Feedback & Reports

Fished the obvious powerline peg. Managed to land 4 barbel around 5lbs but several others lost due to snags, rocks etc. I finished early as I ran out of feeders !! Be careful seems to be very snaggy.

1 x 30 inch hen fish, silver-bright, on a size 10 Bann Shrimp from the tail of the Boat Pool. Good fly-fishing water for this beat with a tinge of colour - 1 foot 5 inches on Llanstephan gauge.

B S had another of similar size while spinning higher water on Sunday. This puts Pwll y Faedda on 20 so far this season.

The river was a little coloured but lot's of fish rising. Decided to stick with dries - plenty of sedge and sporadic varying up-winged hatches through the day.
What an amazing days fishing it turned into. Biggest trout weighing in at a pound and a half with a tally of somewhere between 25-35 each (majority on sedge). I stopped counting after about 20, the same went for Andy fishing with me.
Well recommended beat with a good mix of water would like to fish it for salmon in the future.

Fished left bank only. River still a little high and coloured. However I fished the fly as I much prefer it to spinning. No luck so switched to Flying c and after a few casts just below top steps of the Vanstone a salmon took but only stayed on about one minute!
Am putting in a plea for better access to the top pools on the beat as I would dearly like to follow in Pashley's footsteps!

WUF note - Bank clearance and access work is due to carried out on this beat.

8 wbt. Lots of water in the river and very muddy. Clearing later during the day, should be o/k tomorrow.
Good info from WUF on directions and location, etc. Thanks.

Arrived at 2-30pm for the afternoon evening rise, access to the bottom of the beat through the wood was a little bit of a jungle and managed to fall over a fence wire in the grass, head first into stinging nettles, bare arms. I thought they didn't sting this month Ha Ha. Dock leaves to the rescue. What a fantastic job the clearance work has done very easy now to get a cast away. 3 fish to hand back to the bridge, the same amount coming off at the net. Stopped for tea then back to this wonderful beat. 9 more trout to hand all fish around the same size 12/13" mark possible stock. The fish fell to home ties of gold head Nymphs on point and Mayfly patterns on dropper fish were caught on both. Mayfly were flying from 5/9pm, erie really in August. Lots of sedge also, covered 5 rises and all five came to the net. Tactics and casting must be spot on thanks again to Kim Tribe and Frank Williams for without their invaluable tuition times like these would be hard to come by.

Diappointing. River low and clear very little sign of activity although did see one fairly large trout hiding under overhanging vegetation. Blanked.

Very quiet day for Courtfield. After blanking at Meadow in the morning we tried the swim by the pub-taking a tiny chub. Went back to the Meadow swim and took 3 barbel 5lbs 7lbs & 8lbs late afternoon. Very bright sunny day did not help. Canoeists a pain as usual.

Caught 1 brown 10" on a black nymph.

Suggestion: Frames to cross the barb wire fences would help anglers and keep the farmers fences intact.

Great day out.

6 fish between the two rods. All taken on the flats. Beautiful conditions with lots of water and only a little colour. Most fish below a pound but one cracking fish of just under 2 pounds from middle flats. Great day on a stunning beat.