Feedback & Reports

Made use of the faster water along several parts of the beat, which paid dividends on a bright, hot day and the river running low. Gold headed nymph and a copper john caught two decent grayling, best around a pound and a half. Took the afternoon off to relax by the fishing hut and watch the bird life. Great place to spend a day and ponder why I don't do it more often.
At around 1900 I went to the Heirag pool and watched several fish jumping in the boil. Try as I might I couldn't entice any interest from my various offerings. Stayed until the evening rise where a pale yellow evening dun imitation led to much interest from the resident salmon parr and smaller graying down below the bridge.
Probably my favorite beat on the Wye. Hopefully won't be as long until next time.

4 Grayling, 2 Other

A patchy day, boat traffic was horrendous, why do they think it’s ok to stop & have a picnic right opposite to where your fishing. I don’t think I’ll fish here during the day again.

9 Barbel, 6 Chub

Report for J H from Bridgwater.
A tough first day on this beat, not amused at kids throwing stones on the swim opposite.

7 Chub

4 Trout

2 Trout

No fish, no evidence. Very quiet. Too hot

2 Trout

Very low river, Crystal clear with bright sunshine. No activity during the day, but 1 barbel at 8pm and another at dusk. I had a third very hard take at dusk, but didn't hook it.

2 Barbel

As seems to be normal nowadays the fishing was very poor . I had one early rise to dry after that nothing although I tried different tactics. Saw one or two small fish in deeper water but they spooked easily. The lower section is very slippy and dangerous on one's own and didn't produce any fish. I am slowly beginning to wonder if river fishing is worth the effort it seems so poor compared to a few years ago. This seems to be true of most rivers.

Crayfish lost one trout not many bites

1 Trout, 1 Other