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Only fished part of the beat, water still a bit colored from the recent rain. One nice grayling about 12 inch, all trout where on the small side between 6 and 9 inch. No rising fish at all.

6 Trout, 1 Grayling

A glorious warm day with lots of grannom, caddis, small and large upwings including a lone yellow may but few rises relative to the amount of fly life. All fish caught bar one came to dries. Very close encounter with a dog otter, which was delightful and made my day as much as the fishing! The river was low and clear but tea stained after a spate the previous day.

8 Trout

River very coloured no fish moving no hatch

Early start. River good height at 0.82m and falling.carrying a little to much colour at first but perfect by close of play. A lovely day in great company ensued but no sign of Salmo Salar. Intermittent hatch of mixed Ephemera including Yellow May Duns throughout the day but only occasional riser.

Spinning and worm

4 Trout

Slow morning but picked up in the afternoon with three fish on the dry. One a good size. Very easy access and wading made for a lovely day

3 Trout

fly. coloured water. condition got better in the evening. no salmon.

Lovely beat & fantastic scenery but caught the river slightly up but coloured with visibility about 12 inches . contacted one or two and was broken by something decent . Banks mainly wooded making access difficult and with the river coloured was not confident on wading to deep for our first visit. lots of otter signs, no rising fish on our day due to no fly hatches = no fish.

Superb conditions now with fish in all the pools. Good lift of water overnight made all the difference. Sadly 2 fish lost this morning but what great sport. Had to leave early today but will definitely be back tomorrow. Fish showing on beats 3 and 4 [ thats all I had time to see.] Sad shortage of angling effort given the conditions are good. Only saw 1 other rod, hope he did better.

We were very disappointed - it had rained heavily the day before when we were on the Abercynrig beat and today dawned with more very heavy rain. We visited the beat but decided to give the conditions best. The river was running fast and a bit silted - thigh waders would certainly not have been adequate. So we did not even put up the rods and had a very wet journey back to Oxfordshire.
We will come again...!! Geoffrey Bailey