Low and clear — careful approach country. Take your time — read the water before you cast.
Live readings — water temperature is an estimate where the gauge does not record it.
Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
Small Vale-of-Glamorgan river through Llantrisant and the western Cardiff suburbs to the Bay. Brown trout in the upper and middle reaches; sewin work up on the autumn lifts but in genuinely modest numbers. The Ely is the smallest of the three Cardiff-area rivers and the least known to fly anglers — an honest urban-recovery fishery rather than a destination.
Sea trout: Variable seasonal (2026) — Small urban river; sewin work up on autumn lifts in very modest numbers. The Ely is the smallest of the three Cardiff-area rivers and the least established as a migratory fishery. All-Wales At Risk picture applies.
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Small Vale-of-Glamorgan river through Llantrisant and the western Cardiff suburbs to the Bay.
Low and clear — careful approach country. Take your time — read the water before you cast.
Live readings — water temperature is an estimate where the gauge does not record it.
Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
Small Vale-of-Glamorgan river through Llantrisant and the western Cardiff suburbs to the Bay. Brown trout in the upper and middle reaches; sewin work up on the autumn lifts but in genuinely modest numbers. The Ely is the smallest of the three Cardiff-area rivers and the least known to fly anglers — an honest urban-recovery fishery rather than a destination.
Sea trout: Variable seasonal (2026) — Small urban river; sewin work up on autumn lifts in very modest numbers. The Ely is the smallest of the three Cardiff-area rivers and the least established as a migratory fishery. All-Wales At Risk picture applies.