Feedback & Reports

30/08/15 warm, overcast day, light wind. Some light rain, heavy at times. Fished the top section of the beat with feeder tactics. Good, healthy size fish with several in the 9-10lb bracket.
I could go on and wax lyrical about this beat, the quality of the fishing, the beauty of the location but I would soon run out of superlatives. So, to keep it short and sweet I will simply say that for both my mate and I, 'it was a great days fishing'!

21 Barbel, 1 Chub

Had a very pleasant days fishing in stunning surroundings, even the rain in the afternoon did not spoil the day. All fish fell to feeder and pellet.

9 Barbel, 16 Chub, 1 Other

A good days sport. Most fish were taken towards the bottom end of the beat with pellet feeder.

12 Barbel, 4 Chub

I had planned to fish the Edw but arrived to find it high and coloured after overnight rain. Came back down and opted for the Hindwell which proved a good choice.
I was a bit over gunned with a 9ft 3 weight but with some improvised casting and commando style hands and knees fishing I fished French leader with 2 Tungsten bead nymphs. Caught a dozen lovely Trout from the faster water the biggest at 14 inches. Avoiding all the small Trout in the pool tails was difficult, once spooked they would race off and put the whole pool down. The only downside was a Cormorant fishing about halfway up the beat! In 4 hours fishing I only got as far as Knill farm.

12 Trout

2 Trout

All caught on a cats whiskers fly.

3 Trout

3 Barbel

Warm wet day. Water a little coloured presumably from recent rain. Plenty of fly life amongst the alders but no rise. Two small 7" trout taken on dun and GRHE (sinking by this time in the almost incessant light rain). River bottom smothered everywhere in algae growth - not healthy - nitrates?. Himalayan balsam everywhere; saw 1 dipper, wagtail and a hare. Lovely area but not supporting the amount of wildlife I would expect - nature in retreat again.

2 Trout

River Taff. We arrived about 11am, too late. Fish had average activity on surface, half hour lost for getting right dry fly choice. Blue-grey klinkhammer, I catch 2 brown trout and fish size was little bit over 1 pound. Other 3 fish was smaller then 25 cm. Water level and colour was excellent. I spend good time on river Taff.
Bad thing, rubbish!!!! Empty plastic bottles and cans, plastic bags, shopping trolleys and child bicycle. This everything can find in river and close to the river. I very surprised that fishery and members don't care about this matter. Fishermans please clean after self this not so hard take your empty launch package and put in rubbish bin.
MTAA Note: We know that we have a problem with waste/rubbish. The association does various clean ups on parts of the river with Keep Wales Tidy and just normal members doing their bit. However, with the river Taff being an urban river it is pretty hard to keep up with it all. In time we hope to eradicate all rubbish.

5 Trout

Caught on fly

3 Trout