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River is extremely low, lots of salmon. hooked one on a largish green nymph but lost him after 10 mins, only had 4lb leader so probably would never have got him in anyway. lots of grayling about.

3 Trout, 2 Grayling

Difficult day with temperatures in upper 20s, no cloud and very low water.
small trout up to 1 pound on dry fly especially from 8pm til dark.

6 Trout

Weather hot and the river lower than |I have ever seen it. Sporadic dry fly activity so chanced my luck in the riffles and deeper areas but with no trout brought to hand.

Whilst I fished Abercynrig (the adjacent beat down river) my brother fished Dinas. Much better luck than myself with six good trout coming to the net. All taken on nymphs from the riffles above and below the road bridge.

6 Trout

Second of two days. Trotted for a couple of hours in the morning but gave up when canoe traffic increased. Returned to beat late afternoon to continue fishing but rather busy with canoeists and swimmers. Some individuals particularly ignorant and showed no consideration to myself trying to fish. The canoe hire companies must increase the awareness of the angling which takes place and educate the individuals that hire the canoes. Numerous canoeist asked to leave the bank of the fishery and swimmers asked not to swim in fishing areas. Managed to fish for a couple of undisturbed hours late afternoon and caught on pellets and boilies using feeder. Unfortunately session cut short by ignorant evening swimmers/canoeists. Still a very nice and productive stretch of beautiful river just need to be aware of the best times to take advantage.

5 Barbel, 3 Chub

Most fish of the fish fell to double hair-rigged sweet corn (even the eel!)

Water was low and it was impossible to get into the water from the banks. If you want to actually get in the water to trot baits in the shallow part of the stretch this is not possible.

It’s also very difficult to safely return Barbel to the water given the steep banks, you have to rest them in the landing net and try to keep them in the flow which as we all know is quite difficult.

That said - this is a beautiful river and we thoroughly enjoyed the fishing and scenery. Weather was hot but we still caught Barbel during the day, we found the fast water on the inside in the upper reaches of the beat.

6 Barbel, 3 Chub, 1 Other

A tough, very hot day, on a low, clear, river. What didn't help either was the vast amount of weed coming down stream around 6.00pm which made it un-fishable during the 'witching hour'. I am pretty sure someone was cutting the weed further upstream, it was far too much for the Swans to be uprooting! However, the scenery, Blue Damsels and birdlife were superb and personally, I think we had quite a good day.

2 Barbel, 15 Chub, 1 Other

6 Trout

7 x trout 6-10 inches, Foam Beetle. Early morning visit with the stream very low and clear

7 Trout

Very hot lazy trout until 6 pm. 4 caught on an Olive klinkhammer And a grey klinkhammer

4 Trout