Feedback & Reports

Dr Reynold Cowles from Earlysville, Virginia caught his first Wye salmon, 16lbs in the Cafn Pool, 20 mins into his first Spey casting lesson with guide Chris Price.

1 Salmon

Fish are small this time of year

2 Trout

Lower Llangoed 11 lbs hen on Gold Willie Gunn for Charles Tweedie

1 Salmon

Nyth and Tyrcelyn - Dr Cowles follows up with a superb 31lb (110cm) cock fish from the Turn Pool. Matt Tricks caught a further lovely 24lb cock fish (100cm) from the Boat Pool, and a 10lb hen fish from the Stone Catch pool. 2 more lost, (one another very big fish).

3 Salmon

8Lb cock fish, slightly coloured, from Beat 4 at 4:10pm on yellow & black tube. River very clear, 1'6" and dropping, sunny day.

1 Salmon

7lber on size 10 Willie Gunn

1 Salmon

Ray Oakley landed a 9lb hen fish on a home tied fly at Eardisley on 4 oct

1 Salmon

Arrived mid morning the river still up after the weekend rain tried a couple of swims on the way down to the end of the beat too pacey for a float but did catch the biggest dace I have caught in years caught barbel to 8lb and chub to just over 4lb on ledgered pellet and meat in between the action enjoyed watching an angler Spey casting for salmon in the intermittent sunlight

7 Barbel, 4 Chub, 1 Other

After a difficult day on the river a week or so ago (very low water) I had been interested to see that the levels had risen following rain in the following week. A very hastily arranged day off from work saw me heading up the A40 at just after 6 in the morning, arriving on the beat at just after 8am. The river looked in very good condition for barbel - good flow and colour - so I'd decided to start in the wood and make my way to the meadow if needs be. First cast produced a tap - a chub maybe? - that didn't develop. Second and third casts produced nothing. Fourth cast saw me latch in to and land an 8lb barbel, and the next six or seven casts were just as productive. I ended up with 8 barbel between 5 and 8 pounds and a solitary chub. By about 1.30pm, having endured two or three uneventful casts, I had to conclude that the fishing had switched off - as it does so often in the middle part of the day. I decided at this stage to head home, I'm sure that the afternoon and evening would have produced as well but I'm not that greedy! Wonderful day's fishing on one of my favourite beats, when the conditions are in your favour it really does make all the difference!!
Whilst I did have the chub and one barbel on meat, the most successful bait on the day was hair rigged 8mm pellet, either a pair or a triple, wrapped in a paste made out of the groundbait. To be honest I was surprised not to see more chub... and for once, no eels! (Though I seem to be in something of a minority in that I actually like them!)
Thanks to all at WUF and Don the fishery owner. Hoping that there may be one more visit before it gets much colder.

8 Barbel, 1 Chub

Overcast, cool and windy. Grayling to 15" trout to 11", all but one on wt nymph, preference for red. Caught in slow and fast water.

5 Trout, 9 Grayling