The River Marlais runs by the garden of Annabel and Stephen Thomas’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.

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’.

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.’

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.