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River at 1ft 6". Couple of hours after work. Water running out for the top half but as I was approaching the tail of the rock pool a broad back broke the surface in the prime taking lie. The anticipation as I swung a fly over it was immense! Worked the lie for 20 mins with various methods to no avail.
Water was perfect height for lower half so I went down and fought my way through the rocks and vegetation to get to the Neck of the Rectory. Down at the gap, there was a boil and a flash of silver as the fly was swept off the far bank. Couldn't get that one to come again so fished on and right in the aperture where the whole Wye rushes through a 5 yard wide gap the reel screamed into life. How they lie in that water amazes me. Great first run as it charged down into the pool below. When I saw it I thought it was the mother of all trout...but when it slid into the net it was a heavily spotted coloured hen salmon that was just under 10lb.
Decided to go back up and try the one that boiled again and sweet as a nut it nailed the fly. Better fish that for a while held station in the torrent for several minutes making me think it might have transferred the fly to a rock, no amount of pressure could move it but it eventually succumbed; 16lb of perfect Wye springer. Didn't cast again. Sated.

2 Salmon, 3 Trout

Caught 2 Brownies (returned) and one RB almost 2lb. Also caught a beautiful Perch on a nymph!

3 Trout, 1 Other

Two trout caught and released. The strong downstream wind made presenting a fly upstream well almost impossible on most of the water. A couple of sheltered spots at the bottom of the fishery saw one of the few rising fish caught on a Greenwell dry and another caught on a weighted Hares Ear. The wind dropped off at the end of the day and transformed the river totally making it look a good place to fish, a real shame it was so late in the day.

2 Trout

Blank.

11th May 2015 Steve Grimwood 20lbs Devon minnow and Robin Woods 5lbs on a spinner - Aber Pool, Llysdinam.
21st May 2015, Steve Grimwood 8lbs on fly (thunder & lightning)- Aber Pool, Llysdinam.

3 Salmon

15lb Hen fish caught on 1 inch cascade. Beat 4. Very fresh fish, in prime condition. Floating line with sinking poly leader. No other rods on river. First Shad but its still early. Red Kite for company.

1 Salmon, 1 Other

A few hours on the dulas today. Lovely stream with a good head of trout. All fish came to beadhead nymph and black f-fly fished duo. All trout around the eight inch mark with one or two a tad bigger. None of the larger fish could be tempted due to very bright conditions.

15 Trout

No fish caught.

17 trout mostly 6-10 inches on a fairly mild and increasingly breezy day.
I started off with a "klink and dink" rig catching one on a small PT nymph before switching to a single dry fly after seeing a few rises and hooking and losing a couple of fish on the klinkhammer. 9 were caught on cdc dry flies in slower moving water (including 6 from the same glide/pool) with not much happening in the faster water where I was catching them here last year. After nearly an hour of being unable to rise any fish and the mostly downstream wind making casting difficult, I switched to shortline nymphing. 7 more trout were caught on heavy tungsten beaded PT nymphs, the majority coming from deeper turbulent water.

17 Trout

3 x BT caught and released safely - 9, 12 and 16 inches.
All caught on PT parachute.

3 Trout