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A beautiful day in stunning surroundings. Trout ultra spooky with one small fish to hand and a better one that came adrift.

1 Trout

A short after lunch session, odd fish seen but none tempted to the fly.

Blanked. Hot sunny day, gin clear water. Fished from 0930 till 1600, despite a profusion of fly life (yellow mays, mayflies, olives in a range of sizes and a lot of hawthorns) I only found three rising fish, spooked two and hooked one for it to come off shortly after. Tried prospecting with a dry, the duo and upstream nymphing with a variety of weighted patterns to no avail. Did see a couple of cormorants that might have spooked the fish.

Stunning wild stretches of water with heavily wooded banks and waterfalls. Bluebells and flowers blooming and perhaps one of the most beautiful bucolic settings I have had the pleasure of seeing olives out in force, fooled some on an adams which they seemed to prefer to my olive patterns. 7 trout caught, 3 on dries and 4 on nymphs, best fish was probably over 2lbs and 5 of the 7 were better than a pound.

7 Trout

1 trout of 11" on a dry fly and 1 grayling on a nymph. A few may flies about but very few fish rising.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Excellent system which was new to us. Dai, thanks for help and Advice.

Went out with excellent Guide Chris Price to discover the secrets of Welsh River Fishing. Thank you. Dries and Nymph under dry fly "indicator".

Three lovely fish but the very bright sun in the afternoon effected a retirement to the the pub.

3 Trout

Couple of hours in the evening on the upper section of the beat. Fish rising in all the pools, although not much in the way of olives hatching. Swarms of midge, or possibly caenis about, so suspect this is what the trout were feeding on. One 10" WBT to hand and a number of missed solid takes.

Confronted by the farmer on the true left bank just below the Bridge Inn,indicating that the river was private property and that he had no agreement with anyone allowing fishing. I tried to explain that I was fishing under WUF permit, and had no knowledge that any of the beat had restricted water. To my knowledge it was double all the way between the Lower Escley bridge at Sunny Farm and the Bridge.
Anyway, I promptly stopped fishing and retired to the campsite at Bridge Inn somewhat irritated/disgruntled. Would appreciate it if someone could follow this up.

1 Trout

Two brown trout caught and taken from Farm Pool. The first was on an olive dun. The second on a black gnat. A great day fishing.

2 Trout

The day was very sunny. Nice beat.

Fish caught on spinner and worm.

4 Trout