Feedback & Reports

A really disjointed fishing session to be honest!!! Saw my local streams the Clywedog and Ithon were booked up so a road trip it was !!!
I do take that quick journey from Rhayader for granted, as I did an hour initially to get to the Upper Cilieni .... ohhhhh dear, what a sorry state this stream is in !!!! No wonder it hasn't been fished this season !! The booking office should take heed of why a certain beat isn't getting booked !!! Anglers know things !!! I wouldn't have gone here if this dam crayfish plague hadn't put all our good beats out of action .... sods law hey, couldn't be the over grown, jungle ones that NRW close hey .... the good ones ....gggrrrrrrrrrr never mind, hopefully Edw , Arrow etc will be back in play soon .....
Interestingly the Ithon water above the very top of the Llanddewi beat looks cracking WUF ...perhaps a phone call, I'm sure Steve the farmer on the Llanddewi stretch knows him ...... its going to be one of two answers isn't it !!!! Make a great wild stream addition.... if you don't, I'll make my own enquiries .... We seem to be loosing a lot, either overgrown and not fishsble or permission has gone !!! Like Middlemoor and Mowley Wood ....fab beats they were too ......
Anyway , with the Upper Cilieni not fishsble bar perhaps the odd bit , needs some serious work done here, another one bites the dust, like the Pinsley Brook and the Escley beats !!!!!
Anyway onwards to the Bran ..... lovely babbling pools, not a huge head of fish I feel here ....With Polaroids on,i didn't see many tbh !!! Very spooky, but managed seven ... lots and lots of leg work today, did nearly five hours slow wade upstream......and driving too !!!! Fish between the six to seven inch range, all caught fair and square on the 18 Para Adams tight at the top of pools......
Lots of low hanging trees here in fairness, but my bendy spine gets used to this by the end of the season ..... Not a bad little stream ..... think I came here years ago with my Uncle .....Would I fish it again .... errrmmmmmmm maybe, tis a two day camel ride to get there in fairness ..... And, when the crayfish are all partying again, plenty to go at on the Wye catchment really .....
A nice end to a frustrating start ..... Home, dekit, and I think a stroll into town and a cold pint of Inchs Cider in The Crown ........ sorted !!!!!

2 Salmon, 7 Trout

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

no rises so nymphed with success, good day, wading very tricky but worth the effort

3 Trout, 4 Grayling

A difficult day, river low and bright sunshine. Had to wait until sunset but 2 good barbel from the woods made the day. Both needed to be well rested but went back ok. Caught from pre baited swim with a small lead and long hooklength. One on krill dumbbell and the other on 8mm robin reds.

2 Barbel

1st time using the passport scheme and wasn't disappointed. Booked the lyepole beat as it seems quite popular so guessed access would be OK and it was. Delightful stretch of River in beautiful surroundings was exactly what we wanted. With not a rising fish to be scene we tackled up to fish the Euro rig and it was a good decision and we steadily caught all day. Most of the fish were little peas in a pod Grayling around 20>25cm but I did manage 1 brute of a Bronwie that was 40cm+. Some of the styles are suspect but at least there are styles amd we even saw a resident Mink that dint seem bothered by us. Lots of evidence of what it was eating lying around (Crayfish). The river was carrying an odd Grey colour so although the visibility was good you still had to take care wading over knee deep. Also there is tons of himalayan balsam, way too much to remove on a fishing trip needs a work party of a dozen people to even scratch it.

10 Trout, 20 Grayling

A hard afternoon/evening fishing, very low levels reduced the areas to fish, trotted meat over hemp but only small chub caught and a eel ????

4 Chub, 1 Other

As low as I have seen the mighty Wye, and hard work in the hot sun. 2 Trout from downstream in the morning, 2 more and 2 Grayling from below the Edw in the afternoon, with nothing in between

4 Trout, 2 Grayling

1 Trout

A hot day with bright sun didn’t hinder the annoying son in law who caught all but 1! Next time I’m just going to take notes!

6 Trout, 14 Grayling, 3 Other

1 Trout