Feedback & Reports

Arrived early after a couple hours drive. Found the river in the condition expected. Chocolate brown and pushing through at a rate of knots. Baited up and fished swims in the lower beat. Due to the conditions, we are only fishing a few metres from the bank in the creases and slacks. All fish came mid-late afternoon (4.08 chub and two small barbel in the 5-6lb bracket). All fish taken on pellet with a groundbait feeder. Really nice looking beat. Let's see what tomorrow brings.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Really nice day on one of the best beats on the permit. Fishing conditions were almost perfect with a dropping river and overcast clouds. Fish were hard to come by until late afternoon when they seemed to switch on. Best barbel, 7.5lb and the best chub, 5lb.
Will be booking again for next year for sure.

5 Barbel, 17 Chub

3 Barbel

All fish caught on a team of 3 wet flies, most fish caught on a red tag fly. Most Grayling were around 10 inches but I did catch one 17" Grayling. The by-catch out of season trout were all around 10" long. The conditions were a bit tricky with quite fast water and lots of leaves on the water, meaning that I had to remove leaves from at least one fly every few casts. I stayed in the Seven Stars Inn in Aberedw which I cannot recommend, although the staff were friendly and the rooms clean and comfortable they are directly above the main bar so are incredibly noisy. In my case there was a 21st birthday party on the first night of my stay which lasted until 1 in the morning and the second night had a live band which may as well have been in my room and continued until after 01:30. Not great when you want an early start.

4 Trout, 8 Grayling

After a fairly testing drive down a narrow bumpy lane we arrived to find the river at a reasonable level. We enjoyed the long walk despite being a touch apprehensive getting passed the cows with their young.
The fishing was slow and we only managed 1 Chub and a handful of small Dace plus a welcome first Wye gudgeon for us.
Despite the length of this stretch there are very few swims and with the Courtfield beat on the opposite bank it is understandable this stretch is seldom fished apart from by the numerous Kingfishers resident!!
Maybe in summer when the level is lower, there may be better prospects and our lack of experience probably did not help the poor return.

1 Chub, 10 Other

Very windy conditions, a hard (but enjoyable) days lure fishing. Between two anglers fishing from 08:30-18:00, we caught two rainbow trout and three brown trout (two undersized), plus two perch at dusk. We used a mixture of spinners, spoons, diving lipped minnows, and soft plastic swim baits. A beautiful water, very quiet (only saw a couple of other anglers), not much rubbish (though quite a lot of discarded mono line, why do they do it!?). Two fish taken.

5 Trout, 2 Other

Fished the waggler using maggot and once the canoes had departed caught steadily throughout the day. River levels had dropped nicely from earlier in the week and I had an enjoyable days fishing catching small chub.

16 Chub

Not much in the way of bites, just a couple each. One barbel about 5lbs and 2 chub up to 3 lbs. All fish caught on meat.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

1.15pm above Rhayader: caught my first ever Atlantic Salmon at the last gasp of the season on a 12 dark waddington. Slightly coloured hen of 9-10lb est. Tough fight with a hundred yards of inaccessable rapids below me. Probably did her a favour by getting her in quick(ish). Ten minutes of revival then took off like a shot. I am a very happy fisherman this evening.

1 Salmon

Nice days fishing, river slightly up but running fairly clear. 9 graying to 12 inches and 2 trout taken. All in top condition. All fish taken on nymphs under indicator. Near all woodland parts of the beat were not possible to fish due to high vegetation!

2 Trout, 9 Grayling