Feedback & Reports

First time at Middle Hill Court. Lovely accessible beat. The river now has a good colour to it with a fair amount of flow. A lot of debris and weed being carried down made fishing difficult at times. The rain today did not let off during the A.M with one torrential downpour/thunderstorm followed by constant steady rain. This lasted until mid afternoon. Nevertheless we still managed to bank 3 barbel and a chub between us. The rain stopped bringing with it some bright sunshine into the evening, with temperatures getting quite warm compared to what it had been in the previous hours. We both continued to catch steadily for the rest of the day into the evening until it was time to leave.
All fish were caught between the parking area and the 'end of beat' sign. Method used was feeder at no more than a couple rod lengths out aiming for creases or features.
Bait used was boilie, pellet, paste and meat combinations.

11 Barbel, 2 Chub

Worm and pollyball used as bait. Weather raining reservoir water clean.

3 Trout

Sewin caught during an absolutely torrential downpour.

1 Sea Trout

Fished the river from Rhydycar up through Merthyr town. River was quite high so opted for a French leader with a team of heavy nymphs. Managed to catch 3 dozen fish ranging from 1/2lb up to 21 inches which is around 3lb. All of the fish had been feeding very well with big fat bellies and the bigger fish having big shoulders. Awesome fishing.

36 Trout

Clean hen fish of 5-6lbs taken on a size 10 Ally's Shrimp at ten o'clock, from the Maddox before the weekend onslaught of boat craft. The advice given by Mick Sutton the Ghillie was invaluable, proffering lie, pool information and successful fly selection.
The weather was hot and over cast in the morning and it brightened up at lunch as we retired to the Hostelrie to allow the boats to pass. The afternoon brought cloud cover then a huge thunder storm curtailing the fishing. Great beat and thanks Mick and WUF.

1 Salmon

Good flow but clear. Good hatch and rises. My first time on dry fly (a couple of hours) - caught two 9 inches on para adams. Nice spot. Stayed at the Tanners' Arms - nice stay/food.
Called in to Fishtec just off the Brecon by-pass. Ceri kindly sorted out my rod problem - shop worth a visit.
Getting on and some waters round here a challenge re. access. They should send local SAS trainees to try these - a few might succeed!

2 Trout

12lb hen Salmon at 9am and then a cock salmon close to 20lbs at 6pm. Both slightly coloured but in absolute mint condition and swam off strongly. My first and second Wye salmon on the fly after two years trying!
Thank you to Mr. S for netting the second for me.

2 Salmon, 4 Trout

The river appeared to be high and fast. I did not have any luck using a variety of dry flies or nymphs.

Another excellent day on the Craig Llyn stretch. I fished as a guest of Shaun Watkins who very kindly let me loose on this excellent stretch of river. Shaun had a very nice trout of a 1 1/2 and nice grayling about 3/4 to a 1lb. We fished klink and dink with a small natural weighted nymph under a klinkhammer. Shaun also was fishing wet spider patterns casting across and swinging the team around with some great success. There is a superb head of fish, set in beautiful countryside, access is good with the new stiles and all the strimming of the banks. Wading is good. In a couple of swims I would take a wading staff just to be safe but otherwise wading is fairly easy with felt or foam studded boats and chest waders.

4 Trout, 11 Grayling

Unsuccessful day this time but very enjoyable with many takes. Fished a floating line DT with mostly weighted nymphs. Still very new to river fishing but will be back. Saw two huge leaping fish around mid-day, possible salmon. Was sharing the beat with a fellow salmon angler, who like
myself was worried about the oncoming storm, but we carried on and was able to help him land the catch of the day, a 30 inch long Salmon, just about fitted in the landing net. Well done Mr G.