Feedback & Reports

Been a while since last here and has certainly grown on some, been a good growing season! .It was a bit tricky to find a clear way through it first (discounting the camp field stretch...too busy on the site) but crossing over to the left bank via the sheep drink just where the camping fields end and then walking up that field and then in to the small field after this there is a way through in to the river here (just !) and brings you on to the river just below dog leg a to the right (see pic ) where there is a very good and attractive pool ! A good number of good sized fish where in the pool here and then its wadeable for quite a way up until I got to some very deep pools and had to get out , which was interesting ! The banks where a bit socked in again for quite a way so soldiered on to the back of the Tregunter farm area and here the banks open out and there is a series of really very good runs and pools just perfect for a dry and a good number of fish within.
Absolutely great fun and all the fish where of good size up to 11" and all fell for the old faithful size 16 para adams , even though there was very little hatching they would come up for it very well indeed just fished blind in to likely spots. Plenty were missed too on the strike as they really nailed the fly at times.
A pair of kingfishers being busy up and down all afternoon and a red kite overhead at tree top height just added to a lovely afternoon ! Loads of minnows in the river too.

7 Trout

Nice overcast day with rain the river was a good height and flow, fish caught on a mixture of french leader and dry fly on olives fish rising all over the beat we lost a good 15 fish many more missed few sedges starting to come off later on

12 Trout, 33 Grayling

Great day out and a lovely location.

4 Barbel, 4 Chub

Fished upstream from the car parking at cwm farm. May flies were coming off all day but not many fish rising. Throughout the day had success on a yellow may spider pattern retrieved slowly through the deeper pools. At 4pm the fish switched on to the dry fly in the streamy water and enjoyed the best evening of dryfly fishing I have ever experienced, catching 15+ fish in 2 hours on a parachute adams. All fish from 3-8" and returned safe.

20 Trout

2 Barbel

6 Barbel

5 x trout 6-8 inches, Rusty Klinkhammer. A quick early morning trip up the channel with water very low and fish remarkably spooky - mostly on the pool tails. I missed or spooked a lot, but it was good to be out after a week indoors

5 Trout

River low with some colour, barbel in great condition. Three eels landed which is great to see them in the river and even funnier on the end of my mates line!!!

6 Barbel, 2 Chub, 3 Other

Tough going with low water and the annoying down stream wind has returned.
I only fished half the beat up to the train station where I called it a day after losing my fly to a tree.
3 Trout 6,8 and 10 inches 1 on a nymph and 2 to a soft hackle dry.
Still a few Mayfly hatching.

3 Trout

The river was very low, but had a tinge of colour. There was not much weed growth compared with previous years.
I was catching barbel on float-fished pellet until a succession of canoists, dogs, wild swimmers and family swimmers invaded my swim and my fishing was finished for the day by 11am. Paying as much as we do for fishing, this is very disappointing. I realise it is one of the perils of fishing the Wye in summer, but that doesn't make it any less irritating.

4 Barbel, 5 Chub