Feedback & Reports

With the rain clearing and the Brecon gauge up a few inches I made a last decision to fish the evening session. Rewarded with 5 trout 9-15 inches + several missed or lost. First 2 to small tungsten hairs ear nymph in pocket water and the rest on a parachute adams in the riffles and heads of pools. Lovely atmospheric still evening with heavy cloud.

5 Trout

The major difficulty of the day was the amount of dis-lodged weed floating through the swims in large and small rafts, making some swims unfishable. The day was overcast with some rain. The fishing was better than expected and not many canoes went through. Unfortunately, the farmers diesel pump was extracting water from the river until later in the day disrupting the tranquility.

4 Barbel, 4 Chub

Fished an evening ticket (after 17:00) and started at about half-five in extremely humid conditions. A steady trickle of various colour mayflies coming off and fish rising fairly steadily; to the point that we were preoccupied for the first hour with covering rising fish in the slow sections - ones we seemed to spook bar a 1lb WBT taken on a spider of all things.
Leapfrgging up through the faster was where the action was more consistent. Four fish of 8-9oz were taken on Parachute Adams, Sherry Spinner and GRHE before fading light stopped us just short of Poplar pool. The fish were still rising with alacrity when we left and we only did so because wading was becoming very tricky indeed in the gloaming.
A beautiful stretch and one which we'll visit very soon to cover the four-fifths we didn't even look at!

5 Trout

Just the one change chub today. Really worked the section hard but a difficult day.

1 Chub

Just fished for the morning and had seven fish. The river looked very low and needs some rain. Nice beat but my planned trotting didn't come off as the water was so low so a bit disappointed.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub

Several salmon seen but would not take.

Wet fly, full day, Welsh rain on and off throughout. Great beat with good access from the car park at the caravan place. Wading/river access is good when the river's relatively low. Largest fish caught approx 0.6lb and three other smaller fish. Lost another that felt larger.

4 Trout

I would recommend using the upper parking area (despite the overgrown brambles)if fishing by the bridge or islands as it's quite a long trek over several rikety stiles from the lower parking area. I was disappointed to find a very noisy generator/pump extracting water from the river. I understand life goes on and fishing is secondry to agriculture but never the less it did prevent me from fishing my usual swim. River was low as you would expect at this time of year. No Barbel to be seen, anglers on the opposite bank didn't appear to be having much luck either. A nearby pub by the upper parking provided a good evening meal and a place to drown my sorrows.

2 Chub

I caught one trout on worm. 3 hooked but broke away. Damp and drizzle weather wise, but enjoyed the day none the less.

1 Trout

Fished afternoon, 2 barbell. River started to rise as I was leaving. Wish I was fishing tomorrow.

2 Barbel