Feedback & Reports

River was very low. Managed 3 trout (I think stocked) on a JW Nymph. Very tricky, couldn't temp anything with a dry. Reports of a dead salmon found on the beat last week. Will be back!

3 Trout

2 small brownies, dries.

2 Trout

Tried hard to tempt fish showing in a couple of pools but they seemed to be completely switched off in low water conditions. Thank you.

New owner originally from USA working in London Spinning 8lb fish caught in Cafn Stream

1 Salmon

First time on this beat in the summer, so a bit of a learning curve. Fished a morning session and an evening session. It took a while to locate some feeding fish, several decent looking swims didn't produce a bite before I fished an average looking swim in the second field and was into fish quickly. Probably should have done better, lost a couple of Barbel to inexplicable hook pulls, but never mind. Not as many canoes as I expected!

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

9 lb cock fish mepps

1 Salmon

Pleasant afternoons fishing, very few fish rising, 4 wbt, 5 salmon Parr to bead head nymph

4 Trout, 5 Other

On what seemed what should have been a perfect day: 9" at Llanstephan, water 17 degrees (so little different to a few days ago) with not too much wind, no sun and little rain, where were the insects? Not that we expect many at this time of year but, during the latter part of last week, there were some bugs about, and so, some rises - fish were actively feeding and certainly looking up on the Upper Wye, as testified by catches above and below this part of the river, both at Craig Llyn and Ty Newydd. What a difference 48 hours or more can make? Today we struggled, with hardly a rise seen all day, virtually no insects, but no fish taken on nymphs, either using Tenkara or traditional methods. All fish were taken with olive or hare's ear emerger patterns, dead drifting traditionally or induced, Tenkara-style. We caught some grayling of 12-14" but most were ~10" and the trout were all 8-10 inchers. Few salmon parr active either, so distinctly a very off day - but why? We haven't a clue!! Answers on a postcard please!

10 Trout, 10 Grayling

Travelled back home today so fished the afternoon only. Managed 2 barbel from the top field then it went very quiet so moved below the woods. This is the lowest I've seen the river when fishing Sugwas so it was very interesting to be able to see the bottom in pegs I've caught from in the past.
We catapulted out some pellets in a known swim and saw 1 barbel and some chub almost immediately, however after catching 1 chub it went quiet. We fished various swims for the afternoon then when packing up at 5pm I spotted a barbel again - after putting out some more pellets we saw 6 barbel in the swim with fish flashing constantly. We quickly set up again and gave it 30mins but couldn't coax one into taking the bait.
A hard but enjoyable day and I can confidently say that if we had been fishing until dark then we would have had a few barbel. I think the low water level put the fish off feeding this afternoon.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Last day of my week's fishing holiday, first time on Ty-Newydd - stunning beat with glorious views from the fishing lodge. Tried the fast water in Gravelly run to start, but no joy there, so I headed up to just below where the Clettwr joins, and as I arrived the river sprang into life with fish rising & jumping all over. No great visible hatch so I cast my trusty Grayling Steel Blue some 20 yds (no visible rises there) and an almost instant hit resulted in a nice grayling c. 12", next 10 casts all produced almost instant takes, a mixture of grayling & trout between 10"-16" - fantastic sport, all fish in great condition & safely returned.
All went quiet again after that short spell of incredible fishing, amazing how the river can just suddenly switch on & off like that. Went home tired but happy, great end to the week - will be bback to try the rest of this beat soon!

3 Trout, 8 Grayling