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River really low and initially chilly but lovely sunny day. Fished late morning and through afternoon. Mostly fished a leggy soft hackle upwing dry size 14 and a smaller light olive bodied bushy f-fly type thing on a 3 weight and skinny tippet. Copper head nymph at close range sorted out couple of 14" fish. Only fished bottom of beat in unhurried fashion. No pools to speak of with the water so low, so stealth needed, was bit like chalk stream fishing today. Fish switched off a bit as day progressed to be replaced by tiny salmon par that attacked anything. You don't want more than 7' rod here really. Picnic tables abound, take the hamper.....

20 Trout

Did I say this was my favourite beat on the WUF? A hugely enjoyable end of season day on Hergest. Fished up to falls and beyond to the beat top proper. The large haul of fish was helped on by catching 4 or 5 fish from each of 3 larger/deeper pools which I fished very carefully from the tail. The coloured water helped as in clear conditions the fish spook easily on the Edw. I fished dry on a 3WT with a wide selection including Adams (without the Para bit), Duns and Olives. I didn't note which was most successful - sorry!

26 Trout

River in good shape after recent rain. Quite coloured but on balance that does give the angler much needed cover on small streams. Felt the conditions were excellent but very little fly life and precious few rising fish.
However, casting a dry to likely spots resulted in 12 wbt, 6 big 'uns and 6 little 'uns. Best was 13" and all plump well conditioned fish.
For me, two points of interest. I am a para Adams addict, so promised myself on the M4 I would not fish this pattern today and tried many long forgotten flies in my box. What I observed was that of the 6 flies I used (elk wing olive, grannom, f-fly, bwo, olive klinkhammer and iron blue dun) they all seemed to work equally well. All flies were 14's so maybe this was the trigger. But I increasingly think on small wild streams the residents are opportunistic and if it's in their feeding zone they'll have a go.
The other point was the laziness of the take of the bigger fish. I'm used to my fly being smashed most of the year. But every large fish I hooked today was done in a slow, leisurely manner. Then of course all hell broke loose!
Sorry this has been a bit of a ramble but far too often I fish at 100 mph doing the same thing as I did last time, and the time before and the time before that.......

12 Trout

Delayed start due to over indulgent hosts the previous evening so only managed 2-3 hours on this delightful stream. Caught two very lively trout up to 9" on a pheasant tail gold head and missed a few others rising to a klinkhammer.

2 Trout

River in good condition had some takes but no fish caught. At the top section above the falls I was asked by a couple who claimed the leftbank rights for sight of the map showing the extent of the rightbank fishing which I provided.

All fish were rising and were taken on on an iron blue klink,

4 Trout

River slightly coloured, and had clearly fined down after something of a rise. Certainly freshened the trout up! After a slowish start trying various dries I found trout in virtually every run and glide willing to come up to a small sparse iron blue para., although I think anything light grey would have worked. Eventually landed 20 at 6" to 12", and missed many more - in the sun my tippet was sometimes very obvious. Had to leave at 5.30 having only fished about two thirds of the beat, so could have caught many more. Fantastic day!

20 Trout

First time fishing the Edw,lovely river and a great place to fish. Water level appeared to be low also a lot of brown algae on the bottom. 10 fish caught and quite a few more missed. 5 on a size 16 para adams and 5 on a size 18 beaded PT under an indicator, all in the faster water.
Excellent direction to the beat and parking.

10 Trout

The river in good condition on overcast day. well maintained access points. only fished half of the beat caught 9 wbt on size 16 various klinkhammer pattern will return.

9 Trout

After visiting the Royal Welsh show at Builth on a very hot morning I headed for the shade of the Edw in the afternoon.
Around a dozen trout caught on a Gold bead nymph cast up into the fast water in the heads of the pools.
Fished between 1 and 3 by which time I got to the gates that cross the river and decided to head for home and and a cool drink.

12 Trout