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5 Kelts (2 lost), 3 Brown Trout, 1 Sea Trout. No signs of fresh fish but obviously loads of kelts in the river. All well mended. All taken on spinning gear. Once again a lovely day at Caradoc. The Sea Trout made my day.

Firstly, a word of warning, please if you do come fishing here, have a look at the track before you drive down it, we spent the first hour organising a tractor to pull the car out.
Following two days of rain the river level was up but not alarmingly so, what did spoil the day was the downstream almost gale force winds, still we carried on with not much luck, one four pound chub and a couple of gudgeon for our days efforts, but that was down to the weather rather than the stretch of water.
On a side note we did see two salmon, one about 8lb and one about the 10lb mark towards Rope pool about half way down the beat !That did cheer us up.
WUF NOTE - the map instructs parking at the end of the gravel track.

Water 0.5m and cold. Fished for trout only and landed 3 decent size fish on the waterhen bloa. Took one at 1lb and returned others. Very sparse hatch.

Beautiful fresh 30lb+ (43inch) caught on home made fly.

14 x trout, 6-12 inches, on spiders. A better than expected result, as the temperature remained around 5 degrees all day with a desperately cold downstream wind. There was quite a heavy large dark olive hatch after lunch, truly the "cold weather" fly, but I didn't see a single fish rise to an adult on the surface. The big fish didn't show, but quite a number around 10-12 inches were prepared to come up to spiders fished in the top 6 inches, so I presume they were intercepting the emerging nymphs. A good day, if chilly.

13 Chub up to 5lb on bread meat corn and pellets.Fished several swims and had bites in all of them.

Very wet start and difficult conditions but within the first hour three smashing chub up to 4lb were landed. Nothing after, but well worth the effort especially as it was my sons first chub ever and he got two! Definitely a venue to go back to.

Very cold and windy river low for time of year, 6 Barbel between us, considering the weather temperature etc we had a good day thanks W+U.

Lovely beat with lots of recent maintance being carried out. The weather was not great but the snow on the black mountains reminded me how cold it was. I did not catch or see any fish which was a shame.

What a change in conditions from last week, cold and wet! fished quite well all morning but no takers. SK was coarse fishing and managed to find some barbel at the bottom of the beat. We ended up with a couple and a bag of chub before the weather got the better of us.