Feedback & Reports

I came to this beat a number of years ago and it defeated the novice fisherman I was. This is a great beat but very wild and fast running water. I had taken a quick look the evening before and due to a very rainy day the Grywne Fawr was running high, fast and the colour of chocolate. This is a short river and it comes up fast and goes down fast too. 16 hours later and the river was in great nick although running fast. 13 WBT came to dry but only after a grim couple of hours on the lower part of the beat. A great beat.

13 Trout

Just a very short closing session on a really enjoyable 4 days fishing on WUF waters. We drove past Grywne Fawr the evening before and viewed a thundering chocolate soup from the day's rain. Surely no fishing the next day. Unbelievably arrived 15 hours later and the river was down to a fishable level and clear. Easy to wade, all fishy places offered a back cast, would allow no more than 4 hours to fish this one. Didn't really see any rising fish but tempted 6 up to a dry (Adams), one a clonker for such a small stream. Quiet and pretty, a lovely place to cast a fly.
A lovely way to end a 4 day trip with my brother-in-law - around 140 wbt between us all on dries, Kings Arms in Abergavenny a comfortable base and set in some of this island's most beautiful landscape.

6 Trout

Just a few small common carp caught today. Weighing around the 6lb mark. Dreadful weaher: thunderstorms and lightning. But all in all a good day

A male 34 inch fish, making it 15lb. Caught on a single hook FC.

1 Salmon

Arrived in drizzle to a river high and with the colour of 5 day old stewed tea. No hatch to speak of but managed to tempt 20 WBT on a small green may and Umberto Oreglini's March Brown dry variant. (check it out on YouTube).
Great day.

20 Trout

An 8lb salmon on fly from the Nyth at 7.30pm. Previous fish reported was 10lbs.

1 Salmon

A last minute booking and arrived at noon to a rising dirty river. First visit to this beat and pleasantly surprise with the variety of water. Not good for the fly today but gave it a go anyway, [time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted], and enjoyed groping my way down the section below the footbridge but didn't push my luck in the last pool, wading stick or not! Nothing on spinners either but I think I’ll try again another day when conditions are more favourable.

1 Trout

1 Trout

1lb.caught on worm

1 Trout

River running very fast and deep. Not good conditions after a lot of unexpected heavy rain. Not ideal access to this beat as parking in the village can be tricky.