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A warm and sunny day. I only fished in the afternoon. Not much activity, managed to catch one brown trout on wer fly. Lots of willow blossoms on the water made fishing difficult.

1 Trout

Nice, sunny evening with trout rising in the flat water. Couldn't interest them, thought. But I did get three in running water on nymphs, including two at nearly 2lb.

3 Trout

5 Trout

Whilst there appeared to be a fairly large number of flies hatching, and on the surface of the river, few fish were rising to them. i noted one fairly large salmon leaping out of the water - probably 6lb+ - and a couple of decent size trout, but otherwise, not much at al. Enjoyable day nevertheless.

Nymph

1 Trout

1 Trout

1 Trout

2 Trout

None taken. Catch and release. Trickle hatch of olives, fish feeding well. Excellent conditions

4 Trout

My first time at Dan Y Parc - a long beat with some great flats dry fly water. Late May, still, warm - should be perfect conditions? It was a bit sunny but after 7pm this mattered less. So yes, it felt like the fishing gods had decreed today would be a good day. But it was not to be . Fish were rising and in range. But I just couldn't work out what they were taking. Parachute Adams, olive emergers, sedges, olive dries, mayflies. All ignored. The very still air did mean the surface of the (low) river was glass-like and very unforgiving of flylines and leaders. Never felt so humbled. But it felt good to be on the bank of a great beat and pitting my wits against rising trout. Turns out they had the wits...