Feedback & Reports

Arrived at hut and approached the river via the first slope on Wood Stream. A salmon showed at 7.00am about 30-40 yards below the bridge on the right bank. At summer level the flow below the bridge is not perfect for the fly rod so set up spinning rod to tackle the salmon (and others?).

On previous trips have spotted salmon holding in the deep water along this right bank. Concentrated on the first 150 yards below the bridge, wading whenever possible. Also fished quickly at various points along the rest of the beat. From the bridge down saw a busy mink, several kingfishers and a cormorant. Spent last 1/2 hour of my 3 hours fishing for trout on the fast water at Wood Stream
- 3 small trout caught on nymphs and returned. Seems to be a resident family of 7 gossander near Rock Pool.

Stayed Panty Goitre Farm Cottages ( highly recommended ) on family holiday - took in Monmouth Show and rainy day at Cardiff Bay.

WUF Note: Anyone spotting cormorant, goosander or merganser are requested to record it on the Angling Trust website - http://www.cormorantwatch.org/

2 rods fished for 7 barbel and 16 chub caught on a variety of meat and pellet baits

Slow going this morning with only three bites which produced a good Chub of 4lb 6ozs and two Barbel, the best going 8lb 13ozs. Reading other reports suggests that evening may be more productive.

Nil return. Lovely day for it though!

Weather was wet for most of the day. Fished luncheon meat at the far end of the beat for most of the afternoon without success. Ended up with 3 chub to 4 1/2lb on pellet after changing tact and moving. Lovely beat with good access to the water and plenty of swims to explore!

Initially had no success until about 5 pm when I started to catch. Ended up with 6 smallish grayling, 5 trout and 2 dace plus a couple of smolt.

RS and I decided to try Ty Newydd again after my day there on Monday, but what a difference a few days makes! We fished from midday until we were rained off at about 7pm. The water seemed colder than on Monday but I hadn't taken any temperatures. Pretty windy for a fair bit of the time with a couple of afternoon showers between which very few flies were coming off and, unsurprisingly, hardly a rise was seen. Unlike on Monday, the fish just weren't looking up and we only managed to catch 14 fish between us: 6 trout to 12", and 8 grayling to 12" with most of 8-10". Fish taken on HE emerger, foam beetle, foam ant and on a brown Super Pupa. Nothing on NZ style nymph. Tough!

Having read DC and RS feedback for the same day its comforting for us (and perhaps them!) to know that we were not the only ones that struggled. Given we were on the next beat down hardly surprising that we had the same cold squally weather and that the fish were not very interested. Total was 5 wbt best 14" and only the 1 10" grayling to our two rods - all the trout came between 5 and 6 pm when there was a small hatch of olives and the fish woke up. The trout were all on the skinny side - has feeding been poor this summer? In pleading mitigation this was my first outing since coronary and I was fishing gently!

2 chub caught one off 2 and a half pounds and one of 3 and a half pounds, bailiff Ian very helpful, water was well down, very picturesque.

No fish caught. Rained all day.