Feedback & Reports

Theres been a bit of rain so river has had a bit of a flush through. Dropping back down again though. The day started as we parked up …. Two other anglers were peering off Llanstephan bridge so went and said hello, they were the rods on Gromain for the day. Was good to chat.
On walking down to the river we were greeted by 4 cormorants on the best pool followed by 3 goosanders – not a good start. There was a tricky downstream breeze, with little insect life and no visibly rising fish to be seen. Not a good omen. And fishing the usual glides brought no response. However it was a very different story in the faster water at the top of the beat. There was a significant head of 2 year old grayling in the 8 to 10 inch category willing to rise to a fly… and even a couple of this years 2 inchers joined in. Bigger fish and trout were largely absent although a couple did come to hand.
We finished with 39 fish to our parachute dries – not bad on a day that didn’t look promising initially. Best grayling 17”, best trout 18”.
Knotweed logged with Louis and the team for attention - and theres a large owl who always escorts us off the beat when we leaving in the evening, if it’s a tawny it’s the biggest I have ever seen!

4 Trout, 35 Grayling

Water very low, and weather very warm. Two very's in the the same sentence. One fish hooked and lost on a size 6 Green Highlander.

More water please, as time is running out.

Water low and sun shining. Beautiful beat and plenty of fishing activity in the evening but proved hard to catch.
Hooked 3 fish with only 1 grayling being netted, other 2 managed to throw the hook close to net (1 decent brownie and another small grayling).

1 Grayling

1 Grayling

Superb days fishing, lots of takers on deep nymphing techniques and a couple on the surface. Not big fish but all very welcome on a bright day.
10 trout and 17 Grayling between 2 of us.

10 Trout, 17 Grayling

Rivers have been so low – but a bit of water on the gauge so we thought it worth a chuck. Not sure where the water was coming from …. None of the gauges up the catchment , including the Elan, looked as if they had seen water. But there it was – cold too, so do suspect dam release.
Wherever it came from the fish didn’t like it! Little by way of insect life either, although Mr kingfisher was showing us how to do it. We finished with one salmon parr …. Never mind, the bad days put the good ones in context.

1 Other

A beautiful location! I'm a beginner and the fishing here wasn't really suited for what i was trying to catch. I tried to fish the pool which I later read on the website isn't suited for the fly. That being said the gutters just above had a number of trout rising in the early morning when i first got there (7am). Afterwards it all went silent until a huge brown trout jumped out of the pool around 12pm. I honestly thought it must have been a salmon at first but I remember seeing red spots on an olive green body. All in all, lovely spot, probably more suited to salmon fishing or using the boat. Not fished properly by myself.

Beautiful stretch of water: lots of fly life. Level low and rises minimal (despite fly life). Caught trout on a ptn. Connected with one more. Young cattle were in the river but we were able to Usher them away. Guided by Justin Connolly who is a thoroughly nice guy as well as being an excellent guide.

1 Trout

8 Trout, 4 Grayling

Blustery day with difficult conditions but nice to be out and about , very low water with bouncing through pools that looked fishy for the odd salmon that maybe holding in the deeper pools .
Seems like Mr Otter found one though .. One trout had a lot of lice on .

Lost my trout net on the beat somewhere .. I know three anglers are fishing that beat today , maybe it will be found , if so happy to pay the postage for the return of it .. Thanks

3 Trout, 1 Grayling