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Nothing caught

A beautiful day in a beautiful valley. Fished with 8 year old daughter Scarlett, and spent most of my time teaching her bad casting habits. A few mayfly about but nothing much rising to them. Stuck on an Adams, as usual, and we managed to hook 4 and miss a lot more. Failed in all of the best looking pools, also as usual, but managed to find a few here and there who refused to be frightened off by our clumsy approach. Only fished up as far as the bridge before the common, before wandering back along the wild flowered lane to the truck. On the way back to the main road we passed a sign saying "danger, young lambs", to which Scarlett exclaimed "I didn't know lambs were dangerous!"

4 Trout

Beautiful day on the river with some excellent conditions. We have several fish daily early in the day and later in the afternoon. Most fish fell to a klinkhammer or GRHE fished upstream. Lost one very good fish early in the day which wrapped its self round a rock!

12 Trout

Fine sunny day with light breeze. No luck in the fly for one of us but four 2.5lb rainbow on small mepps spinner for the other. Good to see a reduction in the litter but the road is in very poor condition due to heavy trucks removing timber, potholes could be damaging.

Very little hatching and no rises. Had to stick to nymphs. Best trout at 14" and two of the Grayling were 17".

15 Trout, 3 Grayling

2 Rainbow Trout and 1 Brown Trout caught spinning. All 3 fish caught were released unharmed.

3 Trout

Water pretty clear and just under a foot at Llanstephan. A trickle of flies coming off throughout the day including the odd try mayfly. There were plenty of Yellow Mays that the trout, as always, completely ignored. In fact there were very few rising fish hence it was on bead-head nymphs that I caught the five fish. I had lots of taps and tugs so fishing was interesting all day. Best fish was a trout of about 15". All fish returned.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling

Only fished the evening. Easterly wind and nothing much moving. Fish of 1 lb took Soldier Palmer mini muddler.

1 Trout

A glorious day of Mayfly fishing. A steady trickle of Mayfly were coming off at lunchtime when I started, but huge numbers by late afternoon and early evening. However, most were ignored in the glides, but there was still a few rising fish to target. In contrast, the faster runs were full of feeding fish which were almost falling over themselves to take a CDC mayfly, although they didn't make their presence very obvious. I lost count of fish caught, but it was well over 20 between 10 and 15" with many more missed takes and lost fish. Also had to cut a lamb free which although badly tangled in a bundle of temporary fencing, could still run faster than me. Great to see the Monnow so full of trout.

20 Trout

Lovely day's fishing starting early and finished by 3 due to having to return to London. 10 trout on a combination of nymph and Mayfly. Trout of varying size with two lovely fish around the 1lb mark. Hatch of mayfly increased during the course of the day though relatively few fish rising for most of the time I was there. Typically, things seemed to be hotting up as I had to leave. I wonder how the other rod progressed later on in the day?!

10 Trout