Feedback & Reports

1 x 12lb salmon, 1 x 3lb chub, 1 x 2lb brown trout.

All on fly, all returned.... do I get another extra large sweat shirt???

WUF Note: Yes, and a ?10 Sportfish voucher for releasing Wye salmon after June 16th!!! For more details see: http://www.wyeuskfoundation.org/projects/salmonconservation.php

Fished this beat for the first time today and was really pleased to have got a decent days fishing at what can be a difficult time for trout anglers. The day started slowly considering the good cloud cover and recent rainfall, only a single fish rising to my adams parachute right at the bottom of the beat. I moved to the Brecon end of the beat shortly before lunch, partly to try and escape what was becoming a difficult downstream wind, partly to try and find some fish. It was here that I tried some nymphs for a while but with no success. I changed to a adams wolff and persevered against the downstream wind bringing 4 fish to the net (1 x 14Oz, 2 x 10Oz and 1 x 6Oz) and about a dozen to the surface. All fish being returned.

10th Jul - Penpont

I only had a short time to fish this beat today and unfortunately I have nothing to report, I may try again next week depending on weather conditions.

Had a very enjoyable day for a change. 14 Trout, 13 of which were all around the pound mark 1 was small at about 6". Mainly taken on goldhead nymphs though 3 were taken on stimulator dry fly in the evening. Pleasant surroundings I'll definitely be coming back.

17 Barbel ranging from 3lbs 14ozs to 8lbs 2ozs. 2 Chub best around 3lbs 8ozs.

A great days fishing on a lovely stretch of the Wye. Thank you.

At 8am the days fishing started on the downstream end of the Abernant section. The river was slightly coloured from recent rainfall and with a decent flow. During the morning 4 x WTB were caught on adam's wolff/para patterns with quite a few more being missed. All fish being approx 1/2lb and returned safely.

The adam's patterns have fished consistantly well for me on both rivers since early June and seem to be a good starting place for anglers visiting beats for the 1st time or when there is no specific insect life to target. I took 1 x 1/2lb grayling shortly after lunch on a very small BH diawl bach fished under the adam's parachute kiwi style.

I moved upstream to the Plas Gwyn section in the middle of the afternoon but given the river conditions on the day I decided that wading into the river from the right bank to facilitate fishing was solely restricted to fearless or accompanied anglers. So it was at this time that I decided to call it a day. Luckily for me just as the torrential rain began.

All in all another great days fishing provided by the WUF.

2 small trout on Pheasant Tail nymph, both returned.
Although I had not made any arrangement with Stuart Jarvis he took time to give me advice. The wind was unhelpful and very few fish were rising in the daytime.

10 trout landed. Small brown trout mostly. 3 brown trout at 1/4 lb.

Most successful dry fly was the Iron blue most successful wet fly black hackle with red collar, 14 hook. Quite difficult to gain access (due to steep inclines and trees) to the lower beat regions for the deeper water pools. My son found it much easier than I did to get to these inticing fishing spots. Please try to make it a little easier for the oldies!

All in all a lovely place to spend the day. Thank you.

1 Barbel and 2 Chub on pellets. Fishing very hard even though the conditions were good. River very weedy could not fish some of the swims due to this.

Very wet, downstream wind. Nothing rising but even nymphs didn't produce. Gave up after 3 hours to dry out!

Nothing caught - one salmon showed in the Vanstone.