Feedback & Reports

Fishing as a guest of the owner : 6lbs hen, and 13lbs hard fighting cock on small black fly on full float line.
My first return trip to the upper Wye since my May salmon capture and so encouraging to fish in the rain for a change. Well most of the pools up here have held salmon since all that winter and spring rain. Now with temperatures dropping and a small river rise, the salmon (as I write) are not yet running through, but beginning to think about it. My plan was to wade deep in the low river, and with a small black fly on a full floater fish the fast shallow(ish) heads of the pools. It's great fun and a tremendous asset, to use the exposed boulders to hold the line out there over the holes behind. Sure enough, right at the head of the ash tree pool a 6 pounder came to the net. Two hours later in the fast white water of the Aber Pool a very strong 13 pound cock fish fought all the way to the net. The Craig Llyn beat is indeed a wonderfully exciting place to fish for salmon, and I believe the upper river presently holds quite a few. Given one good spate there should be plenty to catch.

2 Salmon

Good day, lost loads, taking on bottom and spinner. Weather as per forecast with the big down pour at 13:00. Only ones on the water today.

8 Trout

Lovely beat with plenty of pegs, however there could be lots more cracking pegs dug out without too much effort.
Weather all over the place with sun, rain and wind, usual methods tried. 3 barbel in total, 1 very small at about a 1lb, 1 about 4lb and 1 about 7lb. Nothing else apart from a dozen very small chub and dace on the stick float on sweet corn.
The whole river is fishing bad at the moment and this stretch is no different. We fished from 8am until 6pm all for 3 bites between us!!!
Will return when the river picks up as it's stunning with buzzards, kingfishers to keep you interested while the tip never moves!!

3 Barbel

River in good condition, and two salmon jumping on beat 4, but not to our flies.

Fished on the last peg all day. Met the owner who was very pleasant and helpful. Found the fish mid afternoon. Very good day. River had come up a few inches.

11 Barbel, 1 Chub

4 Barbel, 4 Chub

Had a short session on 5th Oct and lost a large grayling on a red tag having changed from nymphing after a savage take on the red indicator. Went back to same pool for a brief visit on 7th Oct - after heavy rain river only up a couple of inches but very coloured and full of debris. One small grayling in faster shallows on sparse nymph pattern.

1 Grayling

After 2 bad days we hoped things would get better, how wrong we were, 3 anglers fished all day and we worked hard at it but not a single touch. All very disappointed. River low. It was an overcast morning but sunny afternoon. Used all the normal baits and tricks. See Thomas Wood and How Caple Court for previous two days. As stated before, investment into accessing swims would help.

Warm and sunny conditions which felt like August rather than October. The river level was steady for the first 3 hours then rose 8 inches during the next 3. Lots of weed coming down the river made it difficult to keep the feeder out. 1 Barbel (8lb 4ozs) and 3 Chub (3lb each). Barbel taken on pellet; Chub on meat. Fished in first field opposite the willows.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

A Cock of 9.5 pounds fished on fly( Willie Gun) on the Withey pool.
I saw a Cormorant.

08/10 on the Rectory beat. Upper part is not accessible and has to many brambles. We were very disappointed about this.

WUF Note. The named salmon pools are all fishable on the Rectory. The section from Bridge pool to Ty-Mawr does not hold salmon and no effort is made to make it accessible

1 Salmon