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The river was quite low, so I was fishing with casting practice in mind, so a blank day was well spent. My casting was much improved by the end. Catching will have to wait till next time

The trout rod fishing with me (was trying to catch a salmon) had great fun catching small brownies in the fast water with a dry fly. Think the rise was BWO's which hatched every time the sun came out.

2 Trout

Fished the upstream half of the beat after visiting the estate office. Weather was bright and mostly sunny as I made my way upstream looking for fish, eventually found a few fish rising right at the top of the beat and missed a couple of takes but casting from under the trees was proving difficult so headed back to find some easier to target fish as there was now a steady hatch of Olives. Found some fish rising in one of the pools and proceeded to miss take after take, hitting a few only for them to throw the hook soon after! All the time fish were rising in a slack under far bank trees so after spooking the easier to target fish I waded to a position that would allow me to target them. After a few attempts a big cast brushed the far bank branches and my small dry fly landed in the slack, moving slowly down steam a splashy take and a strike that met with firm resistance, luckily this one stayed on and after a spirited fight on my 4# a fish of over 2lb was netted and safely returned, chancing my luck I repeated the exercise and was rewarded with another good fish, possibly slightly smaller but still a lovely brownie. By now it was 2pm and so time to move to the down stream beat, unfortunately the weather had taken a turn for the worse with a strong downstream wind and rain. I only found a couple of fish rising, one refused stubbornly to take anything I offered it the other took the same fly at the first time of asking just down from the bridge. Decided to call it a day after that, very happy with the fish I took in the morning.

3 Trout

A cold downstream wind made for tricky fishing but a steady hatch of a variety of upwings kept the fish looking up. Fish caught on both nymphs and dries, biggest was 18", all returned.

12 Trout

Caught 2 trout on French leader. Found myself out gunned was using a number 2 ESN. Hooked 3 more had no chance of landing them. All hooked on a size 18 hares ear nymph weighted with tungsten.

2 Trout

No fish seen or caught, was great to meet Maurice and wife, lovely people with great stories, could have listened all day!

4 Trout

Huge sustained hatches of LDOs from 12 till 4. A few March Browns mixed in. Plenty of willing trout in tough cold wind. 20 trout 13" - 16"

20 Trout

10 Trout

1 fish taken on dry fly, approx 1lb weight. Fished French nymph technique mainly. Low water and very clear cold and mixed weather including snow. Stayed at the Tregenna Hotel in Merthyr Tydfil, good cheap, older accommodation needing a bit of an update but food quality quite good.

1 Trout