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Dry fly with and without NZ style produced no result. Two fish were to black spider. Cold wind meant no surface activity although there were a variety of upwinged flies coming off. Water crystal clear and quite low.
Nice to see a river relatively free of himalayan balsam although there were one or two small patches. Hopefully these won't be allowed to spread further.

2 Trout

Lost x 2 trout, during the day, so blank. Still, I enjoyed the day. One comment I would have is that of access to some of the named pools on this beat is quite difficult and could be improved by the provision of wooden steps in certain areas.

It was a fantastic day. I started just above the cottage and caught (dry fly) there few trout around 8 inches. I tried nymph, but nothing.
Then I moved forward on a place where I caught a grayling a few days before. The weather was quite perfect, cloudy with a gentle breeze. Then I start dry fly and caught many graylings, all around 10 and 12 inches, with many missed. It was a really good afternoon. I even caught one on nymph (just for a test), and one trout also around 8/10 inches.

5 Trout, 15 Grayling

Very little sign of life despite clouds of fly-life hatching. Water conditions very good and no bother with wind, which appears to have been the norm of late. We managed only one fish between us but it was a cracker: a large WBT probably of the order of 18" long. Well done CB! We will of course go back to this great stretch of water.

1 Trout

Inspite of having fished here 4 times this year already and in past seasons, I still stupidly managed to fall foul of the am/pm beat swap, so with much embarrassment I made/make huge apologies to the Llanstephan rods. After making the original booking, I had to rearrange for the following day and then mistakenly made the "obvious" beat swap in my mind - instead of checking the details more keenly for the 4th Sunday in the month! Note to self and perhaps other beware, always check the details!
Lovely fly water at 1ft 4" but once again sadly I could not find a Salmon. Plenty of Shad coming to a fly, Trout and a 7" Grayling. The three casts for the day with the spinning rod were in Llangoed pool and resulted in a Pike.
Many thanks to WUF, "Wye not stop cafe" and all.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling, 1 Pike, 5 Other

Reports suggested the brook had been fishing reasonably well before my visit, and I found it quite low and clear. There was little sign of fly life and only a very few rises. I missed a couple of half hearted takes to dry fly and had nothing to wet. Very disappointing day.

Fished the upper Taff from the RSPCA centre up towards Merthyr Town. Lots of midge, ldo's and brook dunns on the water with fish feeding on the surface in every pool. The river looks in great shape since last weeks flood with hardly any algy on the rocks. Managed to catch a 21 inch, 19 inch fish and around two dozen fish up to 1lb on dries and nymph's.

24 Trout

Fresh 14lb cock fish on single hook flying C. Very pleased with my second fish of the season.

1 Salmon

An 11 pound fresh fish from the Cafn on fly this morning.
I also caught a shad on the same fly a few minutes earlier.
Several fish seen, and I lost another, on for only 20 seconds, on Friday.

1 Salmon

8lb cock fish taken on fly

1 Salmon