Feedback & Reports

Washed Off from The Breaconshire (no policy so wasted the opportunity) with water the colour of diluted chocolate.
Switched to Talybont Reservoir and the high winds and driving rain made it very hard to be enthusiastic.
Couple of fish caught after much thrashing of water and gnashing of teeth. Middle of summer was not like this in the old days (as I recall). Global warming needs to hurry up I think.

2 Trout

The rain came down and the fish came on. Long leader nymphing caught most of the fish but a few were taken on a very soggy CDC dry. The average size of the Grayling was very good with the largest at 17" and the best trout at 16" fought so hard that at first I thought I was into a Grilse. By 1.30pm I was beaten by the rain and headed home with a grin on my face.

6 Trout, 20 Grayling

Showers and blustery winds made for tough going today. However, a very slow start gave way to 6 very nice WBT (the seventh being a very small fish which should hardly count) all risen up to a size 14 olive klinkhammer.
About half way up the beat I was stood very still in three feet of water dealing with a wind knot, when three Otters playfully swam right up to me. When they realised what they were just about to bump into, off they sped, scattering in three directions. They didn't go far and it seemed to my untrained eye that it was a Mum and two youngsters that watched me carefully from the other side of the river occasionally squeaking at me. What a privilege to see such a sight. Another great day on the WUF.

7 Trout

Fished lower end of the beat with pellet and feeder tactics. Steady flow of fish through the day - mainly small Barbel (majority in the 2 to 3lb with a few even smaller-around 1lb!!). Finished with 12 Barbel one of which weighed 7lb 4oz and 2 chub around the 3lb mark. Rained all day, still quite heavy boat traffic with the vast majority very respectful but spoilt by two idiots in one boat who just appeared to be out to cause trouble.

12 Barbel, 2 Chub

Spinner.

4 Trout

3 perch.

Strong winds and rain made for difficult fishing conditions - temperature low. 3 chub & 2 wildies between 3 anglers on an unseasonably cold and wet day.

3 Chub, 2 Other

Our last day and last beat so decided to do about 12:30-7pm as we had to travel back. Really nice wild looking beat, but due to time constraints we decided to fish the accessible swims upstream in the deeper water.
I decided to put about 10 feeders of bait in to see if anything was about. Unfortunately being too eager, I caught a barbel within 5 mins of my first cast. It was all quiet after that probably due to me catching straight away instead of resting the swim. My brother lost what felt like a good fish and had a couple of chub.
I wish we could of fished the evening as I have no doubt we would of caught again. A great day on a lovely beat though and we were kept entertained by some huge fish leaping clear of the water upstream from us. Can only presume these were salmon. On another note care should be taken in the wet as it can be very slippery, next time we would definitely take a ground spike and a rope. Many thanks.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Difficult day with low air temperatures and high winds with constant squalls blowing downstream. Once again nothing rising of any note and mix of dry fly and gold head nymph secured the few fish. Lovely water and a favourite of our group but it was just colouring up after two days of rain so not in best shape.

4 Trout

Awesome day on the best WUF beat.

25 Barbel, 88 Chub