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12 fish caught, 1 on Toby spinner, 1 on bubble and ten on bottom.

12 Trout

First outing since August and it showed, a few tugs on small GRHE but could only convert one to hand. Hope my reactions improve for the rest of the weekend!

1 Trout

First time on this beat and it took me a couple of hours of fishing to brush up on my small river skills. So after hooking more than a few trees the roll casts started to work and a black tung beadheaded PTN fished on a greased leader caught me three trout and one OOS grayling. A cold day with no hatch to speak of.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

Five trout between 4 inches and 8 inches all caught on goldhead nymphs. The fish seemed to prefer the deep holes. There were a few sporadic rises but no real hatch. Quite bright and sunny with good water clarity. Clearance work much appreciated.

5 Trout

First time on this water and with 3 hours to spare, I fished the top of the beat spinning. No fish to report.

Wall to wall sunshine and blue sky (mid 60s), water at around 1'6" on Llanstephan gauge (46F-48F), falling slowly, clear to out of depth with green ting.
Many Trout rising for brown upwing flies between 11:00 - 13:00.
Fished F/S3 & F/S1 with 1" black/yellow/silver tubes.
No Salmon seen. Some difficult wading; as much spinning water as fly water on this beat at this height.

A tricky day. Lovely weather but not much going on above or below water. Just a few LDOs and the odd March Brown about and only a handful of rises. I had no success nymphing but managed to tempt one 8" wbt with a Parachute Adams, safely returned. Missed another couple of takes. Water levels seem very low for this time of year.

1 Trout

Beautiful day but only saw 1 fish rise. 1 trout 6-7" on weighted nymph.

1 Trout

Arrived at 10 a.m. with a hatch of olives all ready underway. March browns hatched at midday along with a huge hatch of grannom which went on for a couple of hours. Very few risers. Had pulls on olive, march brown nymphs and green sedge pupa at appropriate times but none landed except a runt of a salmon parr. A glorious warm and sunny spring day with temp nudging 70 degrees.

1 Other

Beautiful spring day, if a bit bright for fishing. Still, when you're somewhere as lovely as this beat you don't get too frustrated. There were a few grannom coming off throughout the day with a much more sustained hatch in the late morning. The trout were feeding on the surface at this time and a couple were taken on a parachute Adams. All the other fish came to small weighted nymphs. Great to be back on the river.

9 Trout, 3 Grayling