The River Marlais runs by the garden of Paul Bennett and Melissa Hurley’s 16th-century country house in a village on the edge of Brechfa Forest.

The River Irfon, known for its grayling and wild brown trout, flows though the wooded grounds of Jean-Pierre Mifsud’s fishing lodge, in its rush to join the River Wye. As well as seven miles of riverbank there is a well-stocked trout lake. Tuition and tackle available.

‘In a lovely location’, Sarah Hudson’s restored coaching inn on the banks of the River Monnow continues to delight readers.

Tal-y-llyn lake, stocked with brown trout to supplement wild fish, is almost on the back doorstep of this Snowdonia farmhouse B&B. Alternatively, you can take a short drive to fish for grayling on the Dee, or perhaps go for a spot of fly-fishing off the coast, with your sights on bass, mullet and mackerel.

‘This a place to which we would happily return,’ write trusted (and exacting) readers, after a visit to David and Beverley Harrison-Wood’s 19th-century mansion turned eco-friendly guest house.

‘We and four other regulars, staying for the Brecon Baroque Music Festival, consider this the best accommodation in the town; we book from year to year.’

In the Cambrian mountains, set back from the A483, this red brick former Victorian vicarage-turned-B&B has been praised for its ‘atmosphere of heart-warming hospitality’.

With ‘an unexpected wow factor', ‘genuinely kind’ Fiona and Caron Jones have given their modern house a ‘glossy luxury’ touch – all elegant granite, marble and honey-coloured wood.

With easy access to the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path and the beach, Julia and Stuart Adams’s tranquil ranch-style B&B nestles in a forested valley, on the edge of the National Trust’s Colby Woodland Garden.