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Managed to grab an evening post work and encouraged to see a heavy fish slosh in the stream as I arrived with river level and clarity excellent. Thus inevitably -apart from an occasional suicidal trout - no action at all until dark when another big fish lunged at the surface and gave me a final derisory sendoff, no doubt mocking my efforts!
Still -worth the effort and anticipation

A pleasant but challenging day. River running fairly high and coloured but fishable. Working hard with deep nymphs all day, managed 2 WBT both around 9ins and 2 Grayling of similar size. A nice beat with very easy wading.

One brown trout, about 35cm caught at the middle planks. One brown trout 25 cm, On the flat middle of the stream. One trout taken on the flat middle of the stream, a 35cm brown trout. All fish released.

Easy to find but parking on the side of the road in a small village so maybe don your thermals before arriving. Another chilly morning, 11C with a weak but cold wind. Had a fishing meltdown in the first section of the beat. Seemed to hook everything but a fish. Didn't see anything move for a couple of hours so turned on my heel and left it for another day.
Chatting with a fishing mate in the evening who rates the Cilieni suggested I fish through the first half of the beat very quickly and concentrate on the top half which has been extensively coppiced and holds a good head of trout. Should have spoken to him the night before!

After a disasterous morning on the Cilieni met up with a pal for a couple of hours on the Honddu. Chilly, grey afternoon. Plenty of water but this trib is characterised by riffles and shallow broken water with precious few fish holding pools. Easy to wade but very tight casting.
Very little hatching but did manage to winkle out 1 wbt of around 9" on an Adams. I suspect the Honddu fishes better when the weather warms up a bit, but then there is the possibility of less water which would be a significant trade off.

Started at 10.30am with one rod trying for a salmon, the other going for trout. No joy with the salmon but a variety of flies kept the trout rising throughout the day with a combined catch of over 30 trout and several oos grayling. Biggest trout was around the 1.75lb mark, with lots over a pound. Emerging olives were the most successful patterns although several fish were also taken on nymph. All fish released.

3 WBT taken in 15 minutes on a Olive Klinkhammer before losing my fly to a tree and realising I'd left my fly box at home!!!!!

Very worthwhile few hours on this little brook. Level was still a bit up on its normal level with a few tree dams holding back considerable "lakes".
Started off with nymphs but changed to dries when I noticed fish taking god knows what off the surface.Opted for black klinkhammer in a size 16 which seemed to work the best.
Had about 16/17 small trout in total best measuring about 8 inch and all in the range 6 - 8 inches. Had 7 trout from one pool. There was a local fishing worms in the EA gauge pool who disappeared when I came along.

2 x salmon 37 inches and 30 inches, on a Flying C. Conditions just about right, water high and clear, warmer day, sunny with occasional cloud. A beautiful silver cock fish first, then a smaller but equally pretty hen from the same spot just an hour later. I guess they are still shuffling upstream. Two more spring salmon both around the 20 pounds mark reported on the same beat during the last week.

Fished 10 - 12.30. No fly. No rises. Three trout on tung-headed GRHE nymph. Very cold last night so maybe needs to settle down and to warm up a little to get things going over the next month or so. Decided to head home and fish the Red Lion water in the afternoon.