Feedback & Reports

As previous reports have said the river is very hard work at the moment.Not a single knock in 12 hours fishing despite trying different swims,possibly only the second time i have failed to get a bite on the Wye!.
Nice to see the fishery has notices now and well done for the new steps making access safer.
Please note there is a caravan rally in the bottom field at the moment.

river running clear one grilse 4lbs from Madox on the fly , but more interesting a dozen teepees on the far bank more like the Little Bighorn than a salmon beat , bring on the 7th cavalry ?

1 Salmon

Despite some rain raising the water levels for a while there was a surprising lack of activity across the beat. I saw one salmon splash, but they all must surely be still there and just didn't make an appearance.

On my second trip in a row here, on my first meaningful cast, I caught a 2lb trout... and promptly lost it. Hey ho... I did catch 11 others up to 1/2lb and two dace, I now think they are. The larger one was 1 1/2lb. I'm not up on my coarse fish... this one was yellowish like the belly of a trout but with red fins. A fine fish it was too. The wind was horrendous , blowing all over the place and particularly against every cast I attempted!

11 Trout, 2 Other

Lovely beat and fish moving but none attached to my fly sadly. Some canny tactics required here I reckon.

River low, nothing much to report

Wet start to the day and had to move several times to find the fish. River still very low and will no doubt fish better when we have had some decent rainfall. Colin has kept the path well strimmed making access to the lower part of the beat much easier although we didn't venture to the end. Stuck to legering with feeder and pellets but will bring the trotting rod next time.

8 Barbel, 12 Chub

Nothing caught

3 each caught spinner and worm. Not a bad day

6 Trout

4 x trout 7-10 inches, Rusty Klinkhammer. Fishing in the rain this morning and gave up after a few hundred yards as the brook became suddenly extremely muddy.

4 Trout

I parked where the map said to and then tried to walk to the start of the beat. The choice of routes were walking down the scary A470, or over the fields with frisky herds and multiple barbed-wire fences - both with significant downside! So, I got back to the car and drove to the Brecon Industrial Estate/Business Park to park the car at the start of the beat.
In terms of the fishing I saw plenty of fish but disappointingly blanked. I was on a dry but really this beat needs you to tumble nypmphs through the boulders and bedrock to find those trout hiding there. I saw a few rises to sporadic hatch but I just couldn't get close enough to present the dry well enough as the water was gin-clear despite the downpours overnight. I'll definately come back to The Tarrell with my high-stick.