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Lovely evening. Didn't start fishing until 6pm. No sightings.

Not quite to plan. Tried to fish "The Baskets"but found an extensive jungle of 12Ft high himalayan balsam. Fought my way to the water and had to wade deep to make a decent cast. Nothing moving.Obliged to retrace my steps in order to get out and then gave another impersonation of a scene from "The African Queen" in order to reach open ground. And it got worse!
Moving to the tail of the long pool I waded out onto a 10" deep glide over large pebbles and, whilst flicking a fly into a smaller pool, fell in, drowned my phone and snapped 7" off the top section of my Hardy fly rod! Oh joy unconfined.
I've fly fished for many years, love the Tywi and though a fishless trip is not a novel experience I would hope that my impression of an inebriated cormorant will be!

1 Trout

only fished for a couple of hours late in the day as very hot

1 Chub

3 Trout, 5 Grayling

With the river low and the temperatures nearing 30 degrees for the start of September we concentrated on fishing early morning and late evening. Some good barbel to 9.5lb although the fish tended to come in short bursts.

5 Barbel, 18 Chub

Very hot and bright
Decided not to fish

Had some business to attend to in Hereford, so I thought on the way back to Rhayader I'd sqeeeeeeeeeeeze in a few hours on the lovely Arrow.....
Got there at half eleven , strewth it was warm ... tackled up the usual small streams outfit ...and a tiny Para Adams .... nothing doing in the faster water ... First two fish surprised me in the first long glide, tight into the side... two slow leisurely gulps of the fly.... lovely .... and gorgeous fish as always ...
Nothing big, and in fact pretty much all the same size in a tally of five ... one was perhaps five inches, the other four maybe eight..... where were the lumps ????? Ha ha its a great stretch for decent brownies here, looking at the returns .... pretty quite activity on the Arrow ..... odd ..!!Bit of sense of adventure is needed !!! Don't wait for a beat to be fished and a return entered , just get out there and give it a go.... wether it's the Cilieni , Senni, Lugg, just give it a go ....get out there !!! I do !!! Lol .....
Anyway a tricky, and to be honest , quiet couple of hours , only really did between the bridges and perhaps a tad more ...... plenty of bullheads under the stones, and two young crayfish seen too ....
Lots of himalayas Balsam.... an angler should do a display of pinks , white and creams at the Chelsea flower show...lol .... thick with it here, eight foot heigh jungle too ...aaarrggghhhh seeds popping everywhere !!!!!
Right ..... onwards to Rhayader, after another cold can of diet coke .... a pleasant wind down on an old favourite ..... Happy days .....

5 Trout

6 Chub