Feedback & Reports

6 trout and 2 parr but no salmon seen or caught. Largely overcast, river came up 6" or so and then dropped back. Couldn't have asked for more other than a fish or two.
Lovely beat.

Very windy all day. Little fly and few rises. LN Tenkara-ed and DC fished conventionally. Had just a dozen fish between us, mainly grayling to about ten inches. Fish mainly taken on PTNs. Surprisingly disappointing fishing in the dubs in the woods where some more clearance in the upper part of the wooded section would help on a number of fronts. Access there far better than it was a year ago though!

Fish were in a bit more of a feeding mood today. A total of 18 barbel and 2 chub were caught. 15 of the fish came from within the Wood and included fish of 10lb4oz and 10lb8oz and also a PB chub of 5lb3oz for the captor.
The other fish came off Legge Meadow and included a PB 10lb10oz barbel for its captor. Yet again groundbait/pellet was the winning combination but to be honest given the previuos days results, we were now concentrating on this method.

25 barbel best of 10lb 1Oz, 15 Chub to 5lb most caught on sweet corn, river low needs another 2ft of water. Nice venue, not enough swims as for the walk. You need SAS training, most fish came from swim by stone columns. Long walk to swims at upper limit.

Had a great day roving. 12 barbel to 9lbs caught on halibut pellet back next year for sure.

7 barbel, best 8.5lbs

13 x grayling 8-15 inches, 9 x trout 6-9 inches, on dries and spiders.
Rather a strange day. A cold wind all the time, with bright sun giving way to cloud and a few showers. The morning was really difficult with absolutely no fish coming to the surface and large amounts of weed floating down. In fact the river was rising, as I realised when I stuck a stick in the margin. This freshet was due to heavy rain in central Wales the night before - but the water was not colouring at all. Checking the webcam trace when I got home, I found it rose 6 inches during the morning and then dropped around 3 inches during the afternoon. As the river began to fall, the grayling woke up to some extent and I had some sport. However they were really picky about fly patterns and there was much boiling under the fly or otherwise coming short. There were a few dark olives...and willow fly...about, everything grey, and the patterns which worked to some extent were Grayling Steel Blue, Grey Duster and Waterhen Bloa

1 brown trout returned. A lovely days fishing. Thanks.

Just two small Brownies between us (9" apiece). Water very clear (I think they could see us coming!). A few fish rising but nothing consistent so hard to get them to the dry fly. A couple of missed takes as well. Pale Yellow Parachute and Light Olive the taking flies.
Sporadic hatches throughout the day. Weather was mild with a bit of light rain. A downstream breeze made presentation difficult but that's the price you pay for being a diehard dry fly addict.
Both fish returned.

Arrived about 10 ish, one salmon fisherman in action, at lunchtime he left and two more salmon anglers arrived, later in the afternoon another course angler arrived and then two men collected their pedalo (Yes I really mean in Pedalo!) from the bank and pedalled up stream. Quite a busy day. On the fishing side of things I caught 4 Chub, all good fish but not a sight or smell of the Barbel.
Thanks to WUF however for the beats that we can all choose.