Feedback & Reports

It was a tough day's fishing but a great day. Access was very tricky as the bracken and Himalayan balsam has overwhelmed the banks. Earlier in the year, it's presence was barely noticeable. There were few rises throughout the day although there were trout clearly feeding by the wall at about 6pm. I only caught on nymphs as I couldn't match the hatch!

3 Trout

Very hard fishing, even though the river looked in perfect condition. One barbel of about 4 pounds taken within the first half hour and we all thought it could be a red letter day. Sadly it wasn't to be.
I would like to comment however on your description of the venue you advertise it as two miles of double bank fishing when in reality it is one mile of single bank fishing as the opposite bank has no access to it!
You further go on to intimate that there are plenty of accessible pegs. With the exception of the gravel bank - which was occupied by some eight or nine canoeists having a picnic, we really had some difficulty finding decent swims. We all felt, that in general, your descriptin was a little disingenuous to say the least.

WUF note - The fishing is advertised as double bank and is marked this way to advise the angler that there will not be anglers on the opposite bank competing with them for swims, maintaining the exclusivity element.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Only managed about 3 hours fishing, after a long day on Nant y Moch reservoir the day before my teenage daughter was beginning to show signs of being bored! Still managed 14 feisty wee trout, best in the cloudy calmer spells, sun out, wind up, fish down. Is it me or have the bigger fish disappeared? Not had a fish of over 3/4lb for a few years now.

14 Trout

All fish taken off the top with greenwells glory. River level low and clear. All fish returned.

5 Trout

Nice Easy stretch of River. Unfortunately unfishable due to hundreds of canoes (all day) passing down stream at Wyebank.
If there were any fish they sure got scared off.

Two salmon caught 10lb and 15lb caught on fly at Bredwerdine.

2 Salmon

Three brown trout (6" - 10") taken on small dry's. Low water small hatch about 8pm.

3 Trout

River looked good, not too low, a bit of colour. Between us we fished all accessible areas of the beat. No access to the river in the bottom meadow, most pegs are at the top of the beat where the access is excellent. No chub, no barbel all day for either of us. Looking at the feedback some anglers do really well on this beat but this was our second visit without a Barbel so it will be a while before we are tempted back to this beat.

River looked good. Day ruined by endless canoes.

I fished Crewil Pool from 10pm-4am, sharing with three local club anglers. Several fish moved in quick succession shortly after 10pm and I thought it was going to be a good night, but it then went very quiet with only the occasional larger fish splashing about. Four anglers fishing the pool in constant procession was possibly too much traffic for the sewin and either they went down or carried on running as none of us caught any fish. The best I could manage was a pull from a probable small shoalie at dusk in the shallow water at the head of the pool, and then another possible pull around 11pm in the main part of the pool after the fly had swung around and was being retrieved on the hang. In desperation I tried a spinner in the railway bridge pool at dawn as it seemed a bit higher and with a slight tinge but that was dead too.
After the flood last week there are more sea trout in the river. Quite a few were caught daytime spinning last week, and the Golden Grove fishery downstream had a bumper week.