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Low water meant that we abandoned fishing for salmon and fished for trout. We raised a couple of good fish, but none were brought to the net.

River coloured, soon cleared. Grayling and 2 trout around pound and a quarter, all taken on the french leader. Few fish rising to olives, thanks to Richard for a lovely days fishing

9 Trout, 1 Grayling

Great day

4 Trout, 1 Grayling

Spent the morning upstream of Llanwrthwl Bridge and caught two Grayling best about 12 inches to a black klink, despite some hatches there were no fish rising and saw no trout in the clear water. Downstream of the bridge in the afternoon and in very bright sunshine and with a small but continuous hatch I saw no fish rising nor caught any.
As an aside a few days before I fished the RRA waters around Rhayader and again saw no evidence of any trout indeed I walked the banks downstream of Dernol with my polaroids on to see if I could spot any fish but the river appeared barren. Worrying?

2 Grayling

Just fished the morning, river clear, flowing well. One OOS small brown trout and three glayling the best being a beautiful fish to about 1lb caught on a dry Adams Parachute ... perfect. All returned and swam off strongly :-)

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

3 grayling, pound to a pound and a half. Taken on weighted Hares Ears. Excellent service from WUF.

3 Grayling

First time salmon fishing enjoyed the day, but nothing showed, not sure if I was doing it right to be honest.

Interesting and varied beat. Just not my day

First time at Golgau, I found having to park across and blocking the gate a bit odd but once I'd double checked and was happy I wasn't blocking the wrong gate I was happy to leave my car there as there didn't seem to be anywhere else to park.
The weather was chilly to start, dry and overcast and the grass very wet with dew, for the first time this year it almost felt autumnal, the day got much warmer but stayed overcast.
The river looked to be up by probably almost a foot and was the colour of tea (without milk!) and was really pushing through. I'd read others say that wading was difficult and they weren't kiddin'! With the river fast, coloured and with no sun to illuminate the river bed and large slippery boulders everywhere I found this the toughest wading I've done.
Not really knowing how to tackle the river I tried the heaviest gold heads I've got but failed to catch, however a hatch of needle flies and/or small stone flies had one or two small fish rising in the margins out of the flow, before I spotted a larger fish rising at the tail of one of the pools. After much frustration trying to wade into position and having to retie countless tippets due to there always being a tree or wall behind me I managed to take a nice grayling on a size 18 dry fly of my own, I then spotted another fish just up stream which took my fly at the first time of asking, however I was so surprised I missed it...and then another straight after! This was the last of the excitement for the day and I was quite relieved to have stayed upright all day.
This is a lovely stretch of water and I'd imagine a great salmon fishery but I found it difficult going for trout and grayling today.

1 Trout