From Pen y Fan through Merthyr, Pontypridd, and Cardiff to the Bay — the Taff is the great urban recovery story of the South Wales coalfield. Within living memory the river was effectively dead through Cardiff; today wild brown trout and grayling hold through the city centre, and sewin and salmon work back up on the autumn lifts. Not a remote wilderness fishery — an urban river of much more interest than it has any right to be. Atlantic salmon are under serious conservation pressure — Natural Resources Wales mandates catch-and-release for salmon on all rivers, so all fish must be returned.
Sea trout here
Summer-autumn runs (June–September), primarily nocturnal
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