a few dippers seen.

Super day via Fishing Passport.

6 Grayling

One barbel and a chub caught from the middle of the beat Both on small pellets.
A lovely beat - excellent instructions and banks well maintained.
Some slippy banks but nothing too extreme

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

River low clear and cold, blue skies and sun knew a struggle was the order of the day but pleasantly surprised with 10 nice chub throughout the day on feeder, better than the expected blank!

10 Chub

A good number of small trout and grayling, with the odd larger fish in the mix. Some showing signs of predation, but the river otherwise in fine form, and the beat looking stunning. An enjoyable day.

12 Trout, 6 Grayling

Plenty of grayling up to 1 1/4 lbs. All on French nymphs. Nice stretch of water, but a huge amount of litter and rubbish in and around the water.

17 Grayling

Water still pushing through, so not that many swims fishable but managed to hook 4 grayling and get 2 to the net on trotted maggot. 6-12”

2 Grayling