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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
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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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