Feedback & Reports

Arrived around 2pm and fished through until 8pm. Warm, overcast with occasional sunny spells. Low water levels made it tricky... mid afternoon in August is not prime Trout time. I've fished here earlier in the year, but many of the spots that fished well then were pretty dead this time around. They looked fishy, but nothing. Eventually things picked up at around 6pm. Managed 4 small (but beautiful) WBT on nymph off a Klinkhammer. Spotted a few fish and cast to them, but they just didn't seem interested.

4 Trout

Only fished the top and the bottom ends of the beat, for around an hour. Water was brown and fining from flood. The top part of the beat is very challenging, as it is severely overhung with trees. Caught two on the duo (nymph and dry fly), lost a couple more, and missed a few takes. One was 30cm, a really nice fish. The bottom end is slightly more open and has some lovely pools - shame I didn't spend a bit a bit more time here. The farmer hasn't been super kind to fishermen with the fences along this beat.

2 Trout

Fished only the short section of the beat from the downstream limit to the railway bridge. A lovely stretch of river with plety of interesting asects. No fish seen but I'm sure there will be fish in here!

Good stain on the water made for a productive day

No fish caught but had two rises. Had a major problem with the cows in the field next to river above the weir. They were very persistent and made it impossible to fish from that side of the river.

One twelve inch fish on a dry Tups. Few fish seen to be surface feeding.

1 Trout

Very quiet on the top of the water this evening which is a bit unusual for here , even the 'banker' runs didn't bring a riser despite best efforts. Maybe it was the rather cool and very gusty wind coming down the valley? Who knows, there's always next time! Could do with a good flush through though (as they all can I'm very sure) and looking at the gauges this evening they have it. Hurrah !

I've just taken out a Wild Streams season pass, so this was my first outing. I haven't fished for trout on a small river for 20+ years so I was bit rusty to say the least. What an enjoyable day though. I had a great morning exploring this beat.
The water was low but there were fish in all the likely looking spots. I only managed to land & return one small 8" brown trout. I touched a few and lost a couple in the series of pools between the railway bridge and the bottom of the beat. Most of them were going for a gold bead hare's ear nymph.
I am fairly clueless as to what flies I should be fishing. The comments on successful flies on these catch reports are really useful for tips. Fishing the whole beat and 20+ pools with only a few casts/flicks in each was a new and really enjoyable experience.
The WUF set-up and excellent website and maps have been a great discovery. Hopefully I can soon hone my skills. Being keen to explore I fished the adjacent Honddu Pandy beat in the afternoon and also the nearby Upper Grywne Fawr beat but with no luck at either.

1 Trout

Fished from 14.00 to 19.00 all fish on the dry fly small black gnat

6 Trout