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2 Trout

River with s little colour. 1 x fish on at Aldees Pool on FC but lost it! Plenty of fish rising early am.

The wind is getting to be a pain now! Straight in my face today so it was nymphs again. Fished 11:00hrs 'til 15:30hrs. Saw a couple of splashy rises that's all. Fish came from the deep ' blue ' holes. Lovely valley and a magical place. Saw lots of fresh footprints in the likely spots so I think the residents of the cottage may have been out before me? It's been said before by others and I'll add my comments - there's a couple of cracking runs which are completely unfishable now with overhanging branches. Desperately needs cutting back in a few places. Lots of BWO's and Sherry Spinners about but too windy to fish dries.

I didn't fish above the bridge as the fish had switched off by the time I'd got there so I drew stumps.

It's like a forgotten valley up there. On the way home I was stuck behind a large dairy herd which was making their way up the road to the farm. Lovely to see and I haven't seen that for years. Made my day.

5 Trout, 4 Grayling

water getting low ,no fish seen or taken

Fished from 2.30 to 7.45pm. Almost no sign of any fish at all. Only saw two small rises. Water seemed a bit murky. I did see two kingfishers and a robin

4 Trout

My first time on The Rectory beat and following all the water last week my hopes were high. Gauge was at 1'2" with good clarity. Quite breezy at times. Alas it was not to be. Fished Island, Rock, Tail, Bridge, Mill, Rectory neck with not even a fish showing. Went back to Rock at 7.30pm to see if an evening session might change things. Unfortunately not although a big fish, twenty pounds ?, jumped about 10 yards from me as I worked down the tail. Salmon fishing huh? On to Penpont now to hopefully have more success.

Slightly overcast weather conditions with a variable breeze. Fished along the dam during the afternoon and early evening. Few fish showing, so fished with a variety of traditional wet and nymph patterns sub surface. Missed two takes to a Diawl Bach early on. Two WBT of approximately 12" each taken on GRHE and Damsel nymph patterns and released.

2 Trout

A stunning location, and another great section of the Honddu… but what a weird day. I managed to land 11 fish (all small WBT) but hooked, fluffed, missed, shook-off and got ‘spat out’ by at least 25 other fish in different places. It was extremely frustrating. It can’t have been the hooks, because they are what I usually use, maybe it was my technique… I’d like to think that the fish here have different shaped mouths to the norm!!! I think that a better fisherman than me would be up in the +20 zone for the day if even just a fraction of the chances were taken.

The day started with low cloud and a bit of drizzle, but that soon burnt off and it turned warmer with light cloud and sunny spells. I liked the fact that you parked mid way down the beat, easy to get back to the car for food and drink. It was difficult to find the start and finish of the beat. I don’t think I was in the correct place at the bottom, but I did eventually find the upper limit sign.

There is a great variety of fishing on this beat, with some open spaces to allow you to cast, and then a few tighter almost unfishable spots. The wind was a bit of an issue, so I fished nymphs off a Klinkhammer for most of the day. Interestingly there were quite a few takes on the Klinkhammer, so later in the day/early evening I switched to drys with some success.

Met the friendly farmer/land owner for one of the sections, and she was happy to know that there are fish in the stream. One word of warning though, there is a campsite that runs along much of the length of the beat, so I would stay away at weekends (is it open at weekends?) and any holiday period. I would say that it is a no-go during these times. Now is perfect.

11 Trout