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Remembering some cautionary words from the Booking Office about tricky wading and the likelihood of ending up with a wet arm or worse on Fenni Fach, I tackled this beat with sleeves well rolled up and full knee and shin pads from Frank at Guide’s Choice Flyfishing Tackle (no commercial connection, just a very happy customer).
By getting right down and crawling stealthily (and safely!) across the bedrock shelves in the middle of this beat, I was able to creep up on the trout with dries and a Lucas-style presentation leader. I blew a couple of chances on good fish - including one where I hooked up briefly and then got the long rod tip stuck in an overhanging tree - but I was pretty happy with 7 trout to about 12 inches. And now I know where the really big ones live…

7 Trout

2 Trout

Low water, nil caught.

Another enjoyable day, albeit a blank. The river level was reasonable for this time of year and some activity with respect to rises in the evening.

1 small trout released.

1 Trout

Caught 2 trout and lost another after the sun went down. March brown dry fly for the 2 landed and safely returned. One fish just under a lb the other just over.

2 Trout

4 trout 1/2 - 3/4 lb all on nymph. Fished to 9.30pm, no real rise. Big fish in pools top end of beat. A pleasure to fish.

4 Trout

River was very clear but plenty of flow. A few fish rising throughout the afternoon/evening but no real rise late on. 2 fish (best 1lb) were taken on the dry with the other 2 on deeply sunk nymphs. River bed made wading difficult but no more than lots of other WUF waters - wading sticks are ESSENTIAL. A long beat with plenty of opportunities for different styles of fishing.

4 Trout

Fished through morning and afternoon. No fish rising, hence nymph only. No fish seen or caught.

Perfect conditions for dry fly fishing and a very agreeable beat to fish from. As you would expect at this time of the season, there were plenty of rises for mating and egg laying flies as well as hatching nymphs.
I landed 2 Brown Trout in quick succession from around Highwell, my first point of call: 1 cock fish, 10 inches (1/2lb) 1 hen fish 14 inches (1lb).
My only disappointment was that I hit the bag limit before having a chance to enjoy other reaches of this beat!
I would definitely revisit Fenni Fach in the future.

WUF note: The 2 fish limit means only 2 fish can be kept not the total number of fish that can be caught, all other fish caught must be released.

2 Trout