Feedback & Reports

A cold northerly front made the weather much cooler than in previous days, and there was even fresh snow on the beacons in the morning. Fortunately, there were sporadic hatches of large dark olives and march browns from 12.30 through till 2.30. Some trout came on to the rise but none would accept my artificial dries. I did manage four brown trout up to around a pound on north country spiders fished across/down in the glide below the A40 road bridge and in the riffles of the pool above the bridge. Most of the trout were caught on march brown spiders on the middle dropper, and tied with a stripped quill body, brown partridge hackle and coq de leon tail fibbets.
The combi lock on the last gate worked fine for me.

4 Trout

Spinning in the snow,that's a first for me. Spun for a few hours, nothing caught.

Drove to the Wye through the snow! Fortunately the weather cleared and we had a sunny but cold day (3-9'C). Gauge at 2'9" which is on the high side for this beat, we were told by the owner. Water slightly coloured but not too problematic. We had 2 offers on the fly (sunk lines) and none on a spinner. Thoroughly enjoyed fishing this beat and we shall certainly give it another go!

1 Chub

Seen one good fish but no takers, met Terry, he showed me around the beats and we had great chat, nice fishery.

A good hatch of March Browns produced a brace of nice 12" trout on a dry F fly. River full of litter though - shame really. It would be very pretty between Quakes Yard and Aberfan otherwise. Wading can be slippery over the large stones and boulders in the river bed. Would recommend a wading staff
Thank you to MAA for providing a nice day on the river

2 Trout

Lovely spring day's fly fishing. Great to be out seeing chub cruising, trout rising and the swallows returning. Caught a 14" trout on the last cast of the day.

1 Trout

First time to fish this venue and thoroughly enjoyed. 17 fish (trout) caught all together 15 returned safely.
Rangers attended on two occasions very helpful and polite.
Will be booking again soon.

17 Trout

Started fishing at noon. Occasional fish rising. Just before 1pm, a nice hatch of March Brown, which stimulated a reasonable but short lived rise. Had a 1lb 13oz trout on a dry MB. Some olives hatching sporadically from 1.30pm until about 3pm. Five more trout between the two of us. AT 8C - 10C, WT 8C. River at a good fishing height and clear. Dry, cloudy, sunny periods in afternoon. Feeling cold in breeze but generally a pleasant day.

6 Trout

A very fishy beat. A few good hatches throughout the day and managed to take one nice trout trout (1- 1.5lb) off the top with a Klinkhammer. Had a couple of knocks to a deep nymph.

1 Trout

Early morning conditions were very cold, I had to retreat to the car to warm up! It got warmer thereafter, but the river was probably about 1ft too high on the day.
I saw one fresh fish just below the rock pool, but that was the only sight I had during the day.
It's a nice stretch of river, and with lower water most of it would be wadeable. I'll keep an eye on the river height and come back for another day.