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Heat wave conditions, river level 10", gin clear. Noon, only occasional fish rising. Dry Ginger Quill, size 14, 12 ' cast tapered to 2.5 lbs. Several rises, surprisingly, and one fish landed approx 1 1/2 lbs. Very fit fish in excellent condition. Returned and it swam away with gusto.

1 Trout

Killer weather ;-) low water, no breeze - easy access. Little or no hatch 10-1500 rose beautiful trout to Adams 14. And another nice (biggest) 12 ". Later took grayling to olive emerged 16 on shallow riffles near top of beat - tough going, but plenty to keep interest

2 Trout, 5 Grayling

Poor fishing, not a bite all day. Didn't see anyone else catch anything.

Hot day, river levels reasonable but we felt that an additional 6" or so would have made the conditions pretty much perfect. Water clear.
We had come the night before to do a reccie and witnessed a good Brook Dun hatch and the river come alive between 8-9.30pm. Plenty of fish in the upper 'car park' pool.
Parking at the bottom of the field access, we started at around 9am. The two of us went down to the lowest pool first. The water further down from the pool to the bridge was accessible in one or two spots. The glides were deep, the flow was slow and the floor, a flagstone bedrock bottom covered in brown algae, looked potentially hazardous so we gave that a miss. Nymph fished the pockets and runs up the lower pool and got the best fish of the day - 2 x 2+lb browns. Both in perfect condition and fighting fit, plus other smaller browns.
Middle riffle produced a small trout around 6" and a small Salmon parr. The upper pool didn't produce anything sadly to either dry or czech nymph. You can't fish the riffle above as that is in the Dinas stretch as maked on the map.

The evening saw the previous evening's hatch begin dropping but the expected mad feed on spents didn't materialise as we hoped. Caught one more small trout and got smashed on a very decent fish on dry (Adams and March Brown). Saw some 1/2lb fish feeding on the nearside bank under the trees around mid afternoon, some with the reported white fungus on their snouts. They all seemed healthy and were very happy supping midges and spent Brook Duns off the surface.
Lovely piece of water, will come again. Thank you W&U for making this water available.

8 Trout

Fished late afternoon until dark, little in the way of activity until almost dark. All fish caught on dry fly.

5 Trout

I think i saw a salmon in one of the lower pools but had no success so i swithched to grayling and trout.

A very hot day with beautiful conditions. I began fishing with a nymph rig and caught a fair few fish throughout the day. Towards evening there were many fish rising so I switched to a dry fly and in the space of 10 minuites i caught 2 grayling and 1 trout on a CDC emerger. I reckon if i had been there longer i could have caught another 10 fish but my dad made me leave as he was tired from last night's sea-trout fishing. I will return with many more dry flies.

Just before sundown we stood on the brigd at Builth watching the Wye for 20 minutes and we must have seen a couple of hundred rises. There was no time when there wasn't at least one fish rising. A perfect weekend.

3 Trout, 10 Grayling

Extremely hot, a couple of Chub early and then went very quiet

2 Chub