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2017 onwards THE FISHING PASSPORT Tel: 01874 712 074 www.fishingpassport.co.uk Over 500km of salmon, sea trout, brown trout, grayling and coarse fishing across Wales and The Marches, along with some of the area’s best still waters. 1 Participating Rivers Front cover photo: Trout & Salmon magazine 2 Passport Contents Autumnal Pilgrimage ...................... 24-27 Features and Information Coarse Fishing ................................ 28/29 Coarse Anglers - What is The Foundation Biosecurity ........................................... 32 doing for you? .................................... 6-7 Minimising the Impact of Canoeing ....... 33 ...and for Game Anglers?..................... 8-9 Canoeing on the Wye & Usk ................. 34 Passport Q&A ...................................... 10 Canoeing Code of Conduct ................... 35 Leaving a Legacy ................................ 13 Guiding & Instruction ........................... 37 Salmon .......................................... 14/15 Wild Streams Day ................................ 41 The New Charles Farlow Trophy ............ 16 Tenkara ................................................ 41 Trout & Grayling .............................. 18/19 Fishery Focus - Letton Court ................ 48 Fishery Focus - Bucknell ...................... 22 Further Fishing Information ................... 79 WUF Gift Vouchers ............................... 79 Please Note: Booking Your Fishing How to Access the Fishing ..................... 5 Whilst the Wye & Usk Foundation endeavours to ensure that the information provided in Wye ................................................ 42-45 this booklet is accurate, we cannot be held Usk ................................................. 50/51 liable for any errors or discrepancies that occur. Through the “Fishing Passport”, miles Hidden Lakes & Reservoirs ............. 54-56 of wilderness fishing has been opened up Teifi ...................................................... 57 that would otherwise be largely inaccessible to visiting anglers. With any fishing there Towy & Cothi .................................. 58/59 are risks involved. Whilst we endeavour to Loughor ............................................... 60 highlight any such risks, the Foundation cannot be held liable for any accidents, Aeron & Arth ........................................ 61 personal injury or damage to property. Taff ...................................................... 62 Eden & Prysor ...................................... 63 East & West Cleddau ............................ 64 The Fishing Passport is produced and distributed by: The Wye & Usk Foundation, The Right Bank, Dee ...................................................... 65 The Square,Talgarth, Brecon, Powys LD3 0BW Registered Charity No. 1080319 The Wild Streams Introduction .................................... 66/67 Tel: 01874 712 074 email: [email protected] Fly Fishing Small Streams ............... 68/69 www.fishingpassport.co.uk Wye & Usk Wild Streams Map ......... 70/71 www.wyeuskfoundation.org Upper Wye, Ithon & Irfon ...................... 72 Edw ..................................................... 73 Clettwr, Llynfi & Llynfi Dulas ................. 74 Lugg & Arrow ...................................... 75 Monnow & Garren ................................ 76 Forest of Dean Streams ........................ 77 Usk Tributaries ..................................... 78 3 Introduction ow much more quickly winter gives Hway to spring these days? Every year we try to beat the swallows by getting our latest (the fifteenth) edition of the Passport through your door. As in previous years, we are pleased to announce some changes. The first is to the online booking system. Our team has been working with towels over their heads throughout autumn and winter to bring you a very smart, new looking website – fishingpassport.co.uk It is a much more flexible system but with the familiar links to reports, accommodation, weather and river conditions. We hope you find it enjoyable to use but please keep your comments and suggestions coming so we can continue to impacts of agriculture on rivers. They are now improve the scheme. working with over 800 farmers to ensure that 2016 was a memorable year for a number soil and nutrients stay on the farm and out of of reasons. The huge winter rain gave way our streams. This work also reduces flooding, to more typical summer weather with rain increases drought flows and helps to solve falling regularly throughout which in turn was climate change. followed by a dry autumn. All forms of fishing All this requires funding and we feel our first benefitted. The spring salmon fishing was the call should be made to the chief beneficiaries; best for decades on the Wye, summer salmon fishery owners and, of course, anglers. I urge fishing was good on the Usk and Wye, though you to take a moment to read the following the rest of Wales struggled with numbers. The few pages on how our work benefits you. dry autumn may not have helped the salmon but there were plenty of opportunities for Many owners have supported us with coarse fishers and later the grayling came into generous annual donations and we are their own. We would be delighted if 2017 lives able to turn every £1 donated into a £10 up to all that! investment in the health of the rivers. We ask you, our anglers of all denominations, to help The Passport is, of course, the final part invest in and secure the future of our pastime. of the river restoration process. The bulk Forms for one-off donations or regular of the Foundation’s work is taken up with standing orders can be found on pages 11 environmental issues affecting the coarse and 12. and game fishing on both rivers and we are pressing on with our projects in relation to this. All that remains is for me to wish you success This involves more fencing and fish passes and enjoyment of our wonderful rivers, the along with schemes to re-gravel rivers such as scenery and the hospitality. the Elan and Caerfanell, plus the ever present With best wishes, need for maintenance: keeping the passes Simon Evans clear; re-dosing the acidified sections and keeping the fences up! On top of that our farm team continues to make progress in reducing the negative Chief Executive, The Wye & Usk Foundation 4 How to access the fishing ccess to hundreds of fisheries Before booking please ensure you have read Athroughout Wales and the border and understood all the terms & conditions, areas (Marches) are just a few clicks of the especially with regards refunds, re-bookings mouse or a telephone call away. and wash-offs. Once you have booked, our The Fishing Passport is essentially a day system emails you what is effectively your ticket scheme for salmon, coarse, trout day ticket, along with the information you and grayling fishing which can be booked need to get to the fishery – maps, directions online or by calling us on 01874 712 074 etc. (office hours 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday). For small stream fly fishers, we also run the The following pages describe generally Wild Streams, which work slightly differently the fishing that is available through the to normal fisheries. Please see pages 66 and scheme, along with river maps showing 67 for more information. roughly where the fisheries are. These days, we rely more on technology and less on Fishery Owners, Clubs and printed material to provide you with as much Syndicates information as we can. A new feature of the fishingpassport.co.uk The fishingpassport.co.uk website is will be that the system will allow clubs and therefore the place to go if you want detailed fishery owners to administer their own fishery descriptions, along with angling fisheries – change availability, prices, rules feedback, catch returns, instructors & guides, & regs etc. Even if a club or owner offers no local accommodation and information on public day tickets, they can run their club or river conditions. syndicate bookings through it privately, with their waters not being viewable by anyone We are, of course, happy to give advice over other than those with permission. the phone on subjects such as conditions and suitable beats but we also urge anglers If you are a club or owner on any river or to use the website for their own research stillwater anywhere in the world and would purposes. There is a wealth of information on like more information on this service, please there and it is what we use to advise anglers contact us on 01874 712 074 or email: that call us. [email protected] 5 Coarse Anglers What is the Foundation doing for you? ome would say that Wye coarse Sanglers have never had it so good and they don’t mean just in terms of fish numbers either. Modern booking systems and, perhaps, a more enlightened outlook has meant so much more water is now open for an activity that was once largely restricted to the winter months. From June 16th the Wye now welcomes hundreds of anglers on a daily basis in pursuit of the Wye’s barbel and other coarse species. A glance at WUF’s logo and it’s easy to see why we are sometimes viewed as a salmon- orientated organisation. It’s true that the Foundation was set up in 1996 by salmon fishery owners concerned by the decline in this iconic species. However, all of the work in the Irfon catchment has been underway we have done since has been to restore for some time and we continue to apply the river to a better state and thus improve yearly doses of sand lime to those streams conditions for all fish species. Coarse