Feedback & Reports

Fished the first swim under the bridge road side. Used feeder with banded 6mm pellet over hemp. Had a chub around the 1lb mark followed by a few smaller ones. Chatted to a local guy who fished on the other bank he reckoned my swim wasn't one of the favoured spots so I moved down stream opposite him and watched while he had around ten barbel in a few hours. Local knowledge is a wonderful thing. At least I know what to do next time.

4 Chub

Only fished till 12.30. All caught on worm pop up. Good day, very relaxing and some good banter with other anglers and staff.

3 Trout

Myself and a friend fished the river from Abercanaid up towards Merthyr town. The water was a couple of inches up with a nice colour to it. There was a massive bwo hatch on with the air filled with flies. We both managed to catch 2 dozen plus fish each ranging from 12oz up to 2 1/2lb.

48 Trout

Couple of hours this morning - nice to see some extra flow but river well coloured and quite a lot of debris.
Three grayling 2 X 6" and 1 X 8" on gold ribbed hares ear.

3 Grayling

River very coloured after the thunderstorms and so were the Salmon 9lbs Hen and 8 lbs cock on fly , all in good condition and safely returned for their onward journey DT

2 Salmon, 1 Trout

Spent a good afternoon one this beat. I only manage a single fish but rose 2 others. I fished most of the beat with a 3.6m tenkara rod. I did not have too much trouble using this length rod.

1 Trout

River in perfect condition. 16lb hen Lady's pool. Cascade. 19.05 - just as The Archers started...

1 Salmon

Started in Rock Pool, had a trout just below rock on brass tube cascade. Three casts later had another pull which I expected to be another trout but rod kicked over fish took a few feet of line and came unstuck. 1 salmon lost and that was the only action for the day.

This ended up being a rather short session as having fished a couple of the Wild Stream beats earlier in the day I was feeling it by the time I got to Ty-Newydd. I love this place though and used it as a base. Taking breakfast here as the sun came up, coming back for lunch between fishing, and eating dinner as the sun went down.
2 trout caught and put back including my largest fish of the day a slim fish of 31cm.

2 Trout

I had forgotten just how much time and physical effort it can take to fish a wild stream of this nature, it is truly wild in it's nature. Fantastic! 12 trout all to Nymphs all returned + 1 salmon par.

12 Trout, 1 Other