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Gliffaes Hotel fishing book

Gliffaes has a long fishing tradition that has seen many satisfied anglers coming back time and time again. Don't just take our word for it though, you can see for yourself by browsing through the entries in our online fishing book.

Had a great day on the river? Whether it was your first catch or your hundredth, you are welcome to join in and post about your experiences fishing at Gliffaes and become part of something special.

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Date No. of fish Fly used Comments
26 Sept 1 Black Pennal

John Hathaway

Another great day on the river.
25 Sept 1 Gold Head, Wimberry

Dan McMullen

Epic battle reminescent of Ned Gunn's Highland river but hooked beautifuly with local wimberries. 11pm.
17 Sept 4 #20 Sulphur, #22 BWO

jack McCrory

Beautiful day on the water.
13 Sept 11 trout and 2 sea trout Tealblue & Silver, Butcher

P.Deggrussa, P.Chapronier

Water low, most fish after dark. Daytime in shady runs.
8 Sept 4 GRHE, Caddis

Barry Atkinson

Water very low. Fish in pools.
2 Sept 2 GRHE, Black CDC

Paul Parey

Cold & Cloudy
31 Aug 3 sea trout Teal & Silver

Jimmy Devoy & S.Glynn-Williams

Fished till 10.30pm but well lit up by a campfire.
28 Aug 2 sea trout Butcher

Jimmy Devoy & S.Glynn-Williams

Rising trout but no luck. Two sea trout later in the pitch black at 10pm.
28 Aug 2 Grey Caddis

Tony Meyer

Two typically hard fighting Usk wild fish. Great evening, a bit moving & a good hatch. (Sedge)
21 Aug 1 Dunn

Alexander Schikaneder

Returned
19 Aug 5 Griffiths Knat & Klinkhammer

Kieth Saunders

Taking Emergers in the film.
16 Aug 6 CDC Sedge

Kevin O'Brian
15 Aug 7 Gold Head

Kevin O'Brain and Jimmy Devoy

Hot & Sunny
14 Aug 1 Gold Head & GRHE

R.Jones

Hot & sunny
9 Aug 4 Greenwell spinner & CDC Emerger

Jimmy Devoy and Logan Anderson

2 each
5 Aug 2 Black Pennel & BP Spider

Andrew Smith

Hot & overcast with a warm wind
4 Aug 4 PT Nymph & Ginger Quill

David Hall

1 kept 3 returned.
22 July 3 Klinkhammer & GRHE

Mike Jeffreys

Sunny & warm
22 July 7 Ginger Quill

Tony Bostock

Two fish around 1lbs
21 July 10 Red Spinner & Olive Quill

Tony Bostock

Bright & Showery, river low
21 July 11 GRHE & Sedge

A. Madrell & Jimmy Devoy

Showery and bright.
18 July 4 Calde Canard

A. Madrell

Warm evening at Llandetty
19 July 1 GRHE

P.Gray

Warm and overcast with showers
13 July 5 Gold head & CD emerger

Ian Jones & Jimmy Devoy

Sunny & Hot
11 July 4 Dry Gold Head

N.Bowkett & Jimmy

Cold night again
10 July 1 gold head

N.Bowkett

Cold night
6 July 2  

William Birts

Overcast
5 July 5 Jimmy special

William & Peter Birts

Under the direction of Jimmy
4 July 1 Gold Head

Jason Clark

Best fish on Gliffaes Water, 1st fish on 1st day on new rod bought as a gift by Mimi
4 July 1 Olive Wulff

John Hathaway

Excellent sport, lost two others.
3 July 4 trout & 2 parr Olive Nymph

James Wynne

Overcast
29 June 2 Gold Head

Paul Gardiner

Bright, first time trout fishing, excellent
29 June 2 Gold Head

Kyri Efthymiou

Bright, fantastic fishing
28 June 1 Purple Nymph

Kyri Efthymiou

Still evening, great fight
29 June 4 CDC Emerger, Greywulff

A. Milligan

Bright with an upstream breeze
28 June 3 Deer Hair Addis

A.Milligan

Still bright evening, fine fish.
29 June 5 Gold Head, Purple Nymph

Dave Maclean

Excellent days fishing
28 June 2 Gold Head, Purple Nymph

Dave Maclean

Bright, caught around 10.30am
27 June 3 Gold Head & Green Nymph

Dave Maclean

First ever trout
29 June 6 Gold Head, Grey Nymph

Dan King

Excellent sport
28 June 2 Green Nymph

Dan King

Good fight
27 June 2 Grey Nymph

Dan King

Bright, very slow water
27 June 3 Tupps

All returned, caught between 0645 - 0745.
26 June 4 Parachute Adams, Wooly Bugger

M.Harnek

Overcast
26 June 8 Sparkler Pupa

P.McPherson
25 June 13 Sparkler Pupa, Wrights Royal

P.McPherson, Harker, Newnam

Good fishing and fish bigger than expected.
24 June 10 Gold Head, Pheasant Tail Nymphs

P.McPherson & D.Newman

Good day but hard wading
23 June 18 Gold Head, GRHE,

S.Kennedy & A.Simarasm

Excellent day thanks to Jimmy
22 June 6 Tupps

Nick & Peta Brabner & Amelia Fawcett

warm sunny evening
20 June 2 Hares Ear

Rupert Fitzmaurice

Clear, btight & sunny - above the salmon pool
17 June 2 Olive Wulf, Yellow Spinner

Randy Lie

Caught at 7pm.
16 June 3 Yellow Spinner

Randy Lie

Beautiful warm clear evening.
15 June 5 Gold Head, GRHE, Greenwells

Toby Frears

Five taken before breakfast - what a perfect start to the day.

14 June 1 Greenwells Glory

Toby Frears

Hot & sunny midday
10 June 6 GRHE, Coch-y-Bonddu

Paul Stevens
11 June 10 Greeenwells, GRHE, PTN, Montanna

Rupert Banks

Excellent start. There I was deep wading third arch out, size 22....
10 June 6 Green Olive, Black Buzzer

Rupert Banks

No rises at all, broken by several fish.
8 June 10 GRHE, Gold Head

Andrew Popplevel, Iain James & Jimmy Devoy
7 June 7 GRHE, Gold Head, Pale Olive

Andrew Popplevel, Iain James & Jimmy Devoy

Sunny & overcast at times
6 June 11 Pheasant Tail, Cow Dung wet?

Robert & Celia Mills

Lovely day, seven fish returned
4 June 5 Pheasant Tail, Montanna

Matt Sumpter

Fantastic fishing, fighting fish
30 May (pm) 2 Gold Head, Olive Sedge

David Venton

Thanks to Jimmy's great knowledge. All fish returned.
30 May(am) 1 Pheasant Tail

David Venton

Misty, beautiful early morning, lots of wildlife and a joy to the soul.
30 May 1 Orange Bitts

Malcolm Leonard

Sunny, middle beat.
29 May 1 Dawl Bach

Malcolm Leonard

Good size of of over 2.5 lbs. Had him for dinner
29 May 2 GRHE

Francis Davey

Very Sunny
28 May 2 Gold Head, GRHE

John Stephens & Jimmy Devoy

Both fish caught on the same line, same leader at the same time.
28 May 4 Goldhead

Justin Clayton-Jones

Good rise between 12-1, all fish returned.
27 May 1 Wykhams Fancy

Duncan MacLaren

Overcast & breezy, Greendrive.
26 May 4 Olive & Goldhead

Andrew Litchfield

Bright morning & overcast evening.
25 May 4 Olive Dry

Jeremy Gordon

Few rising fish, a number missed, biggest one & quarter lbs.
24 May 4 Black Spider, GRHE

John Leigh-Swinton

Cool & Breezy
24 May 1 salmon lost  

Stephen Marsh-Smith
24 May 4 Mayfly Nymph

Robert Mulholland

A few rising fish.
24 May 7 trout & a 17lbs Salmon Ali Shrimp

Andrew Cracknell

An excellent day with Jimmy Devoy
22 May 4 Beaded nymphs

Veronica Gibbs and Jimmy Devoy

Cold, wet and windy. Saw a salmon, where we caught yesterdays.
21 May 2 salmon (10lbs & 14lbs) Ali shrimp

Veronica Gibbs

My first ever salmon, very wet and srtong winds.
15 May 12 Olive Dun

Tony Bostock

Lost another seven, great afternoon, shame about the weather.
14 May 4 Olive Dun

Tony Bostock

Water in super condition, good number of fish on the move. Lost & missed quite a number.
13 May 6 GRHE & Usk Nailer & Dry Olive

Jimmy Devoy

Bright & windy
13 May 3 GRHE & Usk Nailer

D. Watson

An excellent day. One fish up to 2lbs.
11 May 4 Dry Olive Quill

Gregg

Hard work and only spasmodic rises.
10 May 3 Olive Nymph

Gregg

Missed a lot - no steady rise.
10 May 4 Nymphs & wet flies

Heron

Had to fish to 8.15pm to finaly break the 1lbs mark... well worth the wait. Strong & healthy trout. Mink ran between my legs at the falls. Lovely water to fish
9 May 1 Peter Ross

K. Pittny

Very few rising fish caught on sinking line.
6/7 May 4 Nymphs

Chris Bryant

Difficult fishing up on the Green Drive
7 May 2 Olive

Richard Waller
7 May 4 Olive Dry

Nick Corley

All fish between 10"-11"
7 May 4 P.T. Nymph

Dave Horner

Fish rising at Llandetty over lunch time.
5 May 9 Mymphs & Dry

Stephen Kennedy, Micheal Nolan, William Ardell and Jimmy Devoy.
4 May 6 Nymphs

Stephen Kennedy, Micheal Nolan and Jimmy Devoy.

Two fish kept. Sunny morning, overcast afternoon.
4 May 4 Jimmy's Olive & Iron Blue

Graham & Fiona Taylor

All returned, one fish was around 2.5lbs.
4 May 1 Hare's Ear Nymph

Scott Matlock

Lost another two.
20 Apr 2 Para Adams & CDC Olive#14

Neil & Harry Lloyd

Sporadic rise of Olives and Match Browns. Two good fish on dry fly. One over 2lbs. Harry lost about 15.
19 Apr 1 GRHE nymph

Harry Lloyd-Gardner (11)

Also lost anothe fish of about 1lbs
15 Apr 4 GRHE

David Mee

Small fish rising here and there, very pleasant but where are the larger fish.
14 Apr 2 Hare's Ear

Valentine Flynn

Warm, sunny & Windy
11 Apr 1 Nymph

Cold and bright- few rising.
8 Apr 5 Black Buzzer

W.Pershore

Very good day, some fly life on the surface.
8 Apr 1 Hare's ear

Tony Emery

Very few fish showing.
6 Apr 4 PT Nymph, Kites Comparadun

Niel Gibbs

Few fish moving, PT nymph in slower deeper runs worked.
5 Apr 2 Hare's ear

Tony & Paula Emery

Great fun and thanks to Jimmy.
5 Apr 2 Red Klinkhammer

Hatch very early, stopped at 11.30am. Very little happened after that.
23 Mar 4 Dark Cahill #14

Stuart Cox

Hatch between 12-2, few fish rising but persuadable. All returned.

22 Mar 3 Grey Wolf

Chris Lee

Great morning hatch and rising fish disappear after 11am.
21 Mar 1 Greenwell's Spider

Micheal Phillips

Wonderful day, quite a good hatch, fish responded quickly, managed to raise four fish to a kite's imperial.
17 Mar 2 Easy Rider Dun

Nick Hancock

Wonderful Day - good hatch at 1.30pm
17 Mar 1 Easy Rider Dun

Jon Beer

Good hatch of olives without a vast rise of fish. This one was feeding steadily. Found a large stonefly - in March?
16 Mar   Olive Nymph

Michelle Hooper

Nil return, but learnt to roll cast, great want another go now.
15 Mar 1 GRHE

Derek Rippengal

No hatch until 2pm- Dark Olives
14 Mar 1 Pheasant tail Nymph

Derek Rippengal

Sunny but cold east wind


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