Feedback & Reports

First time fishing the Edw,lovely river and a great place to fish. Water level appeared to be low also a lot of brown algae on the bottom. 10 fish caught and quite a few more missed. 5 on a size 16 para adams and 5 on a size 18 beaded PT under an indicator, all in the faster water.
Excellent direction to the beat and parking.

10 Trout

A great session on this fabulous stretch and on a perfect fishing day: warm and away from the prevailing north-west wind although the water level is getting low. I fished the entire main section from the bridge from 10am and there were almost no fish showing and little evident fly activity. Initially no joy with a small Hares Ear nymph but when I switched to a parachute Grey Duster and cast to likely spots in slow pools and faster runs, fish came up for it. Most of the trout were about 6ins long but also caught one real fighter of 3/4lb in lovely glide towards the top bridge. I then drove up to the top 700 yrd section which looked in greater need of water but still produced a couple of fish. A very dramatic stretch with some very deep pools.
About 11 trout plus two salmon parr.

11 Trout, 2 Other

One small brown trout, returned.

1 Trout

2 Chub, 1 Pike

Another blank day, fishing seems to be very poor last few weeks having spoken to other anglers

A very enjoyable day. Not easy due to blustery wind and river dropping. Chub caught trotting bread flake or meat on the bottom. Barbel all caught on meat. Well worth the 2 hr drive from Buckingham.

4 Barbel, 13 Chub

Three droppers, weighted nymph on the bottom dropper, and spiders on the other two worked very well. Lots of fish taking, and a superb day. Lovely water height also.

16 Trout, 5 Grayling

River low and clear,bright sunshine some cloud,both used 4oz feeders and started catching chub averaging 3lb after approx 20 minutes friend started to catch barbel and chub midday. I caught mainly chub until approx 4 pm the Barbel moved into my swim resulting in 9 barbel friend caught approx 17 barbel averaging 6lb largest 7.5lb. Started fishing 11am finished 7pm fantastic session.Friend caught 17 Barbel and 35 Chub I caught 9 Barbel and approx 25 chub fantastic session.

26 Barbel, 60 Chub

My first full day on this beat... the first time was an awful day and we left early. The water was very low on the Brecon scale, but there is a lot of deep water here. The first thing I did when I got in the river was frighten a 3lb trout. I hooked several of his cousins but my strike rate has been poor for some reason this year and they all got off.
I had one exciting experience though.... I was fishing for a row of rising fished and hooked one. As it moved i could see it was rather large.... I thought 'That must be 4 or 5lb... Record trout, here I come!!', but as we fought, I could see the scales were wrong for a trout. I landed a 6lb chub! It was a very fine fish and I of course returned it. I think all the other rises were chub too.
It might not be a target species, but it was an exciting fly-fishing experience, and none of us can ask more than that.

1 Chub

River level low water relativly clear no fish showing nil return. Did see two dippers and one kingfisher.