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Two Small trout caught with Orange & Partridge spider.

2 Trout

River high and coloured after heavy rain. Considerable debris, leaves and tree branches, coming downstream. Extremely difficult access with high himalyan balsam preventing upstream movement. I fished with weighted nymph and did manage to find some good water on beat 2. No rising fish. Blank return.

Fished from 7am until 10am.Conditions difficult due to cold air temperature. (7 degrees) and then brightness when the sun warmed things up. Some good sedge hat he's as things warmed. Should have switched to a nymph rather than dry fly. This is a wonderful stretch to fish though and I shall be back next season.

Spent a lovely morning fishing dry fly - one nice brown trout and turned plenty of smaler fish on a Grey Duster. Great water, can't wait to get back and fish again.

1 Trout

Salmon parr and small trout caught on dry flies. Hard fishing, very little back cast.

1 Trout, 1 Other

2 Trout

One trout of 12oz, returned. Fought hard for an hour and 35 minutes before I overcame it with the help of local farm hands and a tractor.

1 Trout

Spent a morning fishing the Eastern Cleddau at Llawharden. The fishing is challenging in the best sense. Had a great time scrambling in and out of the water, made plentiful use of the wading staff and barely made a conventional overhead cast. Fished a duo with the dry fly as indicator and a bead head nymph underneath. All fish came to the nymph. As well as the 4 half pounders that came to hand, I lost 3 others so it was never dull. If, like me, you enjoy working out how you are going to get your flies into position when casting is difficult, then you will enjoy this stretch. I went home having had a great morning. Will definitely be back. PS all fish were returned.

4 Trout

Fished the eastern Cleddau beat, no fish caught or seen. Water was very low. Although nothing was caught the surroundings are beautiful and worth the trip.

After a gap of some thirty years, I returned to my childhood river - the Western Cleddau - where I learnt to fly fish with a bamboo rod (which - even in the 80s - was an antique). I was worried that years of careless slurry poisonings had cleared the river of trout, but I was pleased to see several small fish rising, and darting away at my clumsy approach.

The water was low and surprisingly very clear. In some stretches with the Ranunculus flowering, it could have been a chalk stream. The banks were more tree-lined and overgrown than I remember . If you don't have waders, it would be hard to land a fly on the water.

It was after sunset before I managed to connect with a fish. A 6-7 inch brown trout took my size 20 Parachute Adams. I was so pleased with this fish, out of all proportion to its size. Can't wait to go back.

1 Trout