Feedback & Reports

3 salmon this morning from the Nyth 10, 8 and 10lbs. Early afternoon a monster cock fish from Tyr Celyn, coloured but in very good condition. Measured at 44ins, so estimated from chart at 33lbs.

Managed to squeeze in a couple of hours over lunch. River
1 foot 3" falling slowly, peaty. Overcast, showers.
1 cock salmon, coloured, 13lb, size 12 Silver Stoat's Tail,
Orchard Pool.

1 nice Chub and a small Barbel. 3 anglers got permission from the farmer to fish the afternoon (after a dreadfull tackle-losing morning on WUF Kerne Bridge) though I was the only WUF booking here, and successfully landed a 9lbs 5oz and a 7lbs barbel and a few others from the fast water swims off the concrete walkway. Caught on spam and light tackle and no Wye experience before. Well done them as it was 2ft up and really pushing. I plonked in after they'd gone early and remained biteless into dark. A 5oz pellet feeder needed with constant bits of weed a real pain in the flow and elsewhere. I suspect an effort to get up off my elsewhere and walk the top deeper slower beat (though now with more pace) would have been productive! The Wye got the better of my laziness.

I fished for salmon with fly above and below the Rock without result while my companion coarse fished below the Chime. I caught nothing but M had a chub of 5lb 15oz. This is the biggest chub I have seen for a long time.

No salmon caught or seen. The river was very quiet apart from a few tiny trout rising in the Bridge Pool.

Fished from 1pm to 5pm. Huge hatch but nothing rising so fished with Pheasant Tail Nymph and caught 2 trout and 1 grayling (all around 10ins) in shady sections of river (there was bright sunlight most of the afternoon). This is a nice little beat very close to parking, which would be handy for the less able.

Very little fly (a bit disappointing for mid September really, though it was rather cool and pretty windy at times - a few PWs, Sedges and Spinners in the early to mid-afternoon). Hardly a rise and the couple which rose to my duo dropper, I missed! Did have twenty fish though. Ten grayling, mainly of 8-10", with a couple bigger, and two 14" 1.25 pounders plus ten trout, none bigger than 10". All fish taken on tung-head nymphs, either fished duo or Czech nymphing the dubs and deeper runs. A skinny pink nymph fished duo was well appreciated by the trout and flashback PTNs and a couple of HE patterns caught the rest.
Whilst the guidelines for the beat do say that the riparian owner may have a guest fishing, I was very disappointed, as I waded up past the cottage, to be told that someone was fishing the beat upstream. No mention of this had been made when we met at 9am when she knew that I had paid for and would be fishing the beat. Maybe accounts for fewer fish being caught in the upstream section? If I had known that I would be sharing the beat with someone else I would have fished elsewhere. Whatever, I think it would be very helpful when the riparian owner is in residence and wants a guest to fish, if she informs WUF of this in advance so that paying clients can pick a day when they can either guarantee having the beat to themselves or share with a collaborating angler. Perhaps WUF can pursue this suggestion further?
P.S. Parts of the beat, including some major pools, now need pole saw treatment from the winter maintenence crew. Did some gardening en route for access as well, so some attention needed here too. Needs putting onto the "to do" list.

WUF note - The current arrangement with the riparian owner is outlined in the notes. It is not always possible for the owner to inform us of guests fishing at short notice hence the flexibility of the arrangement.

An stunningly beautiful stretch of river but fishing was slow (may have had wrong approach) as we only fished three swims, one 5lb8oz chub made the wait worthwhile.

R O-Jo had a 12.5 lb slightly coloured fish from the Vanstone at 12.30pm on a size 6 Alley variant. J L had a 5 lb coloured grilse from Maddox at 5.30pm on a size 6 Cascade and earlier lost a good silvery fish about 100m above the electric lines on a size 8 Arndilly Fancy. All on sink tips.
An excellent day. Recent clearance of bank vegetation on the lower pools is very helpful. Despite WUF's excellent pool notes, it's difficult to find the entry and exit points for the upper pools. Some marker posts and clearance of paths through the jungle would make a big difference to fishability of the upper pools.

After several salmon parr, hooked a very big grayling only for it to get away. After that my fishing went downhill and I struggled, catching just the odd troutlet and small grayling and more parr ( all on small wets). A lovely day though and great fun trying different techniques in the myriad of different swims that are on offer. Can't wait to come back to try some of the swims I never had time to fish.