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The water had cleared this morning but was still a strong black tea colour. Sporadic rises gave us something to aim at and we soon caught a couple of brown trout to 1lb on Klinkhamer flies. It then went very quiet with little fly life coming off the water so we brewed up and had lunch. We roamed through the downstream section of the beat but apart from tiny fish taking the wet fly, we landed nothing worth noting until the sun started to drop. We headed to the lower and slower part of the beat for the last session and caught trout, grayling and chub up to the 1lb mark on dry flies. The water felt cold and it was not easy fishing but we enjoyed the day immensely in spite of our meagre catches.

4 Trout, 2 Grayling, 1 Chub

2 Trout

Very, very low water.

2 Trout, 6 Grayling

Very hot conditions and very low water made for difficult fishing. Managed a very small trout in some riffled sections with a small gold head ptn then another smaller one later with a small elk hair caddis.

2 Trout

3 Juveniles and one “proper” wbt. River like gin and extremely low!

4 Trout

1 small trout. The water level was very low; it was interesting to see the 'skeleton' of the river. Quite a bit of surface activity but I wasn't good enough to catch more!

1 Trout

Good day out on lovely beat, unfortunately left my nymphs at home so was using dries a for the 4 hours on the river .(limited time as. The wife was at Wonderwool in Builth. Small hatches around lunch after many changes of flies missed to good takes on a para adams size 16. River was very clear and low.

Nothing caught, tried dry fly and nymphing. Seems river has very low concentration of fish.
The river appears to have layer of silt on the bottom from farm run off which may be affecting quality of fishing. We also found 3 decent sized dead brown trout, may have been otter but were uneaten.

Nothing caught, 2 bites whilst nymphing

1 grayling caught by accident. 2 bites on dry fly but nothing else

1 Grayling