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Very nice condition 15" BT caught on dry (black sedge). Lots of hatches throughout afternoon but hardly a rise. Access improved but still quite limited.

1 Trout

Intended to fish nearer to home but was detered by the Whit Bank Holiday mega-canoe event, so headed to calmer waters upstream! Had 10 trout to 14" and six OOS grayling to 14" as well. The cold wind of the last three days had abated and there were mini-caddis around mid-morning with fish taken on suitable emergers. On cue shortly after midday, Olive Uprights began to appear, followed by smaller olives later in the afternoon, and fish were taken on Duck's Duns to match the hatches. Later, sipping trout were taken on a shuttlecock midge. There were loads of spinners around during the afternoon (OUs judging by their size) but I didn't stay for spinner fall. After an enjoyable few hours, the prospect of some liquid refreshment in the much awaited evening sun won out!

10 Trout, 6 Grayling

No fish caught but feel that we really should have given conditions.
I must say that I have fished some incredibly beautiful places all over the U.K but this beat has left it's mark on me. Stunning.

I will be back as soon as possible.

Fished using the new "wild stream" permit, a good and efficient service with very helpfull staff. Fished from 1PM to 8PM on a beautiful bright day with some cloud cover; tree cover and shade also helped comfort very spooky trout. A good rise early afternoon, I'm not clever enough to determine what type but I for sure saw some mayflies amongst some smaller flies. Short beat that has benefited from the coppicing work done by the Foundation. Tried a klinkhammer and mayfly to the rises but my casting failed me, one heavy cast and they were spooked. Searched with GBPTN for the remainder of the day, managed one 12" WBT in good condition. Beautiful beat, wished there were more trout in evidence.

1 Trout

Nice beat, slightly over grown top sections, very frustrating day plenty of olives on water but trout only taking them in between gorging on the millions of midges that were on every pool. Tried size 20 f-fly to no success ,dry olive only taking a couple. Put on size 18 black magic sunken under the clouds of midges and took over a dozen. Did not complete the beat as only had limited time.

12 Trout

Warm and sunny conditions and swarms of fly life including spinners was very encouraging but alas not a trout rose all afternoon. I dug out two trout with weighted nymphs and had a few taps that indicated the presence of others.

2 Trout

Abundance of fly life on glorious day. Good hatches of olives late morning produced rising fish all day - most taken on CDC emergers on bottom beat. Mainly juvenile WBT but splattering of grayling as well (prize catch near 2 pounds).

10 Trout, 6 Grayling

Warm bright day with goodish olive hatches. Fenni Fach is a beautiful wild stretch of water, heavily wooded with challenging slippery wading and many overgrown banks. Sporadic rising fish taking olives, I caught five to roughly one and an half pounds in weight, all on small weighted hares ear fished upstream.

5 Trout

Lovely day. Lovely Water. Lovely conditions. Ruined by canoes. Perhaps 250 before lunch? Like fishing in a busy boating lake. Gave up at lunch time where we could bare it no more.

Nothing doing. Plenty of recreational traffic in the forest park (including a major campsite opposite), but none of the fishy kind in the river. The fly water around the footbridge looked decent, if brown-tinted. I guess this is not particularly holding water - you have to be lucky to come across a run of fish. Fell in just as the canoes started, about 12.