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Fished upstream of Pontygwaith Bridge. Lovely weather, bright and warm with no wind. A few Large Dark Olives and March Brown's coming off when we arrived but the hatch very soon petered out, no fish rising. Despite the rubbish a lovely beat with plenty of very trouty water.

North westerly wind was more lively as the day went on, making casting difficult. Sun brighter too in the afternoon, despite cloudy forecast. Few fish rose and not many flies anywhere along the beat.
Small trout took march brown wetfly and managed one rise to Adams dry fly. The advertised parking at the end of waterworks lane was unavailable. Access gate was padlocked by local Fair organisers.
I felt the booking admin fee for the Breconshire beat ( at 20% of the day ticket) was a little steep.

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Sunny cloudless day, 14C / 57F air temp and 7C / 45F water temp. Water green cloudy, about 3ft visibility, dropping about 0.1m per day after 4.1m flood over the banks ten days ago. Water at 0.89m on Ross EA Gauge, and 3’3” on beat Gauge. A good push of water flowing through and still too high for fly fishing in our opinion. We persevered, but neither saw nor touched any fish. We understand that this beat fishes best at below 2’9” on the Beat gauge, ie around 0.74m on the Ross EA gauge.

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4 x trout 8-13 inches, spiders. A difficult morning with bright sunshine and a big temperature swing, from a slight frost first thing to 15 degrees at lunchtime. Almost no surface rises and trout which did come up to spiders were taking diffidently rather than confidently (blame the fish, not the angler!) I certainly missed a lot of slight plucks and pulls.

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1 fish 10lbs from the Chapel Catch. at 10-30 am. This was a nice clean Hen and fought well.
Regards Denis

No fish caught today

Bigswear to high and coloured to fish, went to Caermawr. fished with Nathan Jubb, and John. River in good condition, had
very good tuition and learnt a lot during the day. No fish caught.

Well after doing some intensive house chores ha ha !!!!! I thought it high time I headed to a venue I haven't been to for an age , so opted for the Edw , at Hundred House . . . .

I arrived at the bridge at about tenish , tackled up usual outfit , an started mooching upstream , which a team of two nymphs , one a goldhead , tuther pheasant tail nymph , see how the mop flops with them !!!!!

Seems as though the coppicicng of the first two hundred yards has been very savage indeed , bankside alders etc etc down in some lovely pools , not sure who's done this , as it will eventually let light in , and some will be good tree kickers , I suppose , but still a shame that lots of pools are Unfishable . . . .

First Edw brownie , small ,from a deep meandering pool , only eight inches took goldhead hairs ear , spirited scrap , and quickly released , good start . . . Worked my way upstream , working all the water , and was an hour later when I had another good hit , again on the goldhead nymph , deep pool again , Same size roughly as the first , no real action on the Edw after those two , still , Bit early , hey ho . . . . . . . . .

And at midday was a great hatch of LDO ,s showing , and some March browns , but they werent in any danger , as the resident Edw brownies weren't rising at all , which was a shame , as they really put in a good appearance , and even though I tried a sixteen Adams for half hour , no response at all . . . .

Still , a lovely three hours on a cracking spring day , two gorgeous brownies caught and released , kingfishers seen , lambs in the fields , upwings on the go , what more could a fly fisher want , spot on , back soon when things crank up a bit here . . . . . .

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