Feedback & Reports

Beautiful autumn day. The river was clearing and falling, so the conditions looked auspicious. 2lb and 2.5lb wild browns caught on a small stoat's tail, but no sign of the larger cousins until virtually the last cast of the day. Then a 15lb hen salmon caught again on a small stoat's tail. As the salmon was landed two otters started playing in the pool in front of us. Hard to imagine a better end to the day.
Quick word about Glanusk. Very warm welcome from the estate office and useful advice on flies and which pools to concentrate efforts on. The banks and access are in excellent condition and the river there is swarming with dippers which is always a good sign. Cannot recommend more highly.

River 2ft 2" and 5ft visibility; near perfect. Fished the morning and had a cock salmon of 19lbs on a #6 Bann shrimp from the top of Rock pool which now resides in Abercynrig hatchery. Fish showing in all pools fished and had another offer in the Gravel catch.
In evening the other rod had 2 more salmon from the Rock pool.

8 barbel up to 8lb, all caught on pellet on a rising river, excellant fishing as usual many thanks.

Two small grayling caught on PTN. The river was quite high and rising during my visit. I covered most of the beat and never saw a single fish move on or near the surface. My hopes were raised for a moment when I heard several loud splashes under an oak tree. At first I though it was a big fish noisily taking something off the surface, but it turned out to be a clumsy sqirrel dropping acorns into the river. I found this a difficult day, but I'll be back.

There had been heavy overnight rain so the river was both rising and colouring up. Did not see a fish rise all day. Fished Czech nymph style and took half a dozen out of season trout and half a dozen grayling. Best fish was the first one - a grayling of a pound and a half or so but the others were all on the small side. Pink bugs proved the best patterns. Despite the awful weather (it continued to rain for most of the day) it was still a joy to be back on the Irfon. There cannot be many places that can match the beauty of this valley.

No salmon caught or even seen all day. Water level still high and a bit cloudy so wading access limited. Couldn't reach planks. However, very beautiful beat with plenty of wildlife and, after below-zero temperature and mist to start, a sunny day.
First time on any Booking Office beat, so thanks to support from your staff. Will book again, when water conditions are better for fishing.
PS: quite a bit of H balsam on banks - is this a problem?

Started at first light in zero degrees in the deep water at the top end of the beat. Caught barbel of 6-12 and 7-10 in the morning, on pellets. No action in the afternoon, but the sunny weather more than compensated.

Water clear but high no fish seen or caught did see a couple of poachers ......bless them eh!!

A tough day on this usually productive beat, with the river still racing through and very coloured. We started off on the bend at the bottom of the beat, but after one 5lb barbel to RB in 4 hours it was time to take the roving approach. RW eventually found some feeding barbel and caught 3 up to 7.5lb on pellet. 5oz was necessary to hold bottom in most swims.

The river Wye has been running high,coloured, full of rubbish (leaves etc) and fast flowing all week. Almost unfishable on every day except for fishing in the slacks.
This report covers all week.
- Sat 14th. Fishing the Warren. (op Sheephouse) F had 1 Barbel 10lb 12oz. on Spam. T blanked.
- Sunday 15th. The Warren. Both blanked. (tried maggots, casters, spam-, pellets (all sorts) and boilies (all sorts) bread sweetcorn and just about everything else.
- Monday 16th. Lower Llangoed. Fred lots of Dace/small Chub and o/s Brown Trout. feeder fishing maggots.
Terry. Plenty of Grayling and o/s Brown Trout trotting maggots. Best day of the week as it turned out.
- Tuesday. 17th. The Warren (op Sheephouse). F had Dace on maggots and 1 Pike 22lb on float/ledgered Dead Dace. T had 1 Barbel 7lb 14oz. on pellets.
- Wednesday 18th, Ty Newydd. Wash off unfishable.
- Thursday 19th, The Warren (op Sheephouse). F had 1 Chub on pellets, 3lb 2oz and 1 Pike 18lb 14oz on float/ledgered dead Dace. T had 1 Chub 3lb 7oz on pellet.
Thanks to all at WUF for all your help and advice as always.
Personal comments from T and myself to those who report that they have had really hard days fishing when they have only caught 7 or 8 Barbel and a dozen Chub or so. Get real, that is a great days fishing NOT a hard one. You should remember it as a great days fishing when you next have a blank session which WILL happen at some time, when the river is in flood and very dirty like it has been for us all week. This is HARD fishing, but very enjoyable none the less, and we travel 250 miles just to get to fish the Wye.