Feedback & Reports

The river was higher than when I fished it for the first time last year but fairly clear and not unfishable.
I worked down stream with a small green gold head without success. Late afternoon I came back upstream, took a small trout on black nymph. Met the owner of the beat who kindly suggested I try another pool upstream and advised on which of my dries I should try.
Took two small trout in quick succession before rain stopped play.
Conclusion: I have a lot to learn so must be content with only catching the small naïve fish before I can graduate to finding and deceiving the bigger ones!
Even without catching, this beat is just a wonderful place to spend a day and enjoy the solitude.

3 Trout

I fished dry fly mostly on the flats and struggled to catch one trout. The other two anglers tried dry and nymph had some takes but did not land any fish. Everyone enjoyed the scenery.

1 Trout

Two trout about ten inches and one small grayling all caught on dry fly, good day on a nice beat

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

A beautiful stretch of the Upper Wye. Cold easterly wind and unseasonal conditions did not help flylife hatches, but a few fish were still rising now and again for a sporadic hatch of small upwinged mayfly from 11 - 16:00. Four nice trout caught between two rods the best of which was 1lb 8oz with one or two larger fish pricked and others seen. We will return later in the summer in the hope of warmer conditions. Still a lovely day on the water.

4 Trout

The day was cold. All catch and release. 4 trouts about 10" very nice. Allyson from the Foundation advised me not to go to another beat due to a three day festival and she showed me other beats to select. Thank you Allyson.
All trout were caught with dry fly elk hair. The fishing day finished when I fell in to the river. Very nice day indeed.

4 Trout

Great beat. some lovely wbt all in the pound to a pound and half range and all returned safely. No rise at all. All fish came to weighted nymphs. I will fish this beat again

5 Trout, 2 Grayling

A lovely beat this, especially on a fine sunny day. The water clarity was like that of a chalk stream with fish clearly visible moving around the largest pool, little or no hatch of fly. No trout caught but did catch a massive grayling on a hares ear. The fish was just about as long as my forearm!

1 Grayling

Nil return.

This should have been a wash-off, with Craig Llyn falls roaring so loud you could hear them from the A470, and the river two feet over its banks. But I was tired of driving, and the eddies & creases in the margins looked fishable, so I cracked on. Blank all morning. Then the sun came out round 12 noon, and I found a pod of grayling, sheltering from the torrent, in the side channel behind the island. Two decent fish in two casts (one of around 40cm, maybe two and a half pounds): heavy pink shrimp Czech nymph. A couple more takes in the next half hour, but no fish on. Then they were gone, and that was it for the day. And that was more than enough.

2 Grayling

River low and clear, just one grayling about 40cm, and one trout. No other offers, struggled on quite a mild day on what felt like a good fishing day. A few olives trickled off between 11-2. Really quite tough and a tad disappointing.
Watched a number of salmon chasing each other around and spawning which was nice to see.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling