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A tricky beat to wade from the main road side, and a staff is a must! A great days sport, and a nice Shad, a new species for me, to finish the day off. All fish taken on a nymph, not many rises seen through the day.

6 Trout, 2 Other

Fantastic day, with 11 trout landed of 4 to 10 inches (approx). Fished Diawl Bach and Coch y bonddhu, wet early then dry later. The track is in pretty good shape, would have driven my VW transporter down if I'd have known. Well worth a visit, had the entire mountain range (it seemed) to myself+ not bothered by midges unlike some of the streams around.

11 Trout

Beautiful beat, three of us fishing ( brothers). Two of us caught 4 apiece and the other blanked. Oh dear ????

8 Trout

beaded nymph caught a small brownie returned.

1 Trout

7 of what we believe to be chub caught with various spinning fish lures. the tail fins looked quite pointed compared to some photos of chub on the web so photo attached. (WUF note: these are Twaite shad)

3 Trout, 7 Other

Water was very low for the time of the year. Downstream of the beat was better fishing.

2 Trout

Glorious evening fishing, with a spectacular.evening rise. There is a long pool with a shelf down the centre at the bottom of the beat, which proved very productive for the evening rise. It holds an incredible head of big fish. I spent the evening guiding for my friend, who had not picked up a rod for 10 years and despite this he had 8 fish in 4 hours.

No heavy hatches but a plethora of different emphemerotera. Were fishing Klinks in the faster water and reverting to size 16 little upwinged, cinnamon or cinnamon and cream patterns for the stiller water. Fish were a bit edgy and a minimum leader length of 16ft seemed necessary for the still water. We were veering towards 2lb test tippet and I would have gone lighter if my friend was striking with a bit more finesse.

A truly evening.

8 Trout

1 Trout, 4 Other

3 Trout, 1 Chub

Heavy cloud and light rain in the morning, with slight breeze. A good hatch of yellow mayfly, plus a few mayfly. Conditions good until 11:30, and then the sun came out and everything went quiet. Only morning fished. 10 trout and one grayling. Upwing imitations used (paradun with CDC). Tried nymphs but caught only parr, so stopped using this method. Lovely beat.

10 Trout, 1 Grayling