Feedback & Reports

Thought Tuesday's rain would lift the river level, it did but not enough. So the salmon rod was left in the car. Both of us failed to connect with any fish. Very sunny, downstream wind. Very little fly life and no fish showing. So these two old duffers failed to catch and fish. Thursday we fished the Builth town water and again failed to catch.
A lot of fly life on the fly run but nothing rising to them.
I stayed in the white horse , very pleasant.

First visit to this stretch and fished from 1pm till 9pm. River low and clear. Started off about half way along the stretch on the faster swims, and had 1 barbel about 4lb at 3pm, caught on 12mm pellet and straight lead.
Then moved to the top swim about 5pm and fished meat catching 1 chub. I then moved back down a couple of swims at 7pm and fished meat to catch 2 small chub and 2 barbel about 7lb/ 8 lb which made my day.

All fish were in great condition and the barbel fought really well. There's only a short walk to the parking and it's a nice peaceful stretch. Some of the pegs are on a slope so would be easy to fall in when its wet, and you need a long landing net handle in some places.

A great day and I would fish this stretch again. Thank you WUF.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

Dry day with plenty of sunshine after a cool start. Moved several times before finding any barbel on usual method of pellet and feeder. Several chub on float and sweetcorn which made a nice change. Best barbel 7 lbs and chub to nearly 4 lb. Nice chat with Colin.

8 Barbel, 10 Chub

Despite an early start we struggled throughout the day and it was from 5:30pm that we caught the majority of fish. Low water conditions probably had something to do with the lack of action during the day. Feeder with various combinations of baits was the method used.

8 Barbel

Second day of our trip. We'd fished this stretch a couple of years back so knew what to expect in terms of swims. My mate fished the wooded section while I fished the last swim by the hut. Levels much lower than when we'd fished before. My friend had a 7.5lb Barbel and 8 Chub up to 4.5lb.
I managed to catch 6lb 2oz, 7lb 7oz Barbel and a couple of Chub in the 3lb bracket. Swim feeder and Halibut pellets/Meat tactics employed.

3 Barbel, 10 Chub

Please note that there were two anglers. We fished nymph and dry fly. It is such a pity that the woodland sections at both ends are inaccessible when that could easily be changed.
Regrettably, a steer got into the river and charged around in the water half way through the day, which didn't improve the fishing!

7 Trout, 4 Grayling

It was great to be on the river again. Bright sunshine,great for fishermen no good for catching fish.

3 Grayling

2 Barbel

Fished from 2pm till 7pm due to getting stuck on the M25. Rained constantly and may have stayed a little longer but was drenched! Fished the upper section and settled into the least slippery and dangerous swim. Had one bite resulting in a cracking barbel of just over 9lb.

Advisable to have a dog spike and rope when it's wet on this beat, it saved me a fall into the river!

1 Barbel

3 Trout, 7 Grayling