Feedback & Reports

The river at the beginning of the session from the lake to the church was very coloured we later found out from an evironment agency officer that the river Wye was affected by it some 5 miles down stream and he was looking for the source of the pollution he said that it had been happenning every day since Tuesday but from midday the river had sorted it self out, what ever it was did not affect the fish.
Anyway the fishing (because of the above we could not fish near the church). We went further up stream the colour improved, up to midday we only had 1 fish between us on a trotted red maggot. Later in the afternoon we made our way down to the church where the river was in fine fettle, the colour had gone and the river was as it should be.
Between us we had 38 Grayling to about 2lb mainly on trotted red maggot. This was in a 2 1'2hr period. We will definitely be back.

Excellent Pike fishing on a mild day. Spent 3 hours dropping into likely looking spots along the entire length of the beat. Lots of swims with ready made steps in place. Didn't have a touch, so decided to fish 3 of the more Pikey looking spots with deadbaits. Caught 3 Pike, one at 16.5lb, one at 14.5lb and a jack. Thoroughly enjoyed the day!

Lots of grayling caught on maggots, no chub or dace. Signs on gates would be a help.

Mild day, river settled, had few pike, a chub and a barbel. Thanks to Colin.

First time on the Irfon and the beat lived up to my expectations being a classic Border river in a lovely setting. Arrived to find the water somewhat coloured which was surprising as there had been no rain. It transpired that the EA were just as bemused and were investigating as it wasn't an isolated incident. The river clarity soon improved but the fishing didn't. It was a hard slog for most of the day with 1 grayling at about 1 1/2lbs and a Graylet caught. At 3.30ish another rod trotting got into a shoal just upstream of the Church and caught plenty of fine fish. Using a Nymph in the shallow water there I had 4 or 5 fish around 12 inches. Great fun, only wish I'd started there earlier! I'd love to fish here in the Autumn and suspect the quality of fishing would be hard to surpass.

Almost spring like weather today, ideal for our first visit to this beat.
After negotiating the deep water filled ruts on the track and several stiles we reached a cracking stretch of river.
Started towards the top of the stretch opposite the Weir Garden and worked down to the end of the fast water. Trotted flake and fed mashed bread. Chub were obliging, and we both caught some nice fish to just over four pounds. Most swims seemed to hold a fish or two with the deep marginal runs the most productive and easiest to fish in quite a brisk downstream wind.
Looks a good bet for a barbel or two and a return trip in search of Barbus will be on the agenda very soon.

Pleasant day, river in good shape. 52 grayling between 3 rods - all on trotted maggot. Several around 2lb, best fish 2lb 8oz. Everybody happy!

7 grayling 10 - 16" on upstream nymph. All but one fish came to a tungsten beaded hares ear. Levels were low and water clear. Most fish came from fast riffles rather than the deeper pools.

2 x grayling 16 and 18 inches, Pink Shrimp. Another mild day by recent standards. The Lugg was a nice colour, but still very high and fast. Apart from a few parr, I had a real struggle through most of the day trying to work out where the grayling had wandered off to. However, I was lucky enough to bump into a brace of good ones before dark.

Half a dozen tiny Grayling all caught in one spot between the A40 bridge and the weir. It's a tricky beat to nymph with snags aplenty above and below water. The weir offers some respite to this frustration but I didn't locate a thing there, interesting that it has previously been reported as teeming with Chub. I suppose they must have returned to the main river - I'd love to know what tempted them up there in November. Gave it my best above the weir but blanked there too - something faintly depressing about wading in silt! Perhaps the Garren might be a more rewarding small stream experience on a dry fly in the spring but I left feeling a little disappointed, largely due to my own failings (as usual) but also perhaps that for a stretch of stream with such obvious drawbacks it compares unfavourably with other roving voucher beats priced at 4 tokens.