Feedback & Reports

Managed to break my current barbel drought at last. Spent the bulk of the day watching my dad hauling chub without getting a single nibble myself. Wet and windy, so I wasn't that keen to go roving, but I'm glad I did, because at about 5pm I found the barbel tightly shoaled up and proceeded to take 7 in 90 mins, averaging 6lb, 7lb the biggest. There seem to be fish all over the stretch, mainly chub, but in low water conditions the barbel obviously hold up in one or two areas. Find these and the sport is very, very good. Not as big as the barbel in some other WUF stretches, but quite willing to eat baits, and many were completely unmarked with no evidence of having been hooked previously. Great day.

Cloudy windy day with some strong gust blowing down river. No fish moving. Caught 2 Trout (9" & 5") and 1 Graylin (8")Lost a few more to PTN in the deeper runs. Throughly enjoyed myself.

No fish caught. One or two tugs at nymphs. Water low and weather windy and raining on and off. Only one rise seen, otherwise no activity at all. Dissappointing. Beer at pub excellent!

Never seen the river so low here, fishing was very hard with the fish only being caught in the usual holes around the Vanstone pool. We managed 8 Barbel and 10 chub and 4 eels on a variety of baits.

This is a lovely stretch of river - but despite reports of marvellous trout and graying catches I have managed 1 10" brown trout in three visits. Latest visit I saw plenty of kingfishers and fly catchers but only 3 rises and no takes. I was using Adams Irresistible with a small pink beaded nymph NZ style at 15". If anyone is prepared to let me into the secret of success on this stretch then my email is jeremy_mantle@hotmail.com. Frustrated but not giving up!

Greeted with very low water conditions, and relatively bright skies. Fishing proved very difficult with only 3 barbel and 10 chub being caught.
Hopefully fishing will improve when there is a decent amount of water in the river. Nice to see that there are a few more swims marked, but would be better if flat fishing platforms could be introduced.

3 small browns but beat in terrible condition. Would not recommend.

Fished for a couple of hours early afternoon. Mainly cloudy with some drizzle. Water level really too low at 6" to be ideal - pools more like a series of interconnected ponds, containing very spooky trout! Some rises. Had six trout, the best 11", all to a hare's ear emerger and mainly in the faster water at the heads of each pool. We desperatly need rain to clean these rivers out and get the levels up. The Escley Brook is worse than the Honddu and is currently pretty turbid and, with minimal flow, the slabs and rocks are now well covered with silt and algae. Ugh! Anyone know an effective rain dance?

Managed to get a full day at it, lovely place but a bit of traffic noise with the busy road quite close. Hardly saw a fish all day and didn't catch one either. Mainly a river fisher so probably got it all wrong on the day, hey ho still enjoyed it though, will have to try harder I guess.

Mainly cloudy; River Irfon very low (Wye 5"); very little fly all day. Didn't see a grayling rise all day; most rises appeared to be very small trout. Caught thirteen trout - most were 9-10 inches, but also a couple of 12 and a couple of 13 inch fish. Surprisingly for Cefnllysgwynne, I only caught two grayling - 12 and 14 inches. All fish bar one caught on a hare's ear emerger. The other on a small PW nymph fished Kiwi style.