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Would have liked more trout, but had a wonderful day.
All caught on euronymph rig

2 Trout, 5 Grayling

A magic setting!
Straight away saw some mayflies coming off & plenty of empty nymph casings on the rocks. I fished about 4-8pm only covering about half the beat. Little moving (at least that I spotted). I very much felt that you had one shot per pool & my skills would likely not have been up to scratch even if I were less rusty! Sure there'd have been trout in some of the quick runs but I found it hard keeping track or touch with nymphs or sighter-klinkhammers. Surely something to practice!
I'd never been up the valley before &, the following day, walked up to Grwyne Fawr reservoir alongside some army people on training & a friendly team of National Park volunteers doing repairs on the pathways. I wish WUF could get control of the reservoir as it is a wonderful spot but only available through Glenusk (& definitely not cheap to book!).

1 Trout

1 Trout

20 Trout

nothing caught

Was spinning with light weight setup, caught one wild brownie and one rainbow.

2 Trout

An afternoon/evening session hoping for a mayfly hatch. There weren’t many around, although the trout did lock on for half an hour in the evening, beautiful fat and colourful Lugg fish as usual, best 14”. A few pea in a pod 8 inch grayling getting ready for the season to open too. Last knockings a couple of fish were rising under the footbridge – James twitched a mayfly over them which got hammered and a good fish charged down the pool, despite his best efforts it got under the bushes and that was that. Never mind, 10 seemed like a good evening.

no fish caught but 1 sea trout took after dark

1 Trout

2 x small trout on orange spider. Funny day, weather was ideal but fish not playing. Hardly any rising fish. Nice beat, I enjoyed it.

2 Trout