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The fishing at Talybont Reservoir is hard going. Did manage one small fish about 9 inches long after about five hours effort. Fish caught on a black muddler. Conditions seemed perfect but that was the only fish I touched. Having said that I did see a very big fish (2.5 - 3lbs) cruising the margins which was the highlight of the day. Beautiful surroundings and would visit again.

1 Trout

River low and gin clear making conditions difficult. Most of the chub came to float fished meat. The barbel were taken on feeder with pellet.

4 Barbel, 15 Chub

12 Trout, 5 Grayling

Nymph and wet fly. Clear, low water. Mostly small fish. Biggest grayling 26cm.

15 Trout, 2 Grayling

River very low. 2 barbel to 7.5lb and a big fat chub just over 5lb, all on pellet. Some nice perch on spinner to 2lb. Sunday was too bright. Managed 1 barbel and some more perch spinning again. River needs rain.

River level low, water fairly clear. 2 fish caught one small trout and one small perch both released.

1 Trout, 1 Other

River low. 3 x Chub and 1 x Eel. Taken on pellet and luncheon meat.

3 Chub, 1 Other

1 barbel on pellet end of day. 2 small chub also on pellet.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Tough day with very low water and excess of canoes. Promising start with excellent 5lb chub from Legg Meadow but remainder of the day only produced a very small barbel, chublet and an eel. Fully endorse positive comments about the Ferndale B&B nearby.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

6 x trout 6-8 inches, Rusty Klinkhammer. Not such a good plan, today's early morning trip. Rain before and after dawn produced dripping steamy humidity on the forest floor by the stream. So dark and warm was the morning, it felt like a Florida swamp at the bottom of the Cannop valley. No alligators or water mocassins, but plenty of mosquitoes were apparent. Late September is not supposed to be like this. My main problem was being unable to see the dry fly because my glasses were constantly misting up. Absolutely no chance of seeing the dry fly without my glasses. So I blundered about, getting steadily more hot and bothered. The ones I did catch were mostly hooked as I began the back cast, having totally missed the fact that the fly had gone under.

6 Trout