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Turned up at the lovely Titley beat at about half twelve , loads of insect activity as I crossed the footbridge to bimbled down to the start of the beat , not to big a number of mayflies yet !!!! Blustery and reading eighteen degrees in my truck , lovely afternoon , although accurate casting the big flies was hard going !!!

Initiallyi tied on a small grey Wulff , some interest , and just up from the footbridge first eight inch lovely brownie to hand , spot on !!!! Sport got more hectic , as the mayflies increased in numbers . . . Big time too ; from about half two , sport was superb , and some lunkers hit the Mohican mayfly too , three of the tally of nine were over thirteen inches , superb run around on the six foot , two weight rod !!!!

All the way up to the weir , dry fly sport was fabulous , and I was just in the right place at the right time !!! Even had some nice fish in the shallow riffles too , Great fun , although the bigger brownies were positioning themselves for easy pickings in the slower water , at the end of the feed lanes , and boy were they hitting the mayflies hard for an hour or so . . . . Was great fun , and looking up the river , you could see splashy Rises everywhere !!!!!

An excellent four hours , and nine beauties to the net , a smashing few hours in a tranquil valley , a memorable afternoon , shall head back to the Arrow early next week . . . . Happy day so !!!!!!!!

9 Trout

10 -11 lb fresh hen fish with net/seal marks on right flank, caught 1715 on top of no 4 , just below steps on small irish shrimp fly and 11ft 6" switch rod

1 Salmon

A lovely day again on the Edw. Not as productive as last week but again managed to combat countless strikes from smaller fish by using a larger fly than usual and happy to bring four 6”+ brownies to hand, the best a nice fat beauty at 9”.

The local pub, the Seven Stars, just up from the Aberedw beat parking space has re-opened as a community pub and has a well kept pint of Butty Bach available from 4pm on Thursday and Friday (plus weekends) along with a friendly welcome for thirsty fishermen.

4 Trout

9 Trout

9 Trout

2 Trout

2 Trout

Enjoyable afternoon on a nice stretch of river. Water level was low but still plenty of fish moving around and managed to convince one with a brown sedge.

1 Trout

Today was about how many fish i missed! Oh, for some more talent! I had takes from about 30 fish but most got off or I didn't hook properly in the first place. Talking of those that got away, I caught a 2KG trout... and guess what happened....

6 Trout

Started off the evening after salmon but the mayfly spinner fall had me distracted so back to the car for the Trout rod managed 9 to just over a pound, some big fish moving !

9 Trout