Feedback & Reports

If anyone wishing to fish MTAA/merthyr Tydfil angling association stretches of the upper river Taff and would like information on access points to the river and how the river is fishing please feel free to email me on daniel.1986@live.co.uk

10.30am 05/13/2015
River Wye Ross area.
21.5lbs fresh, short and deep. Weighed and witnessed
Devon minnow

1 Salmon

2 x trout 10 - 15 inches, Waterhen Bloa. Another rather cold day, certainly colder than the weatherman promised. Nothing at all until about 12.30 when a very sparse hatch of large dark olives began. I think I had counted only a dozen or so by 2.30pm when they stopped. One rising fish seen, in a place I couldn't reach. And just three takes all through the same period on spiders. Two resulted in fish. And the third came viciously out of the blue while I was wool-gathering, looking around and thinking what an attractive estate Penpont is...and broke the leader, I am afraid to say. It's been a while since I fished Penpont early season, which tends to leave me feeling I have earned the sort of comments which used to appear on school reports. You know - "could do better", "need to try harder" etc. I might have done better with nymphs, but it's somehow more attractive to try to follow the hatch. An interesting day and no doubt things will get easier as the water warms.

2 Trout

Managed another couple of hours on the upper taff/MTAA waters today. Did not get onto the water til gone 14:00 but there was a good couple of ldo' and brook dunns/March browns on the water with a couple of fish feeding in a couple of runs despite it being late in the day for so early on in the season. Managed a dozen fish up to 2 1/2lb on nymphs and dry.

12 Trout

Fished the bottom end of the beat from 8am-6pm. Overnight temp of -2 wasn't great and the river was pushing through (1.1m) and running clear, the water felt very cold! We fished the float during the morning but bites where few and far between with only one trout around 1.5lb. We them moved over to the feeder in the afternoon (pellet & maggots) and only had the two bites, a barbel around 6.5lb and a chub of 2.5lb. All in all a tough day. On reflection fishing the slower deeper water further up on the beat might have been more productive.

1 Trout, 1 Barbel, 1 Chub

A frost during the night I suspect knocked back any real chance of getting a late season barbel or two. The chub also seemed to be somewhat elusive although we managed to get a small 2 pounder on the bank. Fished feeder and pellet which, on reflection, was probably the wrong approach in the conditions. River had a decent flow but fairly clear. This stretch is not prolific, but in the right conditions will probably provide some good sport. Will try again next season.

1 Chub

Fished the upper Taff from Quakers Yard up today. Water had dropped a little over night and despite the cold downstream wind all day I managed to catch trout up to 1 1/2lb as well as loosing a much larger fish 3lb plus on both dries and nymphs.

Salmon spinning - blank. A bright day, cold wind and a high river - 2 foot 5 inches at Llanstephan - which doesn't particularly suit this beat. Still, I tried the various lies without success and put back quite a collection of trout of different sizes.

Two fish caught on worm with pop up.

2 Trout

River was in flood, caught nothing.