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No luck today, water discolored & swollen by heavy rain the days before. Good fun, but surprised by the amount of litter washed downstream.
Could not find the large oak!

Nice day, after the rain days before - a bit of colour but seemed to suit nymphs. Only fished the morning. Down from the bridge: 3 trout 8-9 ins, 1 grayling 11 ins. 2 kingfishers - heaven! Had a brief chat with the owner from the holiday cottage. Lives in Ripon, near where I come from in N Yorks. Seemed puzzled by my short-line nymphing. Friendly and helpful - thanks for letting us have this lovely place!

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

No Salmon seen or caught but 1 Trout about a pound which was returned from Ty Mawr pool on a spinner and several follows from trout and one lovely chub about 2lb caught on the spinner. Water was very colored but a good height. Tried to fish Rock pool but water to dirty to wade so tried to spin from the bank. Fishing was to difficult due to so much vegetation so couldn't fish it right through.

1 Trout, 1 Chub

Conditions absolutely perfect for spinner and worm. I opted for the latter. On arrival at around 8.30pm, 2 other anglers were just packing up. One had caught a 2.5lber and lost a 4.5lber on spinner. The other had caught 2 trout around a pound, also on spinner.
I loaded a worm and had a good knock first cast. Second cast produced a hard fighting 2.5lbs silver sewin, netted by one of the other anglers. 3 other fish to 4lbs followed in the next hour with several others missed. One fish around 1.5lbs taken home, everything else released.
Fish appeared in the head of the pool with a few larger fish showing including a couple of double figure clonkers. Left happy around 9.45pm after it all went quiet.
Returned at 5am and to a chilly morning and a valley mist. Not good as in my eperience, a mist generally puts the fish down. Had a few knocks, sewin and trout but nothing took enthusiastically. Had the absolute pleasure of fishing with 3 otters right in front of me for half an hour. Beautiful. It seem this last rise has finally brought some fish up river.

4 Sea Trout

Last day of 4 on WUF and the second on this stretch. River was up at least 5 feet and racing through, bringing vast amounts of weed. Decided to give it a go at the top of the stretch, but again weed was going to be a problem. Just as we started setting up, Colin arrived and suggested that the swims we had chosen would be very difficult and he directed us to two pegs closer to the bend where the current was less and there was some slack water. Big thank you to Colin. Managed 4 barbel in the first hour and another 6 spread out during the day. Largest 7lb 13oz. Had to finish at 6pm to travel home, but with the water dropping back and the weed flow a little less, we would have expected further fish into the evening. All fish taken on either single or double 12mm pellet.

10 Barbel, 1 Chub

Another blank day on this lovely looking stretch of water. Lots of insect activity but no sign of any fish.

Tricky conditions to start with - lots of weed coming down made fishing difficult. It was my first time on this beat so was fishing somewhat blind. I later found some barbel and caught well catching 8 barbel between 3 and 8 lbs - all on pellet. Fished between 3pm and 8pm.

8 Barbel, 1 Chub, 2 Other

River unfishable downstream on previoulsy booked beat so a quick stop at the WUF office got us a day at Dolgau. Immaculately maintained beat with some lovely salmon pools. Very kind and helpful owner. No sign of any fish and water began to colour up as we arrived.

The bottom half of this stretch is nice to fish, the top half with a bit of rain, take a lifejacket.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Day 3 of 4 the WUF. Started fishing at around 10:30am on what looked like a perfect river. 6 chub, 1 barbel and 2 lost barbel in the first half hour (all on pellet) suggested a bumper day, but then the river started to rise rapidly. Managed another 3 barbel in the next hour before the amount of weed in the faster water made the swims unfishable and forced us to move. Again another day of heavy rain. Moved to the top of the stretch and managed 1 further barbel late in the evening, but the weed made life difficult.

5 Barbel, 7 Chub