Feedback & Reports

14 Perch. We only had time to fish for 6 hours. The perch were everywhere and it was difficult to get through them to catch trout but in the end found the right combination.
It was a lot of fun.

3 Trout, 14 Other

Superb days fishing. Arrived at 11.30am to find fish rising. Good LDO hatch and some march brown and brook dun. Landed 6 nice trout including 3* 2lb trout and one lunker smashed the tippet. If I had not been so rusty then would have landed 12-15 trout - kept missing them and casting into strong upstream wind made things tricky. Pied fly catching, redstarts, bleating lambs and rolling hills.... ah Wales in the Spring can't be far from heaven!

6 Trout

A very late feedback from Wyebank
Caught my first salmon from Wyebank this morning est 14lbs on size 10 double barbless green highlander in Wyebank run, upstream from the crib.
The river bed is smothered in sedimentation and a fair bit of filamentous algae on the Wyebank crib looking "very healthy"!
Very large hatches of grannom since Friday. This morning every square metre of water surface over the shallows had between 2 and 4 grannom.

1 Salmon

Only saw two fish rise all day tried various methods, only fish seen, caught by a kingfisher.

The cold wind ment that a hatch was unlikely and I did not see a fish rise. One trout obliged by attaching itself to my goldhead ptn.

1 Trout

2 x trout 10 and 15 inches, spiders. It's still pretty cold, up there at Brecon, and on this day we had a very strong downstream wind. Locals were telling me that March Browns have been coming off, regular as clockwork from one o'clock on most days recently, but the trout have unaccountably not been reacting. On this day, the one clock hatch of March Browns happened, just as foretold, and lasted about 15 minutes or so. Some large trout did react on this occasion, and I managed to lose two of them hooked on a dry fly and took a small one on a spider. About an hour later, another hatch on another pool, but this time no rises at all although the mallard ducks were having a wonderful time gobbling up the big flies. When it was all over, out of the blue as it were, a nice 15 inch trout took on a Woodcock and Hare's Lug fished well down, just to be contrary, although I was suitably grateful of course. Quite a confusing afternoon altogether.
PB of Upton on Severn reports (20/4/13 Chainbridge) being similarly confused in an attempt to match the grannom hatch - I do sympathise! If you tie flies, try some of the emergers designed by Dave Collins of Moccas (you will find them on Google), or another approach is to fish a team of spiders across the river and just under the surface, especially in the early stages of the hatch as the pupae are coming up. A yellowish-brown Hare's Lug and Plover on a size 14 or 16 seems to work quite often.

2 Trout

The first salmon of the season for the Nyth, caught on a 1 inch black and yellow tube in the Cafn Stream on the 4th cast.

1 Salmon

No salmon caught, only hooked a small trout. River was coloured with a green tinge to it.

1 Trout

Very pleased to fish this well looked after beat, no fish caught, one salmon around 25lb did head and tail right under my rod tip in the Vanstone pool, but despite a lot of attention from me could not tempt it to take.

Took a punt on the upper river as fish had been caught and seen in this area. However despite near perfect conditions nothing touched or seen. Lovely water here though and I will crack it this year.