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Despite a forecast of cloud this was an often bright day with a blustery downstream wind that made dry fly tactics difficult. Hatches were in any case sparse, with a few Yellow May Duns riding the current and swarms of gnats on the upper reaches in the morning, but these were largely ignored.
I got lucky towards the top with a strong trout lying in a nearside stream which took a grey shrimp and was adjudged better than a pound and a half. This was later trumped by a very strong fish on the island section on the middle reaches which took the trailing point fly when a small fish was in play on the dropper and simply whizzed down and across the pool in two bursts and broke me. After lunch one of the smaller pools below the first parking place produced two decent fish but I had little reward from my 'dances with bedrock' going down to the bottom pool. The middle reaches produced a little more sport in the early evening, including one decent trout which let go after a minute or so, but half of the catch today was tiddlers and it was a shame that with the benefit of the previous week's rain Fenni Fach did not have more conducive weather conditions to show more of this beautiful but challenging beat's potential.

10 Trout

No sign of any salmon.

Conditions pretty much perfect, but no fish caught. Many thanks to Simon for his help, need all the help I can get!

Fly fished after dark. No fish caught or heard.

No rising fish; downstream nymphing. Two fish kept.

16 Trout

Fishing for salmon using lures (flies). Couple of trout and a 6lb barbel accidentally caught and released in good condition. No salmon despite many different flies and methods. No salmon seen.

2 Trout, 1 Sea Trout, 1 Barbel

Fishing for salmon using lures (flies) and 2 small trout caught and released. 1 good sized salmon (guess 13-15lb based on sight of fish jumping) hooked and played for approximately 10 minutes on heavy spindle fly but lost when hook came out. Suspicion of a second salmon hitting line a couple of minutes later on heavy black, tube fly but on only for a few seconds.

2 Trout

Day 4 of 4 day trip and what a difference a few degrees on the thermometer will make! The river was rammed with fish and I would estimate I missed as many as I caught. Fish were not huge being mostly in the 6" to 8" range although there were two caught that were notably larger. What a fun day a great way to finish a fantastic 4 day trip fishing @WUFoundation beats. A mention too for St Marys B&B in Hay for a nice, comfortable room with breakfast.

21 Trout

Arrived 9.30am cold ,overcast very windy started at down stream limit with duo set up 3rd cast wbt to sight fly, followed by others missing the fly! Changed to a dry fly. River quite cloudy and did clear as the day progressed however the wind increased, middle to top not fished due to upstream waves! Found fish rising to bo/bwo hatching midday, last fish 14ins grayling all others trout 5--8ins, all fish returned. Will try again when less windy!

7 Trout, 1 Grayling

Tough conditions for a lot of the day (gust downstream wind) but still a very good day on the river. 9 trout netted, 6 on dry fly and the others to upstream spiders. Watched some otters playing and 2 herons which made fishing difficult in some pools but still nice to see.

9 Trout