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Second day on Ty-Newydd. Frustratingly the wind had picked up from the day before and made the fishing difficult throughout. Thankfully however, it was an upstream wind so casting wasn't an issue. The fishing was harder than the day before but I ended up with 10 Trout and 7 OOS Grayling. Lost two good fish, one of which was a nice Trout around 1.5lb - 2lb. My last fish made up for it, walked downstream and spotted a number of rises occurring repeatedly in a flat glide. After an initial Trout around 9 inches, I managed to get another one to take and after a strong fight I netted a lovely brownie which was around 1.25-1.5lb. Great day again, many thanks.

Few rising fish but with a variety of deep and shallow fast runs and long wide pools - lots to explore. Caught 10 plus trout 8" - 12" and many smaller fish, on small green nymph and a variety of small green or black dry flies. Plenty of sedge activity and a small number of yellow mayfly but neither (or my imitations) triggering any attention from the fish.

1 brown trout, 1 lb caught on a dry olive, late evening rise, not much else rising.

5 wbt to 12 inches, all returned, lost a better fish, most on ptn under brown klink, we need some rain! Fantastic place to spend the afternoon.

4 trout up to 10 ins.

2 x trout 6-8 inches. I was lucky to get those, because I confess I made a real mess of this one. My advice would be to avoid doing what I did, which was to try to fish it with a chilly half gale blowing across the fields. There is no shelter, because the brook is not sunk far below ground level so the wind just blusters away. Holding the brim of my hat down with my left hand I was trying to cast the fly some distance up the narrow channel with my right and failing miserably. Having stated that, the stream is stuffed with trout - that much became plain after proceeding up it with polarised glasses as I spooked one after another. Lots of 10/11 inch fish. It's a bit like a Cotswold stream, upper Coln maybe, with a nice bed of clean gravel and sumptuous water weed. I'll be back, but hopefully next time on a nice, warm, still afternoon with fish rising all the way up ...

1 Brown released, nice fish 15½"!. Very few fish seen, most fish in top section of beat. Water level low.

Tough day but enjoyable - blustery conditions and bright skies meant that no fish seen rising. However the fish were there, 6 trout to 1/2 - 1 1/2 lbs all caught on copper head PTN. One taken for the table - others returned.

1 brown trout (C&R) - 38cm (15") taken on black gnat. Very few fish seen on this beat. Only spotted fish in top section of beat. Water level low. Bright sunny day, strong NE winds.

Very bright and with a gale gusting downstream! No response to nymphs during the afternoon but sedge were hatching and in the evening there were sporadic rises in all the large pools. Had several responses to a Royal Wulff but nothing that stuck - probably because I was struggling to present the fly well in the gusty wind. Lovely stretch and a good day out all the same.