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5 Trout, 1 Barbel

My first visit to this beat. Although water levels were low judging by the high bank line and exposed gravel it made for fairly comfortable wading, ( with a staff) and fishing. A lovely river to fish and although no trout caught I managed five very nice grayling up to about 17inches about halfway down the beat. The first 'came out of the blue' to a dry size 16 Elk hair sedge and gave me a merry song and dance leaping from the water about 3 times before I had him under control on my light tippet. Just proves that it is worth keeping your flies on/in the water even when confidence starts to wain. Having found one grayling I concentrated on that pool/area hoping that I had found a shoal. Others were caught using a very small pink head tungsten bead shrimp pattern under an indicator and the fish kept getting bigger! Great fun and I plan to return. Thank you.

5 Grayling

Fished two sessions, morning and evening in the Woods section. Used 12mm pellets with a long hair to try and avoid the chub. I also ignored the chub pulls, unless they effectively hooked themselves. 4 barbel in the morning and 4 in the evening, all relatively spaced out. I could have caught many more chub, if I had been striking at every pull. Largest barbel a very nice fish at 9lb 3oz. Others all in the 5 - 7 lb range. River seemed to be at about normal summer levels, but was very coloured.

8 Barbel, 30 Chub

This is a lovely open beat, myself and S.P the other half had an excellent couple of hours, it was her first time on a stream and resulted in her first wild trout on a dry fly and her second.

Great morning, llanddewi meter was reading .125 so fairly showing its bones but plenty of life about and the treat of a kingfisher too.

4 Trout

worst session so far, very quiet but we try again and see how it goes.

2 Trout

Beautiful, sunny day. Not a lot of activity on the water. Saw plenty of midges and mayflies, but no rising trout.

Hot , sunny and windy day . Very difficult conditions but had a lovely small trout each on a wet fly and nymph . Fish not rising , or coming to dries . Both fish returned .
Stunning place to fish , will come again when cooler

2 Trout

Three nice trout caught to dry on Parachute Adams or BWO. Frustrated at times as twice as many fish than I caught jumped off. River was very low and clouded-up every so often. I imagine there were farm animals cooling off further up stream. Upper part of beat where it goes single bank is not fishable. I walked up it for a couple of hundred yards and gave up as I couldn’t get a cast. Nice day.

3 Trout

A lovely evening, fished for a couple of hours from 6.30pm. Gentle SW wind, the odd fish rising. It’s a great stretch of river. However: the banks are generally steep along the length of the beat; complicated by jungle-like summer growth of nettles, brambles and Himalayan balsam. All in all rather frustrating. Yes, you can wade, but for the deeper pools you do need to exit the water and then spend a while looking for another entry point. I’ll come back for the grayling in the winter when the undergrowth has died back.