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River in flood - unable to fish

Great fun for a couple of hours - water level up and a tinge of colour. 13xwbt from 3-7" flicking a #20 goldbead nymph into the obvious places. As suspected a great beat after some wet weather!

13 Trout

Silver hen fish around 12lb. from Llangoed pool taken on size 4 gold bladed Mepps plus two trout, largest a 2lb. fish both on same spinner as salmon. All three fish caught mid -morning within half hour period and all swam off strongly when returned. Slight colour to water and a real push to the flow but the level seemed steady whilst I was there.

1 Salmon, 2 Trout

Tough day. River was really too high and coloured. Should be better tomorrow.

2 Trout

Fished from 6pm until 8:30pm, dropping in to likely runs where the undergrowth allowed, which was helped as the grass has been cut along the margins for part of the beat. Plenty of fly life, but few fish rising. That said, I did catch 4 of the trout to the dry, with shadow mayfly or elk hair caddis dry as part of duo. All others caught on the gold head pheasant tail nymph. Slight tinge of colour and still quite low.

5 Trout, 4 Grayling

River high and coloured but levelling off from spate when I arrived. Started getting takes on a Toby as soon as the river began dropping around 3.30 but first two came to nothing. The third was a beautiful fresh run fish of around 13-14lb which gave me a merry dance for almost thirty minutes in deep and fast water before coming to the net at the third attempt.

1 Salmon

4 Trout

Weather overcast but dry. River slightly coloured after the recent rain. Good hatches of flies of varying types but only the occasional fish rise. Caught 4 beautifully marked small trout. Two on a Gold Head Pheasant Tail and two on an Parachute Adams - all fish safely returned. Lost the biggest trout (1lb?) on an Olive Klinkhammer, after it jumped clear of the water and dislodged the fly. It looked like a fine specimen! The new styles and gates make for easy access to the beat, but it is very difficult to get access to the river at the top end through the wood. Overall a great day out.

4 Trout

A quick evening visit on the way back home and river was rattling along nicely with a freshet from the recent rains and also carrying a fair tinge of colour and the bed where you could see it has had a nice flush out. Could be good this week I guess !
Nothing much moving on top but some huge olive spinner clouds buzzing around over the river and the swallows and swifts where revelling on them. A size 14 clownshoe caddis got me the one fish so was happy with that.

1 Trout