Feedback & Reports

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Lovely beat, enjoyed getting out for an early cast. A few small grannom and march browns about, but very quiet in terms of action. Weather cloudy with sunshine, had rained quite heavily the night before. Will be back again./

1 Grayling

Well, a disastrous, long awaited start to the season ! Only one of us was able to dip a toe in my much loved Irfon today. My mate had to deal with an inept builder so had to cancel . I arrived and had a chat with lovely Joyce and her neighbour, she and her grandson are quite excited about letting out this stretch. Unfortunately, although the “heavy overnight rain” predicted hadn’t affected the the levels, I’m afraid the nasty cross and downstream wind did ! Oh , I became feeling quite unwell too ?! Aborted after a couple of hrs, no cast presentable so no ladies/wbt . Nice beat as far as I could see. Gutted.

6 Trout

no joy

23 Trout

4 Chub

4 x trout 12-15 inches, Waterhen Bloa. This was a very wet morning of relentless rain. I started with the spiders with the idea of cashing in hopefully on an olive hatch by midday or a little later. But the rain got stronger and the river started to rise instead. Chunks of the bank fell into the river. No fly and the fish seemed to switch off, so I trailed off home in a rather bedraggled state.

4 Trout

The river level was normal to low for time of year, about 1ft visibility. It was quite mild but rained all day. Started fishing on the crease in the bottom swims which produced an eel on cheesepaste but otherwise was strangely quiet on the feeder and lead. Tried bread, meat and pellet with no success. Roved upstream and caught good chub (3-4lb) from undercut banks. Moved back to the crease at the bottom for the afternoon and started to get knocks on boilie. Was hoping for a barbel. However, the rain and wind intensified and we gave up around 4pm when the brollies took off! Fantastic wildlife - a flock of siskins, chiffchaff, redpoll, Barnacle goose, goosander and buzzards kept us entertained despite the weather.

6 Chub, 1 Other

River in great condition fishing a little bit patchy but one nice barbel 11 lb 3 oz plus 2 smaller,with 4 nice chub.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub