Feedback & Reports

A wonderful first day for me on Caradoc, a beautiful place for a days fishing with good banks with fly and spinning water with the benefit of being able to drive your car along all of the bank when dry. fished the fly below the suspension bridge most of the day, lots of shad taking and bumping the fly to give some fun with the absence of any sign of salmon . Anglers beware of the wasp nest on the back of the toilet door by the hut, they certainly gave me a buzz when I opened it !! ( Ha Ha )
15 plus Shad

9 Other

River still quite low despite recent rain but carrying just a hint of colour, weather warm and mostly sunny.
Fished the upstream beat in the morning, some flies of various types coming off, including yellow May Duns and later a few proper Mayflies made a welcome appearance. Lots and lots of rises immediately below the bridge but catching proved more difficult than I expected but trial and error with different flies soon had a couple in the net before I moved on up stream.
After this things slowed as the sun got very warm, but eventually I found a fish rising on the far side in flat water before the water broke into rapids, it took my fly then charged off downstream into the fast water, this was a very good fish but finally came off after my hook broke on the bend!...gutted.
The afternoon was spent on the lower half of the beat the fishing improved as the sun started to lose it's intensity and Mayflies started to appear, I took another five trout, missed some great takes and lost another big fish. All fish between 6-13in. taken on dries in great condition and all returned.

7 Trout

RIver low but enough rising fish to make a good evening. Usual mayfly pattern worked well

5 Trout

Small emergers gave way to a Steady hatch of mayfly. Conditions tricky with low water and low branches! But we like a Challange. Wonderful bird life kingfisher, dippers, buzzards as you might expect also hobby, tawny owl.

20 Trout

Fished from mid day to 8pm. Seven trout, 2 to PTN the rest to dry fly, best fish 12". Fish rising to Mayflys.

7 Trout

It was a perfect day mayflies every were my friend and i had one trout each about 9in long we both lost a fish each and there was plenty of fish rising we started after lunch and finished about 7 30 pm.

2 Trout

Good conditions in the morning. Fish to 1 1/2 pounds caught on drys and nymphs. Varied hatch. Cold downstream wind in the afternoon slowed things down somewhat. Contrary to many reports we found trout throughout the beat not just at the top end.

10 Trout

Pleasant day out on the Wye which started out with an upstream wind, which obviously didn't inconvenience me enough so it changed to a downstream wind later in the day. The weather was warm with occasional cloud, and sometimes the wind dropped enough for the odd fish to take off the surface.
I fished a heavy nymph under a an indicator and slowly made my way up stream, but only on the right bank. Which is very easy due to the path and occasional steps to the runs.
I saw a nice salmon in the pool below the house, I managed to get a good look before it spooked and shot off into the depths.
Overall a very relaxing beat, that is very well maintained and accessible, there are some more difficult runs and pools to get to for those of you want to risk a soaking though.

2 Trout, 3 Grayling

Lovely day Low clear water Landed one in a Hares ear dry fly

1 Trout