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Beautiful wild and secluded beat. Water crystal clear. Series of shallow pools, runs and riffles, including some spectacular low waterfalls. Wading is extremely difficult because the stones, boulders and rocks are as slippy as ice - no exaggeration. I wore rubber soles and could only stand very precariously, I went down numerous times on to knees and wrists, and it would be easy to get a full soaking (or worse)or damage rod/reel. I started fishing at 1000, which was too early given the conditions on the day, the river only really came to life in the afternoon. Until fish started rising I concentrated on running nymphs through riffles at the heads of pools, and hooked two fish on a heavily weighted pink tag, but the hook pulled out on both. From about 1800 fish, some of them big, were rising consistently in most pools, but they spooked very easily in the shallow, clear pools and I could not get them interested in the large variety of dries and emergers that I tried. I think I was probably lining fish, even with a 12 ft leader, I might have been better with something lighter than a 5 wt rod - but there are some good fish there. With hindsight I should have focused on tiny dries later on in the day, and ultra stealth. No fish landed, which seems crazy, but I am happy.

Unfortunately there was a camping party on the other side of the river towards the downstream end of the beat. They were fooling around in the river and making a lot of noise.
I gave up after an hour.

1 caught

1 Trout

One Trout Approx 10oz caught on mayfly pattern And a few takes on a gold beaded PT nymph. Beautiful stretch of the river Arrow but only managed a couple of hours in the late evening Before loosing the light. Will return to fish the lower section next time

1 Trout

Lovely day on Dinas. Not much rising managed to get one late afternoon on a olive nymph and lost a good sized fish in top
Pool

1 Trout

1 x 5" Brown Trout

1 Trout

2 Trout

Warm and sunny day. Didn’t see any fish rising unit just before leaving for the day. X2 trout and 1 grayling caught.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

3 Trout

All dry fly, all returned.
Super day!

20 Trout