Feedback & Reports

Arrived at the beat around 11am to light rain which eased off around 1130, about 8 degrees and gradually warmed up in the afternoon to around 12 degrees, a dull day.

All fish were caught on dry flies (size 14 march brown), there were several good hatches throughout the day to monopolise on. I tried nymphing as well but no luck. Although fishing for WBT, I wasn't disappointed by the enthusiasm and aggressive strikes from the Grayling.
This is a wonderful beat with plenty of access, variety and good parking at the camp site.

6 Grayling

Difficult conditions, very windy ????

3 Trout, 4 Grayling

poor day - very little fly life

1 Grayling

2 Trout

Lovely hatch midday of March brown, bringing fish up for a short period , until cold wind stopped it, oos grayling still showing.

3 Trout, 10 Grayling

No fish, river looked deserted. One small finger injury from a rock slip.

Beautiful day, a very orderly group of kayaks and canoes past, no problem with sharing river . Let river settle in front of us and then fished. On returning to bottom of beat found the canoes driving up and down the stretch using long poles to propel themselves. How good is this for the river bed, plus of course fishing blown out.

WUF Note: Under the terms of the access arrangements, canoeing on the Marteg to Newbridge section is only permitted when the water height is over the red line at Rhayader, at all times of year. These canoeists should not have been on the river and should certainly not have been using poles on the riverbed.

2 Grayling

1 x grayling 14 inches. Pleasantly warm and cloudy, but seemingly not a very good day for my fishing. I was experimenting with a team of leaded grayling fancy flies and had a few tentative takes, but failed to connect with all except one. No olives at all seen today.

1 Grayling