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7 Trout

Perfect fishing conditions, so no excuses. A lively hour around lunch time saw many decent sized fish rising, most of them too crafty for me, but lots of fun. Mainly stuck to the Ashford Bend. Wonderfully peaceful, plenty of bird life and a delight to be on the river.

A quiet day, with only a smattering of desultory rises to something very small (I think). Waited to see if there would be an evening rise, which there wasn't much (and the rain was starting), but the day was redeemed by a lovely 19 inch, 2.5+ lb fish, which took a small dun at 8.15pm. She was in shallow water near-in and I've been trying to get her for several years...

1 Trout

With the water level at capacity fishable bank stretches were at a premium, a situation not helped by the unchecked growth on the west bank towards the head of the lake, a once excellent area now rapidly becoming a jungle. Here in mid-afternoon while there was a bit of decent, reachable ripple for a short while I connected with a deep-bodied 18" hen fish following a much smaller capture in a flat calm at midday on the short fishable part of the far bank. Before teatime the breeze had slackened and it never returned! The big new house high on the east bank looks impressive. Do they offer B&B?

2 Trout

A short but enjoyable session on Sunday morning for around 2 hours. One lovely brown trout caught and released on a PTN to make up for an earlier miss.

1 Trout

4 Trout

Did not fish - the BBC weather forecast for Talybont was heavy rain for several hours overnight, and then thunderstorms for half the day which looked very dangerous as well as unfishable. So I did not risk heading up from Devon and booked Dany Y Parc for the next day instead. Turns out I could have fished Ashford House after all though as apparently neither the heavy rain nor thunderstorms materialised! Will have to stop using the BBC weather forecasts as they have been absolutely hopeless for the Brecon Beacons recently - also very wrong for the next day predicting lots of light rain but there was not a drop. Still, Dan Y Parc fished very well so all's well that ends well!

Interestingly nothing takes in the pools I’d had success in yesterday but only caught in new pools. Maybe they take longer than a day to recover one disturbed?

2 Trout

I did not keep tabs on what my friends or I caught, and am practising for the qualifiers. It fished tougher than on the Saturday.

20 Trout

No salmon seen. 2 trout caught on salmon flies, returned. 1 of which was approx. 2lb.

2 Trout