Feedback & Reports

Lovely beat and enjoyed the fishing even though we were baked in the 25 degree heat. Saw 6 salmon but didn't connect with any of them! Will book again another day.

Another very hot day but river in good condition. We caught well in all the swims we fished except the first swim below the woods which did not produce as well this time. Barbel to over 9lb landed on various pellet based baits. Take note that there is a strenuous walk involved to get to the lower sections of this beat so travel light.

24 Barbel, 10 Chub

After a slow start the fish switched on from early afternoon until we packed up at 19:30. The best barbel was 8.12 with chub to 3.8 and all the fish were caught on feeder with different combinations of pellet. I will remember this day for the 3 otters that briefly turned up in my swim before heading back downstream having checked me out.

22 Barbel, 9 Chub

3 Trout

All caught on float using 8mm carp pellets. I think its called watercraft..great location.

1 Trout, 5 Barbel, 11 Chub

Grhe but had two missed hits on a dry.

1 Trout

6 brownies, 1 chub 4lb. Mixture of dry and wet flies. daddies doing well. No fish taken.

6 Trout, 1 Other

2 grayling, 9 brownies. Caught on mix of dry & wet fly inf. daddies. We found two access gates were padlocked, one at top end of beat to get access to the foot path, and the access to footpath in middle of beat near the bridge.
(WUF note: former can be scaled but builders should have left access to the latter- will investigate)

9 Trout, 2 Grayling

My second day fishing the Passport scheme this week, picked this beat to be hopefully different than the last (Llanddewi), and indeed it was, much wider more open but with more features than the beat photos suggest. From reading the reviews and beat description I had decided it would be an ideal beat to make my first attempt at French nymphing. I fished the whole beat from 11 until about 5 on a really hot September day, the river was crystal clear but very low. Throughout the day I saw no sign of any fish. I'm a complete beginner on rivers so my river craft is in its infancy but I fished all the most likely fish holding spots to no avail. I really enjoyed the day, the solitude, the scenery, the challenge of a new technique, everything I wanted.

2 rods fishing a team of three, only one grayling caught of about a pound, sun shone not much wind, so a great days fishing on the upper Wye.

1 Grayling