Feedback & Reports

All on nymphs, all returned.

5 Trout

Beautiful conditions and lovely beat, but virtually no trout activity at all, despite a healthy but shortlived hatch of mayfly in the early evening. I couldn't understand it. It was around 17C air temperature and clearly not too cold for a hatch so where were the fish? Pity but I enjoyed the day nevertheless.

4 Trout

Not many fish rising but beautiful river conditions. I fished only on dry fly, on nymph it would have been even better.

5 Trout

The river was quite coloured and a little high. We fished in the morning and had reasonable success with mayfly patterns. I also returned at the very end of the day and had one more trout. Mayfly were coming off every now and then though not many trout were rising to them. This is a lovely beat and we will fish it again.

8 Trout

The river was slightly coloured but running very fast. The beat was a pleasure to fish and the occasional mayfly on the water brought sporadic rises. We saw several pools with big trout but could not tempt them. Both our (smallish) trout fell to French Partridge mayfly patterns. We did drop a plastic see-through fly box containing 50-60 may fly patterns somewhere along the beat but it was probably washed way down stream - if anyone should happen to find it, I would love to get it back - many hours at the fly bench were in that box! Would fish it again and take more time.

2 Trout

10 lbs fresh cock salmon on small pot bellied pig (cascade) double. Intermediate shooting head with 5` slow sinking tip.

1 Salmon

River was coloured and really pushing through; even in shallow riffles you could feel the strength of current. Anglers should take care as the current has gouged out deep, fast channels.
Great sport on Mayfly. I arrived at around midday and there was a steady hatch from about 1pm until 4.30pm, when a cool breeze came up and seemed to end it. I had lots of splashy rises to the fly, missing a lot (!), losing a couple and netting a few around the 8 to 9 inch mark but saw lots of trout much larger.
No fish taken.

5 Trout

Many thanks to the local rod who showed me how to do it within 5 mins of arriving! He very kindly advised a few spots and later his advice was invaluable in explaining how I might fly fish a small part of Llangoed pool and a small tube did the trick for a fresh 10lber. Quite simply would not have happened without local expert advice, so huge thanks!
Thanks as ever to WUF.

1 Salmon

Recent catch reports for this beautiful lake suggested I was either in for a feast or a famine: as things turned out it was somewhere in between. It's a long drive from where I live and I wasn't fishing until almost midday. Overcast skies and a cold southeasterly wind meant the first couple of hours were very quiet and I took only one small trout. As the day warmed and the wind dropped a bit there were a couple of flurries of activity, one in the early afternoon and another in the early evening. These helped me to take ten trout it total, the best of which was close to a pound and feeding only a couple of feet from the shore. I fished a team of wet flies with the Zulu and Green Peter taking most fish. When the fish were active I also had plenty of rises, swirls and missed takes which gave the impression the fish were not really feeding heavily. I have often encountered this behaviour fishing Irish loughs after periods of rain - the locals claimed it was because the rain had washed so much food into the lake that the fish were stuffed full. I find that a much more appealing explanation than straight forward incompetence!

10 Trout