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Club
Game Fishing Information.
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The Club offers a variety of Game Fishing with Grayling,
Brown Trout, Sea Trout and Salmon Fishing all available.
There are 3 main Rivers providing great game fishing from
good sized Grayling to 25lb Salmon.
River Taff, (M4 to Canton Bridge)
River Usk, (Chainbridge)
River Wye, (Monmouth Stretch)
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Please Note:
Game Season applies to EA byelaws.
The Club Game Licence allows members to spin and flyfish
for migratory Salmon and Sea Trout.
2 fish may be taken daily subject to EA byelaws.
Game fishing day tickets for Biblins are available from :
Garry Evans Tackle Shop,
105 Whitchurch Road,
Cardiff.
(Day ticket price to be confirmed.) |
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Grayling
Trotting on the Taff.
By Aaron
Rushton.
You watch your float drift away from you
downstream, the flow tugging at your line, you hold your float
back against the current. A flash of silver as your float dips
down, a small fighting silver dart of a grayling brings itself
towards your waiting hands. Trotting (float fishing on rivers)
is one of the most fun types of fishing plus the club has one of
the best rivers to do it on. Of course I’m talking about the
River Taff, with its creases, ripples and fast flowing water,
it’s an ideal trotting river.
Trotting for grayling is a perfect type of
fishing to start the little ones on as it is inexpensive,
incredibly fun and doesn't need alot of patience. All you need
is a long float rod of 9 to 13ft, a couple of stick floats,
rubbers and some size 16 hooks. I never use waggler floats on
river because in my opinion they are uncontrollable and
impossible to present the bait correctly. With stick floats you
can control the float all the time and present the bait
naturally.
To actually do trotting for Grayling simply cast the float just
above a likely spot and watch the float go down the river by
constantly playing out line and occasionally hold the float back
by putting your forefinger on the rim of your fixed spool or
centerpin. I suppose I have to give away a few of my favourite
spots… anywhere 70ft down from Radyr Weir is good as well as
the waters around Bute.
A selection of River Floats.
Grayling are not the only species you can catch on the
trot, small Chub and Dace can be caught too. The best time of
the year to catch Grayling is from the start of autumn to just
after Christmas.
Please don't fish for Grayling during the summer as they are
spawning and are very weary.
Enjoy fishing for Grayling as much as I do
all the time and have fun.
Aaron Rushton. |
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Aaron
on the Taff.
January 2008.
Eleven year old Club Member
Aaron Rushton explains why his favorite place is close to
home.
Watch
Aaron on the Taff - A film by Chris Rushton.
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Aaron Rushton.
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"It's not Florida, Spain or
Disneyland. Nope, my favorite place in the world is the
River Taff. |
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Sure, it's not the most attractive river
in the world. With the trees littered with plastic bags,
and everything from trolleys to mattresses in the river,
but the changes it's made over the years are dramatic.
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lesson on the Taff. From the early to the middle 1900s,
the Taff ran jet black with pollution from the coal mines
and there was hardly any life in it. The little life that
was in it was struggling to survive.
In the late 1900s the Environment Agency did a massive
project to clean up the Taff and reintroduced salmon,
brown trout, grayling, sea trout and many other coarse
fish species such as barbel, chub, roach, dace and
minnows. This made a huge boom in fishing and wildlife.
Practically every time I go to the river around Cardiff
I see herons, kingfishers, and dippers. There are even
rumours of otters moving in to cash in on the abundance of
fish.
But wherever there are friends there are always foes.
Predatory mink (escaped from fur farms) and cormorants can
make a massive dent in the fish populations.
However, theirs is just a tiny dent compared to the
biggest biddies of them all. Yes the most destructive
species to the Taff is (drum roll please) - US!
Some people poach the waters clean of fish and many
more pollute the water of the Taff with rubbish and waste.
There's still a lot we can do to improve the river. If
people could simply stop dumping rubbish in the Taff and
its tributaries it would make a tremendous difference - so
act now!" |
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Game
Fishing on the River Taff, Summer 2007.
by Junior member, Aaron Rushton.
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Fly
fishing on the River Taff: A glorious experience.
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Try
a spot of spinning for salmon when the river’s in
flood.
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Fly
fishing on the river Taff has had its ups and downs this
year, with the floods giving poor fishing. But September
brought welcome relief.
It started off in April with a few 1lb+ trout being caught
here and there and even a couple of salmon on flying
C’s. Most of the trout were being caught on
Klinkanhammers or May fly patterns such as Greenwells
Glory.
As May came round quite a lot of salmon were being caught
on a floating line with small flies like Blue Charm and
Stoats Tail and for the trout, the May Flies were booming
with huge hatches happening on the slower stretches near
the bridge at the Millennium Stadium.
As for June, there were a lot of trout bellow
Blackweir and also the sedges were coming in - the salmon
were a bit dim and not many were being caught. July came
and so did the floods and the trout fishing was rubbish
although as the rain washed all the dirt down into the
estuary this was a signal to all the salmon to go up the
river and it was heaven for salmon fisherman.
August
was here, and there was still a bit of flood left in the
river and salmon were still at large also when the trout
are a bit dormant, as they were this August, it can be a
good time to try fly fishing for chub, yep you heard me
right, I myself had great fun catching ˝ lb chub on a
little olive Mayfly.
September on the Taff seemed to be the month for grayling
with tons of them being pulled out by very irritated trout
anglers fishing wet flies and Radyr cricket club seemed to
be a hot spot for big grayling anglers although late
September showed a bit of flood. My last fish of the
season was a very hard-fighting 2 ˝lb grayling caught on
a home tied fly next to the Mochyn du pub.
This
has been a review of game fishing done for Glamorgan
Anglers club in summer, 2007
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Grayling
can be caught on the Taff….
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……and
so can trout!
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TIGHT
LINES FOR NEXT SUMMER!
The
author of this review with his prize fish
From the Taff- yes it’s a rainbow!
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