Feedback & Reports

Great fly water but no luck today. Six salmon moving in Vanstone and 2 in the wires. But no takes on fly apart from a chub and a perch. This must be the best kept beat on the river - clear pathways and cut out steps.

1 Chub, 1 Other

3 x trout 11-17 inches, Bibio and Pearly Harry. Another stormy evening on the shores of Talybont, with a big wind pushing white horses down the lake and a rather lurid sunset reflecting on the underside of clouds. Threatened rain, however, never quite came. Regulars are talking about the condition of some of the Talybont fish, which are really quite superb this season. One wonders what it is they are doing so well on: snail, corixae, sticklebacks? One of the disadvantages of rarely using a priest, these days, is that you don't get to use a marrow spoon either.

3 Trout

Fished on bottom with pop up, caught approx 3 crayfish. No Trout. Two of us fished with float, caught 1 trout and approx 6 crayfish. Not many others catching on the day.

1 Trout

Fished from the croys and on the beach section. Just the one barbel. Tried every method we knew but couldn't find the fish today. Day 3 of 3 - had a wonderful time on the beautiful River Wye. Do we all really know how lucky we are to have this river and to have the fishing managed by WUF? Thanks to all at WUF, we'll be back.

1 Barbel

Another lovely day on a wonderful stretch, all fish on pellet. Thank you Wye and Usk.

6 Barbel, 5 Chub

Water as low and clear as can be possible. I fished with a 50+ year old split cane 7 ft rod and 6 weight dry line and managed two small par in the wood stream. John Phillips went to the top run and had a similar experience. This was from 7 -8.30.
John switched to rock and lost one beauty on a CDC and landed one of about half pound. I went in at the steps for last half hour while John fished tail of Chine Pool. I landed 5 between 9.30 and 10 all between half and three quarter pound, and lost several large fish in the rock cut. A very lively half hour. John had one small fish at the tail which was disappointing. Probably fish move from the belly up the cut to the faster flow at the rock as many large fish were feeding late on. Surprisingly good last half hour given the water conditions.

12 Trout

Evening session using methods recommended in Courtfield literature provided landed two large barbel, a large chub and some smaller ones on one rod. Despite using the same set up the other rod had just one small knock. Good sport. We'll be back soon hopefully.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

worm

6 Trout

worm

4 Trout

Caught a couple of WBT and connected with a few others briefly. Prolific hatch in the early evening largely ignored by the fish.

2 Trout