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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.

A mild and sunny day. Fished all afternoon going through the fly box with drys and nymphs but with only 2 takes to small black gnats. A stark contrast to Friday's fishing in Abergavenny on a wild blowy day when the fish were savagely taking mayflys and large olives.

A distinct change in the weather overnight. Sunny, warmer and, most importantly, the wind had dropped. Fenni Fach is a beautiful beat, but never easy fishing. Water low and very clear, which made the wading much more manageable. Steady hatch throughout the day, but fish activity was sporadic, concentrated around lunchtime. Of the trout caught, 4 were very good fish in the 1.25 - 1.5 lb range. 2 to heavy nymph fished deep at head of pools; 2 to klinkhammer towards the tail.

7 Trout

Fished from 4 to 7pm. Lots of fly life - mostly olives, midges and a few yellow may duns - but not many fish rising. Found some coming to the surface in the Lower Craiglyn Pool and had a couple of small trout there to a cdc olive. Missed quite a few other takes, mostly on klinkhammer and nymph before ending with a superb 2lb 4oz (weighed in net) out of season grayling on a nymph from the tail of Llandiro Pool.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

A difficult day with very cold water and bright sun, there were a couple of hatches during the day with a reasonable amount of olives and sedges,very few mayfly. There was little in the way of rising fish.
The river has been quite scoured by flooding since last year and I found that previously wadeable areas were a bit too risky.
Fished with an F fly to catch the fish caught, tried a GRHE nymph but to no avail, will be back next week, hopefully to find the trout are feeding well.

2 Trout