Feedback & Reports

11 pound cock fish caught on gold headed black 1/2 inch tube fly from Bachawy pool at 11am Saturday morning on a floating line with float tip. River low and clear with no fish seen rising. Was grateful for a lucky cast, fish safely returned. Dry and bright, 11 inches on the Llanstephen gauge.

1 Salmon

Lovely river and plenty of action despite low water and bright sunshine. All fish caught on small black klinkhammer. Thanks to the Foundation for making it all possible.

4 Trout, 8 Grayling

Having been successful on this beat earlier in the season I was temped to return. However, water levels were well down and I saw very little fish activity. Missed one take on a dry fly. Saw a few small trout in the deeper pools but they were easily spooked. Wildlife (dipper, kingfisher, yellow wagtail etc) in abundance so a lovely day nevertheless!

2 on nymphs in a duo and 1 on a klinkammer in olive fishing NZ style. No other anglers but 40 plus canoeists, 3 of which hit me while wading. River Low and fast.

3 Chub

1 decent chub around 4lb caught late in the afternoon.
3 eels. Lots of very small dace and chub shoaling close in chased by jack pike.
The canoe traffic on the river from around 10am till about 5pm was continuous with occasional parties of 4 boats roped together with no consideration to avoid anyone fishing on either bank. Both our lines were rowed through a number of times, even fishing close in. With the exception of the canoes, which need addressing, it appears to be an excellent beat with cracking pegs throughout.

1 Chub, 3 Other

A pleasant afternoon: Three small but hard fighting wild brownies - all to a weighted GRHE. Despite covering most of the beat, I took all the fish under the bridge.

3 Trout

4 Trout

River was not fishable due to very low flows - it was less than ankle deep for most of the stretch and at one point was less than 2 feet wide. I walked the the entire beat and the few pools/areas of deeper water were full of algae. I only saw a handful of fish and didn't make a cast.

WUF note - Following this report we have closed the beat until water levels return to a reasonable fishing height. This water often does suffer from very low flows.

A great evenings fishing from 5:30pm to 8:30pm on ledgered pellet. The river was low and clear as previous but no debris…
6 Chub to 5lb. 3 Barbel - 8lb 9oz being the biggest (7lb+) & (6lb+).

3 Barbel, 6 Chub

A good day on the river and friendly advice from Charlie at the beat. The grayling, at 1/4lb and 3/4lb were taken on Goldhead hares ear nymph and the WBT taken on mixture of dry fly and nymph. Largest WBT about 1lb and 2 other smaller ones. All fish returned to water. A good beat which we will return.

3 Trout, 2 Grayling