Feedback & Reports

Lovely day (11.5C or so) and river at last under a foot (on Brecon scale) and running clear, if a little cold. My partner and I arrived to start fishing at around 11.15am and soon saw the odd rise (to LDOs) on the flats near the bridge. These continued until around 3pm when we chose to stop fishing. Nothing seemingly rising further up (where my partner chose to fish) but enough happening at the flats for me to miss one rise altogether, prick another, have a trout on for 20 sec or so until it slipped barbless hook and land one of 3/4lb. Pleased to see dry fly action. Odd March Brown about also.

Perfect water level, good fly water beats 2 and 5. No springers seen. One kelt from the boils where the waters meet below the island.

1 Other

11 Barbel, 2 Chub

18lb cock fish taken by syndicate member on a rapala, beat 4. River in superb condition. Nothing seen. Bright sunshine. Fabulous spring fishing.

1 Salmon

River in good condition with a steady hatch of LDO's and a few march browns between noon and mid afternoon which got a few fish rising.Spent the day getting used to a new long leader nymph set up and caught two lean 13" fish on tungsten headed dark PTN size 14.

2 Trout

Our first time on this beat so not a bad result. All fish caught in the afternoon after trying several swims lower down. There were several salmon jumping through the day. After a foggy start it became warm and sunny in the afternoon. Lovely beat but a bit featureless. We look forward to trying it in the summer.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

My first time on a Wild Stream so I didn't have high expectations. Nothing caught but a lovely late afternoons fishing for 3 hours. No fish seen but I did learn lots of lessons and river skills.

River fast and coloured, about 2/3 of the stones from Maddox to Corner Tree out of the water (just), this was my first time on the beat so I am assuming these form the walkway mentioned in the notes.
Fished a Flying C all day but no luck and nothing seen.
Banks very slippery, take a wading staff even for fishing from the bank.

First visit to this beat, and the upper wye. Such a fantastic setting, really is a beautiful way to spend a day. Fished the top end of the beat in the morning trotting with the centre pin. Had a 2 Grayling, both around 1lb. These were my first ever. Such hard fighting fish for their size, I can't wait to target them next season. I also had 2 small trout under 1lb. By 11am the sun came out and the trotting died off with no more fish caught by 1pm. At this point I decided to get the feeder gear out and relax in the sunshine. I headed down to the bottom of the beat in search of chub, or maybe a bonus barbel. After a look through the lower beat I realised their wouldn't be much hope of barbel, it's deep and slow so chub would be the target. I had one which weighed in at 5.8, so happy with that. I would like to fish this best again, but would want to spend a full day at the top of the beat. It really is a stunning stretch of water. I look forward to exploring more upper Wye stretches in the new season.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling, 1 Chub

Fished with worm and had a thoroughly enjoyable day.

12 Trout