Feedback & Reports

Quiet day with few rises & no takers on wets/nymphs until a carpet of tiny ants started arriving c. 4pm, prompting a feeding frenzy across the river. Matching the hatch proved difficult as nothing was airborne and all my smallest flies were ignored (griffiths gnat etc.) Eventually tempted a couple of grayling on a tiny klinkhammer from the Green Bank tail, including a hard-fighting 16" fish which needed almost 10 minutes to recover itself.
Even the resident ducks joined in the ant-fest, whizzing round the pool in flotilla formation slurping up as many as they could. The carpet was still arriving when I left c. 7pm, so there must have been trillions of ants and a lot of full-to bursting fish- I saw from another report same thing at Dolgau so they must have hatched somewhere way upstream.

2 Grayling, 1 Other

River still very low. No sign of barbel. Chub to 4lb.

3 Chub

River level very low - large parts of beat unfishable. All fish taken from fast deep pools/runs of which there weren't many!
Best fish was 15" the other five were between 6 & 9". All caught on weighted nymph.

6 Trout

River low and very clear. No takes early morning, due to the hot conditions stopped fishing at 10am and started again after 7pm hooked a Salmon below rock pool on a floating line size 8 double Salmon fly, fish moved forty yards upstream when the hook pulled.

Lovely place most of the fish taken on the nymph but the odd fish rising all day! Cracking beat!

15 Grayling

A nice beat witb plenty of water to go at, swims fairly easily accessible. The walk around the woods makes you blow a bit!!!!. A very nice day with a few fish best barbel 7lb 12oz best chub 4lb plus ... surprisingly not many canoes, those there was were very polite and considerate...

6 Barbel, 16 Chub

River was very low & clear, all fish caught in evening apart from 1 chub, biggest barbel was about 8lb, all fish caught from the top end of beat in the deeper water. Quite a few canoe's around lunch time some of whom spent more time in the water than in the canoe which put paid to the fishing for a couple of hours it was a very hot day so we left the fishing for a pint in the Mill Race pub. After some refreshments in the pub we returned & walked the whole beat but decided to stick with the deeper water at the top where the barbel eventually started to show

7 Barbel, 3 Chub

River low, very clear and warm. Four beautiful trout, 6-8 inches, plus a couple of tiny grayling and a salmon parr. All caught on a PTN fished on a tenkara rod.

4 Trout, 2 Grayling

This was the first time to fish Goodrich and found it an excellent beat somewhat spoiled by the number of canoes. I had the services of Mick who was first class.
Plenty of fish showing but the day was very hot and sunny making conditions difficult.
However I hope to return towards the end of the season.
Tony Evans, Knutsford

Fished in the first field near the parking, opposite the manor house on the hill. Water low and day very hot, but expectant as I intended to fish until 9 pm. Caught only 2 very small barbel under 1 lb each during mid afternoon on luncheon meat. Also tried pellet throughout the day and evening, but could not get a genuine take from anything larger. At least not a blank but very disappointing and will give Sugwas a miss next time.

2 Barbel