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3 caught by burger van

3 Trout

A comedy of errors, lost flies, lost fish, taking a dip in the Dee but fun was had and fish were caught. Gambled on the weather and lucked out with only a 20 minute deluge around lunchtime. River running higher and with pace, so care needed when wading, especially in the town stretch - at least I can confirm the auto inflate on my life jacket works.....cold water, surprise and embarrassment as I took a tumble.

Top end of the beat not as productive as lower down, seemed to attract smaller trout although lost a decent grayling at the bottom end. Explored the lower part of Ddol Issa beat, lovely stretch. Parking at farm but don't forget to pick up a tag at the top of the driveway, where there is a book and tags in the box by the gate. Finished at Bont Bridge run, access from south bank very limited but some good spots accessible from the path on north bank. Felt very fishy, plenty of grayling, lost a cracker at the top of the pool, needed a brief time out to console myself as my droopy bottom lip was impacting my casting!

Ended on a high, getting a good grayling to take a dry - a "barbie" adams, in bright pink! Hadn't seen a rise all day so proves it is always worth a change of tactics.

3 Trout, 7 Grayling

Very difficult to fish from the bank and couldn't find any safe way down to the waters edge due to slight restricted mobility. River was very muddy due to the rain but we still enjoyed the day

4 Trout

Lovely day’s fishing weather bit windy fantastic setting be back again ????????

Sadly I read the river entirely wrong - colour and height took the beat out of sorts. I also had seal return…it looked healthy and well fed - joy.
Three fish showed on the flats and hopefully will show on the bank on my next visit.
My thanks as always to the owners and WUF for a wonderful day.

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Another beat of the Edw today, warmer this morning with a bit of a breeze ....didn't really affect my dry fly fishing for the three hour session this morning ... looked a picture when I tackled up at half eight ......
Lots of low branches just screaming to grab your fly , I'm kinda used to these jungle habitats so a tight cast under them with my six foot, two weight had the fly placed in trouty lies !!!
Some nice tubby ten inch fish today too, in a tally of eight .. with another two that released themselves..... kind Edw fish !!! Lol !!!
Running at a nice height for dry fly work and Savage hits to my chosen dries ..... lovely stuff !! I must say I did see some uprights on the go, but not till later , about eleven , up by the falls ....you just can't beat an Edw fish putting a bend into a little stream outfit just awesome .... love it !!!
Beef cattle still in the field on the walk back, although I didn't see Bully boy , hope he's not in burgers just yet .... he looked a bit of a stud, so I imagine he's got a few years of " work " in him yet !!!
Anyway, another lovely morning, surprisingly first time ever not had a splashy rise in the falls pool, had two fish fifty yards below it .... nowt so strange as trout hey !!! Got out at half eleven.... a cracking three hours, Llynfi or Cammarch next week, weather permitting ....... !!

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