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Nice, quite clear water. Most of bites happened from half an hour before the sunset to an hour after.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Half days fishing in bright sunny windy conditions just one take didn't land the fish very quiet no activity.

Bank fly from south east bank and west of dam. Intermediate line various wet flies no luck!

Fished from 11.30am to 6.15pm. Water temp 5.5c, air temp 15c, bright sunny day, wind SW, just a tinge of colour in the water. All fish taken on a hair-rig bunch of red maggots with halibut feeder from The Barr & Froth Hole.
Only got to fish the field adjacent to the playing field. Will have to explore the field beyond the woods next time. What a start to the weekend, onto Sugwas Court tomorrow.

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

Not our usual success apparently the river had some snow melt.... 1 barbel only. The salmon anglers had a 15 pound sea liced salmon opposite very friendly bunch! We enjoyed our day thanks...

River was running clear, so decided to fish for chub. Bright sunny day only had 2 chub between us on cheese paste.

2 Chub

Extremely slow fishing. One rod maggots, two chub, one rod pellet, one chub. Lost a barbel late on. River was in fine trim but a little concerned there were no small dace?
Fished Kerne Bridge next day was even slower. So all told disappointing two days fishing.

3 Chub

If anyone wishing to fish MTAA/merthyr Tydfil angling association stretches of the upper river Taff and would like information on access points to the river and how the river is fishing please feel free to email me on daniel.1986@live.co.uk

10.30am 05/13/2015
River Wye Ross area.
21.5lbs fresh, short and deep. Weighed and witnessed
Devon minnow

1 Salmon

2 x trout 10 - 15 inches, Waterhen Bloa. Another rather cold day, certainly colder than the weatherman promised. Nothing at all until about 12.30 when a very sparse hatch of large dark olives began. I think I had counted only a dozen or so by 2.30pm when they stopped. One rising fish seen, in a place I couldn't reach. And just three takes all through the same period on spiders. Two resulted in fish. And the third came viciously out of the blue while I was wool-gathering, looking around and thinking what an attractive estate Penpont is...and broke the leader, I am afraid to say. It's been a while since I fished Penpont early season, which tends to leave me feeling I have earned the sort of comments which used to appear on school reports. You know - "could do better", "need to try harder" etc. I might have done better with nymphs, but it's somehow more attractive to try to follow the hatch. An interesting day and no doubt things will get easier as the water warms.

2 Trout