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Lovely stretch of water. Some fly life seen but not a lot of encouragement from the weather. This meant that we were mostly restricted to the faster water using nymphs. I can imagine that both this beat and Dinas would be marvellous during a heavy hatch of fly. Nothing spectacular when it came to size of fish but fair amount of sport during the day.

20 Trout

Nice day. Not much rising.

10 Trout

5 Trout

9 Trout, 7 Grayling

6 good sized rainbows caught after a bit of a wash out in the morning, moved beat to the near the dam and all six were landed in quick succession, thank you

6 Trout

river too high

6 Trout

Well , up at sparrows fart again , on a day off , that initially looked good , as I mooched in the fields with the dog , it felt heavy and cloudy with sun trying to break through , looking like rain later . . . .

So two hours on the usual haunts down the Pinsley Brook , WUF sections and private , and a few fun hours the last week or so I've had here , great feisty little fish , miniature Rocky Balboas !!!!!!!!

Tiny Parachute Adams , not a sniff , clever fish these wild brownies , been using an Adams here regularly , so changed to a black klinkhammer , and shallow section going into deep pool , nice splashy rise , lovely fish , admired then slipped back in . Once again glad I was using my old Barbour neoprene waders , Great for stomping through anything !!!! This isn't the place for top notch Simms waders !!! Must admit I do sweat buckets in them , but worth it for some close range dry fly action!!!

Two this morning , both good takes on the black klinkhammer , loads of insect life in and around this little Brook , fish both about nine inches , great condition as always . They've got an extensive larder to pick and choose from here , so always in good nick . A fun early morning , back to the Ponderosa , pooch out for a bit then a quick three mile run before the rain comes in , happy days !!!!!!

2 Trout

11 x trout 6-10 inches, size 16 Goldbead Hare's Ear nymph. On a warm and cloudy morning, I was for some reason determined that dry fly was going to work. So I wasted the whole bottom half of the beat with nothing seen, nothing risen. Eventually I got the message - as soon as I put a nymph on, I began to catch fish.

11 Trout