Feedback & Reports

On a very hot day on a low river we headed for the wood and fished the faster water of the lucky stones which turned out to be not lucky at all as the barbel simply would not feed . Fortunately we were kept entertained by a ravenous shoal of chub which took whatever we put on the hook below our feeder rigs . In all we managed 33 , mainly in the 2 to 3lb range with 27 coming to one rod . The hill round the wood was a real killer in the near 30 degrees heat .

33 Chub

Booked five days on Talybont this week but did not anticipate the heatwave! Fished for three hours in the blistering heat at the stream mid way down the reservoir. A light breeze heading towards the dam showed a few splashy risers. Very encouraging to see so many small fry in the stream flow though. The reservoir was completely full to the brim. Gave up before I turned to toast. No takes to a small stick fly.

Very hot day so lucky to get anything , two trout caught on nymphs in fast water , rest on dries very last thing (they waited till you could just barely see the fly ) caught on small CDC flies (baby sun /ducks dun type flies)

7 Trout

weather incredibly hot and bright so fishing difficult ,1 trout about 8 inches caught last thing on small red spinner

1 Trout

Very hot day with locals and dogs swimming in the river. Had 4 good chub on float fished bread many thanks.

4 Chub

With temperatures around 30℃ forecast an early start ensured , fish came from the off until about 1030am..
By 11am it was more like the serengeti, and it was time for me to escape the heat..a very enjoyable morning session, best barbell just over 9lb.

6 Barbel, 5 Chub

3 Trout

Fished 4am till 11, then too hot, fish for most part covered in lice and quite slimey, perhaps late spawning?

3 Barbel, 8 Chub

2 Chub

We were prepared for a hot and 'sticky' day. And it was. By the end of the afternoon we were exhausted - but this was more than compensated for by the number of fish we caught. We fished up and downstream, through the deeper pools and the shallower faster runs, and managed to take fish throughout the beat. All fish were taken with small nymph patterns - there were very few fish rising and nothing could be tempted with dry flies. Very small PTNs proved most successful, but we also secured fish using Greenwells Spiders, Snipe and Purple, and tiny wet-pattern winged March Browns. The fish looked in great, clean condition and were all returned - including numerous good-sized Grayling. An unusually productive day - we don't get many of these !!

12 Trout, 18 Grayling