Does anybody have any information regarding fishing the upper reaches of the River Dee in North Wales. What I am really searching for are day ticket stretches of the river where trotting is allowed using maggots, this is after the close season for trout.

I believe that a current EA by-law restricts the use of maggots to below the Horseshoe Falls at Llangollen. Most clubs permit trotting for grayling so whether or not you can do this with maggots depends on which side of the Horseshoe Falls you are fishing and if you want to fish the upper reaches then maggots will not be an option.

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“There is no more lovely country than Monmouthshire in early spring. Nowhere do the larks sing quite so passionately, as if somehow inspired by the Welsh themselves. There is a blackbird on every thorn and a cock chaffinch, a twink as they call him there, on every bush...... It moved me profoundly. I had been spared to see another spring, and I thank God for it.”

Oliver Kite
“A Spring Day on the Usk”
A Fisherman’s Diary

Sewinbasher's post confirmed by the latest EA guide to the bye laws (see pages 10 & 11).
BTW - the use of maggots below Berwyn does not extend to the Ceiriog tributary:

http://publications.environment-agen...10BSGO-e-e.pdf

I wouldn't loose feed/groundbait either.

Does anyone know why maggots are banned?????

I believe that on most rivers where maggots are banned it is in the name or protecting salmon and sea trout parr.

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“There is no more lovely country than Monmouthshire in early spring. Nowhere do the larks sing quite so passionately, as if somehow inspired by the Welsh themselves. There is a blackbird on every thorn and a cock chaffinch, a twink as they call him there, on every bush...... It moved me profoundly. I had been spared to see another spring, and I thank God for it.”

Oliver Kite
“A Spring Day on the Usk”
A Fisherman’s Diary