Feedback & Reports

We started at around 11:00, and after a chat with the chap who looks after the beat (very informative and didn't catch his name!)headed right to the top and commenced from the bridge.
The river is fairly wide on this beat, and the lower water made access relatively easy, but there was still a good flow of water so some of the wading was tricky.
Light rain stopped pretty quickly, and with a warm overcast day, the conditions looked good (despite a periodic and brisk upstream wind).
We worked right through about two-thirds of the beat, and fishing small (16/18) dark nymphs across and down, managed 20+ fish between us - a terrific result for 2 enthusiastic amateurs! All were small wbt, the best to about 1.5 lbs, but what scrappers! All safely returned.
They came from a real mix of water, but mostly from the faster runs and glides at the heads and tails of slower pools and stretches.
A wonderful beat, but worth watching the river gauges as higher water would mean much more limited access

20 Trout

1 x trout 15 inches, Hatching Wet Olive. Another evening on Talybont, not another soul around and a cuckoo calling in the woods opposite. What a beautiful place to spend a few hours! Hard fishing tonight, though, with a colder wind and rain on the way. Two more fish came off.

1 Trout

Should have been fishing the Honddu W54(USK) but due to parking poblems ended up on the Llynfi Dulais W14. Lot's of missed takes a few small trout caught, (and I do mean small). Many thanks to the staff of the Booking office, they couldn't have been more helpful.

3 Trout

Cool start but olives hatching and we caught fish. Sun burns though clouds olives stop and we stop catching, hard from then on. Nymphs caught but it was slow and hot, this weather of ours? More fish to olives in evening but temp dropped big time and the rise stopped. Nice fish caught, all returned, will fish this beat again. 12 fish returned.

12 Trout

Not much activity despite good conditions. 2 trout on dry fly, both around 1.5lb.

2 Trout

Warm, overcast, fish rising to olives and the odd mayfly
1 wbt 9" in 1 hours fishing.

1 Trout

Manfully trying yet again to get a take of a passing Salmo but as usual not sight nor sound of such a Traveller! However the solitude was interrupted by aggressive pulls from Shad which put a smile on my face as they were very silver and ballsy !! 10 returned and 6 or 7 more prematurely released.

10 Other

7 Rainbow trout all on pheasant tail nymphs just below surface. Weather sunny, slight breeze, odd fish rising.

7 Trout

5 Trout from 9 to 14 inch, all in super condition and fighting fit condition, lovely ...
River was fairly quiet with just a few olives and mayfly popping off, turning over the stones revealed plenty of Nymphs of all descriptions and a fair shrimp population and some huge sedge cases too! Lovely bit of river with some fabulous dry fly runs and glides and yes access is a bit tricky as has been noted before but just have a wander round and you"ll find a way through OK, the 'vertical' bank sections are deep and slow anyway and not much fun to fish the fly.

A good bonus is that there's no barbed wire fencing, tightly strung waiting to put holes in your waders and ones other parts down there ...

5 Trout

River was low but four fish rising in different areas. Amazing caddis hatch and a couple of mays to. Incredible amount of insect life. Used a dry fly but missed a take. First wild stream session. Great experience but tough. Lovely river.