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Fished the afternoon to mid-evening. Following what has proved to be a very rare event so far this season, the river was up and coloured after Thursday's rain (but cleared somewhat after 6p.m. to permit some safer wading in the tail of the top section). Pretty windy, as usual this month, and not too much fly about apart from a few yellow mays throughout the afternoon and into the evening, although seemingly too few for fish to be interested in real or artificial YM emergers. Some E. danica mayfly from late afternoon, and more fly in the evening including what appeared to be some pale wateries/spurwings, and BWOS and sherry spinners - but fish showed little enthusiasm to rise - basically just a few oncers. Ten trout to 12 inches and five grayling to 13" taken on flashback HE nymph, super pupa, reed smut and a larger black F Fly. Oh and one shad of about 1.5lb on the nymph! Please Mr Weatherman, help the gardeners, farmers and fisherman and bring on some real rain ASAP and lots of it!

19 Rainbows including 2 Blues all caught on the fly. A variety of methods tried during the day all successful including Nymphs, Buzzers, Boobies and very big damsels were particularly good. Overnight accomodation at the White House Country Inn at Sennybridge. Very comfortable good food and a very good breakfast which set us up for the rest of the day. 15 minute drive to the lake. Checked by Rangers during the day with paperwork in order. We had a very good day and will be going again

Fantastic day with 11 WBT to the net, from 6 to 12 inches. Good fly hatches from midday onwards once the conditions warmed up a little. Most fish taken in the riffles on dries, but 3 fish taken on the flats using stealth tactics. Fished under the guidance of Gareth Lewis - an excellent local guide who knows these waters very well. I learned a huge amount during the session. Highly recommended.

4 fish all on BWO biggest 10" a lovely shock! Best fishing of the week last day of hols.

18 Brown trout and 10 salmon par between us caught mostly on small bead head nymph. Very little happening on the surface, although there was a good hatch during the evening. A marquee was set up for a wedding reception on Saturday, with floodlights set up to light up the river and trees, stunning.
Glanusk is such a beautiful location to spend a day fishing, and the booking process was as easy as usual

4 trout up to 10inches. Very pleasant day but only spasmodic rises. Caught on olive and yellow klinkhammers. A few mayfly showing but the fish did not seem interested in them. Also in one area alot of dace rising.

Fantastic day with 11 WBT to the net, from 6 to 12 inches. Good fly hatches from midday onwards once the conditions warmed up a little. Most fish taken in the riffles on dries, but 3 fish taken on the flats using stealth tactics. Fished under the guidance of Gareth Lewis - an excellent local guide who knows these waters very well. I learned a huge amount during the session. Highly recommended.

Six trout up to 9", all taken on a #14 Partidge & Orange on a dropper, all returned of course. They were not interested in the nymph on the point. The very strong downsteam wind today almost drove me to distraction & so, upstream dry was a nightmare & I gave up on that. As the wind was still very strong early evening & little was coming off the water, I called it a day around 6.30PM

Dear W&U,

Fishing at Glanusk on Thursday was difficult with very windy/cold conditions and heavy showers coupled with the river as low as I have ever fished it. That said, 9 brown trout were caught ranging from 9" to 17/18" on both nymph and dry. As always, no matter what the weather, the W&U Foundation Fishing will bring me back to Wales time and time again.

Many thanks to the staff for your time, advice and politeness.

Kind regards

S

Caught 4 trout to 7". Very difficult day with strong winds and lots of rain as low pressure came through. No steady rises at all, and very small hatch if any. Dry fly was impossible. Most success came from size 14 gold head nymph on point with a same size brown pennel type wet fly fished across and down to the odd rise and searching the water systematically.