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15 trout 6-10inches to a para adams. Wonderful bit of river and probably the best days fly fishing I have had. Abundance of life along this river and probably the most agressive trout I've come across. Will definitely be back to this beat at some point.

15 Trout

13lb fairly fresh cock fish taken on a small Toby.

1 Salmon

Fished 11am through till 3pm, then had to leave for a meeting in Brecon. Very much an exploratory visit, and I thought that I would blank until, quite suddenly fish started to feed at just after 1pm. There had been fly (including a few Mays) before then, but no rising fish. However the very low water made them easily spooked and I put most down at the first attempt. A size 14 dark olive fooled 3, each about 10". The rise stopped as suddenly as it had begun, just after 2pm. A very nice beat, though campers might be a problem at the top end.

3 Trout

Fished Thursday, Saturday and Sunday for a few hours early morning, with conditions looking favourable, but no sign of any Salmon.

I fished from 11am-3-30pm on a warm and sunny day. River running low and clear with fish easily spooked, especially in the tails of pools. 14 trout of about 6 to 10 inches caught on CDC & Elk/Parachute Adams dry flies, the majority from in or near the faster/broken water where it was harder for the fish to know I was there. About half were caught casting to rising fish and the other half casting blind.

14 Trout

1200 to 1700. Sunny day. Wind East. Very little fly and few fish rising. Got 2 twaite on goldbead nymph in chapel gutters. Also 4 trout,best 14" and a grayling. Saw 5 big lamprey.

5 Trout, 1 Grayling, 2 Other

3 Trout

10lbs on Thursday by Stephen Orledge on F.C. Spinner.

1 Salmon

2 6" fish taken on a buzzer; another 6" taken on a mayfly. Fishing from Quakers Yard. Our first visit to the Taff and we were both very pleasantly surprised by the peaceful setting - we will be back!

3 Trout

We fished Lower Longtown and Olchon as we could use a single parking place, sharing a ticket. The rivers were very low indeed but at least the weather had warmed up. A steady trickle of Mays but the fish were sadly fairly uninterested. A solitary fish was focussed on Mays and he succumbed to our offering. Otherwise only one or two rises all day although we did bring a few more to surface dries. Nymphs fished duo however did better. The Monnow beat gave 5 to the net and as many on and offs. The Olchon gave 2 to the net...but the fish were cannier and had we landed all that we hooked we would have more than matched the morning. All the fish were of similar size, 6 to 9 inches. The Olchon is fairly demanding with barbed wire to cross and a few large trees to negotiate.

2 Trout