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The day had a questionable start when I noticed my buddy's new 11ft, 3wt nymphing rod with a fancy green butt end stop. Hmmm, I thought, that's two extra feet of reach (one rod and one line) over my 10ft rather shabby piece of equipment. But I reassured myself - size doesn't matter, or so they say. The day was overcast and the river in good condition so I looked forward to good days euro-nymphing. He has always been, and probably always will be, a better river angler than me but by the end of the day we had 11 fish to the net and only one of them was mine! Of course, I blame the rod! Was my humiliation complete? Oh no. A wading misfortune left me not quite feet up and head down, but very close. Oh the indignity!
On a more serious note for the WUF administrators - I started my fishing at the downstream limit of the beat. The map shows that the beat finishes at a stream inlet on one bank and a canal overflow further downstream on the other. I entered the water within the Dinas beat, waded to the middle of the river and fished the opposite bank from the canal overflow upstream. After a short while I was challenged by another fisherman and told I was fishing his beat - the next one down stream from Dinas. I didn't want to argue with a fellow angler so I left the water and showed him the map. We parted on good terms wishing each other 'tight lines' . I resumed fishing upstream and he fished his beat. I promised him that I would raise this with WUF to ensure the accuracy of the map, which I now do. That said, would you advise me whether in similar circumstances, where the fishing rights associated with a beat end in a staggered way, is an angler entitled to wade to the limit of the beat and fish towards the bank indicated on your map which offers the longest option from the middle of the river?

Fishing Passport Note : Fishing more than half way across the river (at single bank fisheries or where staggered) does happen, but it is usually an agreement that fishery owners have between themselves and a certain amount of etiquette normally applies whereas anglers will not fish across if the opposite bank is occupied. Technically, however, it is illegal to fish more than half way.

9 Trout, 2 Grayling

3 Trout

Had a brilliant days fishing with the best succes I've ever had on a nymph( I used a small beaded nymph with purple body) - 9 hooked and 4 landed (but returned). All wild brown tout, the largest 1lb and the rest half pound. All the fish were caught in the channel above the rocky island on the East Side of the flyover.

The lady in the office who I called was extremely helpful in chosing a beat near where we were staying in Glasbury so many thanks to her.

4 Trout

Two of us worked quite hard, fishing from 2.30 to 9.30pm. Five trout, only one of which was over 1lb. But nice to be back at Dinas, and to see that changes to the river since last year.

5 Trout

On the evening ticket - river a bit high and some colour but a few fish rising here and there and got all fish on dries

5 Trout

Fished between 5.30pm and dusk. Very windy but warm and river running clear at a good level. Caught 3 WBT on spiders in the slower runs and 1 WBT on small cdc olive in tail of pool. Fish started rising just before dusk. Missed and lost a few. Fish between 10”and 14” and all safely returned.

4 Trout

3 hooked and lost in a 2hr twilight session. Only fished the lower downstream portion of the beat, below the main pool that underlies the bridge. Plenty of nice setups. Wish I had longer to fish the whole beat :). Nymph (copper John) under dry (Caddis), all hooked on the nymph.

1 Trout

Good sized fish, 14-16 inches
Caught on a large #8 Mrs Simpson

Missed three others on same fly.

1 Trout

4 Trout