Feedback & Reports

To be honest I wouldn't have booked this beat if I had known(it's the top end of Cefnllysgwynne on the easier bank). I thought it would be the next beat up!. I've looked at it before and it was all bedrock and fast water,today was different, it was just bedrock! Hardly any water at all, just a very narrow gutter and some Stillwater pools! Walked the entire beat looking for somewhere I fancied for grayling and plumped on a long shallower gutter near the top end. A few casts latter I had a 10" trout and lost a nice grayling of a pound+. A little further I hooked into what I first thought was a salmon but turned out to be a monster wbt!(3.5lb weighed). Yes I know it's out of season but its still a hell of a big fish for such a now small piece of water.
Thanks wye and usk for a great weeks fishing and some lovely weather for a change!

2 Trout

River very low, nothing seen or caught, but had a lovely day nonetheless.

Chub caught on rolled meat though the weed. The barbel was caught in the faster water past the bridge. River in need of more water.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Second day on the Wye but no better than the first. One Barbel caught late in the day on meat otherwise a tough day. Sadly the river is in desperate need of rain but this venue is stunning and has loads of potential. I am sure we will return.

1 Barbel

Beautiful setting. Fished hard all day and moved several times. Just one bite on luncheon meat late in the afternoon produced a 9lb barbel.

1 Barbel

Tried trotting for about 5 hours from mid-morning onwards. 2 grayling of about 10-12 inches caught and several more lost. 1 trout of about 10 inches, half a dozen small grayling, a few small trout/salmon parr and minnows also caught.

1 Trout, 8 Grayling

Beat unfishable due to very low water levels.

No water. A few fish moving early on...

Dropped in after a poor day at Mortimers Cross.
3 small grayling between us but enjoyable never the less.

3 Grayling

A lovely day - generally quite sunny with a bit of cloud, and pretty calm apart from an intermittent pesky upstream wind, which didn't help presentation at times, but helped to get the leaf off the trees plus the bugs that come with them, so plenty of fish in the leaf and foam lanes. Water low at 5" on the Llanstephan guage. Some small olives and PWs came off in the morning then fewer in the afternoon, plus some needle flies and latterly a few caddis. Fish were rising from our somewhat late 10 a.m. start until a 6 p.m. finish when we had to drag ourselves away in spite of fish still rising. It should have been "grayling heaven" and indeed it was. Most of the grayling were in the familiar 8-10" class but four 12", two 13", one 14" and one 16", one and a half pounder, put in an appearance as well. All fish were taken off the top, mainly on small hare's ear and darkish olive emergers. We tried nymphs and spiders when the fish were not rising but failed to move anything, either in the pools, necks or the streamier water. The trout, the best of which was 12", were also taken off the top, as were a few graylets. A wonderful day all round!

4 Trout, 55 Grayling