ABERAERON TOWN ANGLING CLUB
THE RIVER AERON’S ONLY ANGLING CLUB
RIVER REPORT
River updates 2024
16 August 2024
11 June 2024
Fishing activity has been low with no visible runs of fish to date. Water
levels are normal but there has not been a flood on the river for some weeks. There
was a slight rise in water level and colour yesterday which may have brought some
fish in overnight. The next few days will tell but fish should arrive any day now.
There was a report of two small sewin having been caught at Llyswen pool a couple
of weeks ago.
22 May 2024
It’s been a slow start to the season with no verified reports of sewin
having been seen or caught so far. The water levels have been good on account of
the wet spring weather and this looks set to continue. Fish are being seen in the
bay so it is now up to them. I did venture out this week with the fly rod and fished
the town pools - I did not get a sewin but I did manage a decent enough brown trout
which, for the Aeron, is a specimen sized fish.
It’s been a relatively slow season so far. The fish didn’t come when expected; there have been many theories put forward from the cold spring to the harbour works affecting fish passage through noise and vibration though the overall picture in the whole of west Wales is one of a declining number of fish with all rivers reporting similar findings. Who knows for sure but we would ordinarily expect runs in June and into July but they didn’t come, even when we had the rain. Despite this, fish are now moving through and several anglers, who are putting the time in, are getting rewards on the fly at night, primarily on the town pools beat. Rhodri Davies has had 19 so far this season and Mike Lench has been getting a couple of fish per visit too, as have others. The fish are not large but we are now into August and the smaller fish are what we would expect at this time of year. We can only hope that things will now go well for the remainder of the season and that some bigger fish appear in catches at some point.
