Feedback & Reports

Very pleasant day - sunny, clear, dry, downstream breeze. River running clear. A brief flurry of (late) March browns at around 12.10pm but did not interest the trout. Not much of a hatch for rest of day. Maybe the conditions were too dry and 'brassy'. Tried dry fly, dry and suspended nymph and a pair of nymphs, all to no avail!

No fish caught. No fish rising and very little fly life seen.

Another late report from Wyebank. I caught 3 salmon on Allys shrimps size 8 barbless doubles, 2 around 9lbs consecutive casts, which could have been twins, after 9.15pm with other  fish rising as the first took and the last about 12lbs as light was fading and got it off about 10.25. 9's from above the rock 10-12yds upstream from Wyebank crib. I put that rock there in 1994 and have now caught half a dozen fish from it over the last few years. I saw at least a dozen fish and an awesome hatch of small olives like I haven't seen for years coming down like flotillas of minute yachts. Very very exciting all round - in fact amazing evening.

3 Salmon

Nice fish about 12 inches taken at the junction pool,on a pheasant tail nymph

1 Trout

Best fish one and three quarter pounds - rest much smaller. Most on dry Parachute Adams, one on nymph. A lot of sun but still quite cold. Only the odd fish rising so had to work quite hard for them including some challenging wading! Beautiful beat with a pair of sandpipers chasing each other around and a swan nest on an island.

7 Trout

4 fish all rainbow caught. 3 on spinner one on bottom. One very small rainbow also taken on spinner but returned as only just hooked on lip. Good fishing.

4 Trout

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.