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11lb salmon on orange fox tail fly at rock pool. Fish returned

Very bright hot day nothing rising but loads of fly life.
Numerous trout and grayling caught on little wet spiders in the riffles. Fish showing in various pools but not interested in anything we could show them.

Highlight of the day a 4lb cock brownie early in the day took a black salmon fly by JP. "Biggest trout off a river in 37 years."

Other highlight a pint in the Bridgend Inn

All fish returned.
Lovely day on a super beat.

A pleasant day. The river is still pushing though a bit, with a touch of colour. Plenty fly hatching - mayfly, yellow may dun, etc. Finished with 8 brown trout, one 9", the rest all 11" - 13". All came to dry fly - large olive klink worked fine. If you could find a rising fish, it didn't seem fussy on pattern.

Good instructions - easy to find. Hot weather had brought on spawning and fish were not in an obliging mood. Some fish seen whilst walking about. Will revisit water again in about 2/3 weeks time.

2 small grayling on mayfly

I love this kind of fishing. I fished the first couple pools and was disappointed at the walk between them - there's not many pools on this beat. This was, however, until I accepted that this is the nature of the Honddu here, and so I started I started flicking the olive klink into every stopper and bit of slack water even if it was an area just the size of a dinner plate. Result was around 15 trout to a 14" bruiser, all taken on the dry. Saw a couple of rises, but the fly in the right place brought fish up from all over the place! Missed loads. I see the angler the day before saw a couple of rises and only had 1 fish - that was nearly me too.

Fished with frends from London, did not see or catch anything, very disappointed to find no indicator post or access steps down to the upper Doghole pools etc.
We wandered around in very hot weather and eventually cut a very dangerous way down ourselves, unfortunatly my frend got a soaking for his troubles, getting out was worse.
If you are running a commercial fishery charging £45 a day, make sure the pools are acessable if you want rods to return.
WUF NOTE: The beat is due for clearance work early June.

My wife and I fished the R. Honddu sharing one rod. Starting at the beat start, fishing a 7' rod #3 weight.
Fished upstream and stoped at the bridge. We landed 1 trout only aprox. 7-8". We started of with 2 spiders on the droppers and beaded GRHE. In total we caught 5 trout wich were below 7".

Nothing moving on the beat between 0930-1130hrs.

5 trouts (1x 50cm)- nymph. Catch & release.