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Not a good day: night before had a terrible thunder storm and plenty of rain. The river was in flood and like chocolate. Arrived at 7 am walked the beat till 12pm no sign of letting up. looks a good beat thou, will try again.

5 Trout

river was swollen and coloured from overnight rain ..beautiful scenery!

River becoming increasingly coloured as the morning progressed. Got a couple of early fish to dry fly but by 11:00 visibility was down to around six inches - so went home for lunch!

2 Trout

4 Trout

Bright sun and clear water made for tricky conditions. There are still access issues along the lower section and I had to ask a none-too-happy farmer to walk through their garden on the way up and back down the beat to avoid clambering over barbed wire fences. 7 wbt on dry fly and nymph. Most were 1/2 - 3/4lbs but I managed one larger fish weighing 3lbs at 22inches. Very hard work with most of the risers in flat water or tucked away beneath overhanging branches.

7 Trout

2 very pretty brown trout, biggest pushing 2lb, both taken on a coch-y-bonddu dry fly and both returned.

2 Trout

2 fish taken. Lots of mayfly but relatively few fish rising. Fish taken on mayfly nymph. River looks healthy and lovely location /scenery. Wading harder than the description but maybe this was partly due to strong flow of the river

8 Trout

River coloured but could still see the bottom caught on nymphs high sticking at close range. Lost 6.

3 Trout

First time to the River Loughor so we were a little apprehensive about trying somewhere new. Unfortunately it didn't start well as we were flooded off for the first 24 hours with some unexpected rain... However, as a spate river it dropped and cleared relatively quickly so we were up and running soon after. Trout fishing during the day in bright sunshine and temperatures of over 20 degrees was tough but we landed a good amount of small, beautifully marked brownies. I need to mention Lyn Davies, who is a local fishing guide, he gave us some excellent advice on where to fish and how to fish the river. We did manage a night's sea trout fishing and after a rise in river level we were hopeful that we would have a couple of opportunities at them. Well, as we were fishing our way down our first pool, James, who was fishing in front of me with a surface lure got smashed by a very decent fish on his fifth cast! Unfortunately after some thrashing on the surface the fish came off! Expletives were used.... but an encouraging start. 10 mins later as I was swinging a fly on an intermediate line I had a tiny pluck from the darkness. I struck and a nice sea trout started cartwheeling around the pool. After a short fight we landed a lovely 2 pound sea trout. She was safely released to carry on her journey. What great couple of days on a gem of a river. Definitely not an easy river to fish but once you get the hang of it the rewards could be very worth wile. We shall return...

15 Trout, 1 Sea Trout