Feedback & Reports

Thursday we arrived same again long walk when got there there were four fishermen on other side we manage to get in between them. We got 3 barbel and 6 chub all on meat and cheese. As I said earlier there are a lot of swims that need to be cut.

3 Barbel

Persevered with dry patterns through the morning, but very little fly life and nothing seen to rise. Nymphs and spider patterns fished upstream proved more successful; with a very nice grayling of around 2lbs taken from the deeper water through the middle of the beat. The water was pushing through at quite a pace, so weighted patterns were needed to get down in the current :- a bead-headed PTN on the point and a Greenwells spider on a dropper attracted most attention.
Some serious bank clearance towards the top of the beat has made access much easier, so many thanks!!

2 Trout, 5 Grayling

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

14 Barbel, 8 Chub

Water slightly high and stained when I arrived but clearing during the day. 4 grayling to 15" and three trout including one at 17" & one at 18", the latter a cock fish with quite a pronounced kype. All on wet Coch-y-bonddu or parachute Adams. Amazing to see such good trout but worth also mentioning the following day on the lower Cammarch Hotel beat (not through WUF) when a dozen to the same methods included one 20" Brown, the biggest I have seen on the Irfon.

3 Trout, 4 Grayling

Just to confirm that nothing was caught on our visit by any of us.

Fished duo method in bright conditions, hooked 6, landed 3, probably rusty! Fish from head of shaded pool at bottom of beat and in deeper runs in open areas

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

A breezy evening fly fishing on the lower beat with plenty of cloud and the odd shower. River falling and clear with a brown stain. Fishing an Usk Grub had one small grilse on and off after two quick leaps at the Fishing Green and a few trout going for the salmon fly after the recent rain.
An exciting evening on a great piece of fly water.

1 Trout

25 x trout 6-10 inches on Rusty Klinkhammer. The water is pretty low and clear at the moment but this one seems to be fishing nicely. Note that the Forestry Commission's contractor has just about finished the tree thinning in these woods, which opens up some opportunities in the centre of the beat. Don't expect all the log jams to be gone - this is still a wild stream - but access is easier than it was a couple of months ago.

25 Trout

My friend and Barbel/coarse fisherman MW from London decided he would like to try wild stream trouting after hearing me go on about it. First time fly fishing for him! I said the river could be dour at this time of year, and indeed the recent rain had passed through leaving a low slow river still with slime etc. He got the hang of it quite quickly, but could only tempt 1 7" brownie on dry. Eventually I found an answer - a tiny tung head GRHE shuffled along the bottom of the deepest pools produced 2 more trout to 12" and 4 Grayling to 13". He went home happy and me relieved - he is talking of getting a small fly rod now....

3 Trout, 4 Grayling