Feedback & Reports

I love this kind of fishing. I fished the first couple pools and was disappointed at the walk between them - there's not many pools on this beat. This was, however, until I accepted that this is the nature of the Honddu here, and so I started I started flicking the olive klink into every stopper and bit of slack water even if it was an area just the size of a dinner plate. Result was around 15 trout to a 14" bruiser, all taken on the dry. Saw a couple of rises, but the fly in the right place brought fish up from all over the place! Missed loads. I see the angler the day before saw a couple of rises and only had 1 fish - that was nearly me too.

Fished with frends from London, did not see or catch anything, very disappointed to find no indicator post or access steps down to the upper Doghole pools etc.
We wandered around in very hot weather and eventually cut a very dangerous way down ourselves, unfortunatly my frend got a soaking for his troubles, getting out was worse.
If you are running a commercial fishery charging £45 a day, make sure the pools are acessable if you want rods to return.
WUF NOTE: The beat is due for clearance work early June.

My wife and I fished the R. Honddu sharing one rod. Starting at the beat start, fishing a 7' rod #3 weight.
Fished upstream and stoped at the bridge. We landed 1 trout only aprox. 7-8". We started of with 2 spiders on the droppers and beaded GRHE. In total we caught 5 trout wich were below 7".

Nothing moving on the beat between 0930-1130hrs.

5 trouts (1x 50cm)- nymph. Catch & release.

Scorching day again. Two wbt of 6 and 10 inches on grey wulf in under trees first 50 yds of beat. Too hot to walk/fish fell asleep on bank, delightful! Fish were returned.

I think my return may have vanished into the ether, so I've done it again. Owing to transport difficulties I put vouchers into 13 beat box and walked part way down stream to fish back up to bridge. Two wbt 8 and 11 inches returned. Mosquito dry. Very hot day but v enjoyable.

Upon arrival at 9am the weather & water looked in first class condition, but it was obvious the stream had been in very heavy flood for a long time. It had risen over 5 feet! We fished from the downstream end and worked our way up. There was much fly activity on the water including waterboatmen, water skaters and clouds of black gnats. Not once did we see any rises or signs of fish activity throughout the day! We tried many dry/wet/nymph/buzzer/shrimp variations along and under tree obstructions, overhanging banks ets but to no avail. We finished fishing at 4pm with 'dry nets'. A beautiful location but disappointing days fishing!

Very warm day. Some mayfly hatching in the morning, no fish caught.

One possible take from Lady's pool, no other salmon to report. As usual, two hours with trout rod resulted in 5 oos good size grayling and 4 trout up to 14". Plenty of shad on the beat, few Lampreys gave me a bit a fright but great day out overall. Thank you!