Feedback & Reports

My last day of the trout season ended as it began - in failure! I caught 5 small trout, all returned, but haven't had a sniff at a bigger fish all season. Later in the day 5 other fishermen turned up on the same stretch as me, from the town bridge down. Even though there were no other bookings mentioned, fishing on this stretch seems not exclusive.

WUF note - It is mentioned in the Passport that this section of water has unlimited rods and up to 10 rods are bookable online as it is part of a Clubs waters.

Very hard going and only 2 chub and 3 barbel between 3 of us. Tried a variety of swims and methods but the fish were not having any of it.

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

A good fun day's fishing off the croy's, resulting in 8 barbel to 6lb and a nice 4lb chub. All on pellets.

8 Barbel, 1 Chub

Not much to say really, the catch return says it all.

We arrived to find the river very low and clear and with unseasonably warm conditions and knew it was going to be tough!
Saturday proved the best day with some cloud cover. Meagre pickings in the morning and day but a feeding frenzy ensued as the light dwindled.
We finished with 18 barbel and 11 chub, which was pretty damn good given the conditions.
Most fish were taken from the field swim above the parking on a mixture of pellets and boillies or a combo of the two. The best anglers of our group managed to catch in bright daylight and only the very best from the lower reaches of the beat where real class was needed to extract fish from between the trees.
All of the troup lost big fish (some through poor reel management) and some managed to catch on another's rod which was fine the first time around but when it happened again the rod had to be wrestled from a reluctant angler who was hell bent on poaching and glory-justice prevailed!
Great weekend had by all.
Biggest fish, 8lb 5oz - good arrows!
Thanks again to the Foundation, we will return!

18 Barbel, 11 Chub

WBT to 12 inches caught on ptn's in the morning and on Adams fished upstream in the afternoon.
First time on this beat and we will be back, it's an excellent beat.

7 Trout

Very awkward access and difficult wading spoilt this otherwise good day. Fished from 11.30am to 3pm.
Three WBT caugt on nymph's with one fish of exceptional size estimated at 5lb plus.

3 Trout

River levels low which enabled access to parts of this beat that would otherwise be tricky to fish.
Relative novice and myself caught three WBT to 10 inches on pheasant tail nymph patterns.

3 Trout

4 x grayling 14-17 inches, Grayling Steel Blue, John Storey and Hare's Ear, size 18. Jon Beer once said to me: "The thing about Aberbwtran is that it's really only one pool." That's one way of looking at it and certainly it isn't a full day's fishing - more like a couple of hours which could be combined with another wild stream booking. But it's certainly a very good pool. There are also some shallow gravel flats and a fast gutter at the bottom for those who like to search the gutters. On this day, the grayling were in a diffident mood, so it all took a while. I fished a dry fly to the very few rises which occurred in between showers (which weren't supposed to happen according to the forecast I looked at). In between casting I sat on the bank resting the pool. If I was Mr Crabtree I would have smoked my pipe. All very relaxing.

1 Trout, 4 Grayling

9" on the gauge at Wyesham, 58 degree water temperature. Overcast with hazy sunny intervals and very light wind.
16lb hen from the tail of the Cottage Flats, safely returned and went away strongly, Size 13 BSS. Great day for my first Wye Salmon!!

1 Salmon