Feedback & Reports

I was teaching my son to fish - none caught but a few fish moving and wonderful setting with a light wind. One other fisherman, who encouraged him to keep going and build his experience. So a really worthwhile day as part of a couple of days' camping. My first time back at the reservoir since my own fishing there in the late 1970s, hope to come back sooner!

9lb 8oz Barbel, 2 Chub on crust/breadflake, freelined and trotted. 2 Firsts for me, more than happy, could have caught more if I'd put mor effort into catching numbers. Will be back, loads of river not yet fished. Thanks to Terry for his input.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

River still high (about 1 ft above summer levels), cold and slightly coloured. Only surface activity coming from presumed salmon parr on far bank under the trees. Plenty of caddis activity above the water, and a sporadic hatch of small olives during the early afternoon. All fish were caught on a heavy tungsten beaded point fly: 5 trout from just below the boards at Llanstephan, 3 trout from infront of the hut, and the sole grayling from the deep water near Cottage. All the trout and grayling were in the 6-8" size range.

8 Trout, 1 Grayling

The river was still high 1'7",so again tricky wading.
Grayling were caught at the bottom of the beat, but another dry day. Celebrated my birthday the night before so felt a bit grey and really only added moral support to the others.
The girls in the foundation office were great,putting up with all my alterations to our fishing.thanks again.

6 Grayling

A good well maintained beat had 2 trout up to 10" on weighted ptn and 2 grayling on Adams 1 over 12" good enjoyable day

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

This was my first visit to the Wye, the barbel having all but disappeared from my local Wiltshire river. It took some getting used to the size of the river, which was coming down at a fair pace, even at normal summer level. I had nothing in the first swim I tried, though there were a few very sharp pulls from what I thought were probably small chub. A move to another swim as the light began to fade brought first an eel, then at last a decent barbel bite and a fish just over the five pound mark on halibut pellet and feeder. Despite relative lack of success I greatly enjoyed my visit, learned a lot and will surely return.

1 Barbel, 1 Other

Only fished for just over an hour due to urgent work requirements. From what I saw of the beat it had plenty of good looking swims etc. and would love to return. The fishing that I did do was tough due to the fast flow, meaning that 4oz feeders barely held.

River condition were good with decent levels good flow and a bit of colour. Overhead conditions were bright and hot in the morning and cloudy staying warm with heavy showers in the afternoon. Commenced around 8AM and had first fish (9 lb 1 oz) around 9AM, the second fish at around 10.30AM (9 lb 5 oz). Then quiet until 2.30PM when had 4 fish in 4 casts over a period of no more than 1.5 hours, none of these fish were weighed but would put smallest around 4.5lb and best somewhere in the high 7's. Then another quiet period until around 5PM when had another 2 fish first fish estimated in high 5's second fish best of the day at (9 lb 12 oz). One surprise was that despite getting 'knocks'/'taps' every cast I had no chub at all.... Comment on the fish would be that all were in great condition except for the 9lb 1 oz fish which despite giving a great fight lacked condition and didn't carry the expected weight its breadth and length would normally warrant... Packed up a around 6.45pm.

8 Barbel

Poor days fishing with no sign of movement anywhere in the reservoir.

2 Trout

1 x coloured hen salmon 32 inches on size 6 Usk Grub fished on a sink tip. One other fish lost. 1 foot 7 inches on the gauge, which is good fly water for our beat, but still with that very strong peaty tinge to the water.

1 Salmon