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A lovely river to fish with plenty of features, pools, glides etc. I needed to keep moving to find the fish and I only saw a few risers. I managed to bring each one up to my small, barbless, dry fly but hooking them and keeping the wild trout on was a different matter. I lost four which shook the hook but landed two grayling, one of which required the use of the scoop net.

2 Grayling

We arrived hopeful as the river had risen to .75m overnight after a long spell at its lowest but it turned out to be a pretty tough day. We fished as many swims as we could throughout the full length of the beat with standard pellet approach. Access to the water is good and the beat is a nice flat walk along its length. We found campers fishing the lower meadow but after checking with w&u now understand that there is no agreement in place with the fishery owners to allow this so they should not prevent your access to this meadow

2 Barbel, 3 Chub

12 Trout

2 Trout

River up just under a foot, fished well to nymphs, wading challenging in this height of water

2 Trout, 30 Grayling

Arrived at dawn after very early start. River 0.7m and falling. Carrying too much colour for fly but persevered anyway. Fished hard for 8 hrs punctuated by a delightful kip on the bank at halftime.
Saw 4 fish in total on Rock and 12 in total below the bridge various sizes and hues.(one 20lb below cables) Mostly runners I suspect.Got drenched 3 times and river held its colour. Had a beautiful 11/2lb brownie at end ,safely returned. Prospects excellent for tomorrow . Go gettum Gary!

1 Trout

Fished fly up the top end, conditions looked great, a warm damp day with good cloud cover. But for a full day's fishing, using every method I could muster I caught no trout, had one knock on a lure and caught one small perch.

I only saw half a dozen fish move all day. Where are the fish? Its a massive reservoir and when you have no action you begin to wonder if you are chucking your flies at empty water. A shame really cos I love fishing this venue and want to continue to do so.

1 Other

We were lucky to see some rain this weekend and I had booked LLangoed in the hope of seeing plenty of movement. To my amazement there were just about no fish in evidence at all. I saw a couple of small rises and one smallish salmon and that was it. I caught 6 trout up to 1/2 lb, one of which was a bluey silvery colour. I can't believe it was a smolt; they've all gone now surely. Could it be a 'blue trout'?

6 Trout

All taken on a dry fly, and all returned to the river (barbless hooks). One Trout was over two pounds and one Grayling nearly one and a half pounds - the others all takers but smaller. Water lower than the day before, but still dangerous and difficult to wade.

3 Trout, 3 Grayling