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Just a brief session this morning on an old favourite up a tad and running a bit murky when I parked up . Reading 10 degrees on my trucks dash. Considerably cooler than yesterday.... anyway nice to be down on the Hergest beat ..... it seemed confined after having a ball on Craig Goch , Claerwen and Nantymoch over the last two weeks .... some cracking days in the Elan Valley too , with some fab early season sport , happy days !!!

The Edw was up a tad which was a shame I should imagine by Thursday she'll be perfect , there was a good trickling of olives by half eleven , and sedge too ! The party never got going , no rises , in fact it was pretty dour in fairness !!! No rises yet to the easy pickings ....... shame !

Sometimes they do take some pepping up these wild streams , it's easy to rush them , but alas some are slow to get going, unlike the Wye and Usk which have seen some magnificent ldo and march brown hatches , to make top of the water sport excellent !!! I managed two this morning on a single tungsten nymph with a hint of orange in it .... always seems to do well here , nymphs with orange ... here and the Llynfi .. lots of bankside erosion on this beat , which leaves fencing suspended hanging in mid air ... its all bucks and time these days getting it done !!! Britain on its knees, things like this dont get done anymore .... we have enough of a battle with river pollution , I shall step down off my proverbial soap box ...

A fun few hours in the Edw Valley .... its just starting to wake uo now ..... roll on May when Salmo trusts will be scoffing off the top !!! Happy days ......

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Low and slow. Very little moving about. A nibble on a nymph or two. Good little March brown hatch at the end of the day. Fish seemingly unmoved however. Lovely beat to blank on.

I would suggest until substantially more rain, day tickets should not be sold. River too low for fishing ????

River reduced to a trickle. Gave it a couple of hours and managed 2 x wbt, both returned.

Hopefully The Edw can recover over the winter.

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Well , smashed the mowing at silly o’clock, as there was no dew down , then went for a good burn on my mountain bike , and to top of this lovely weekend , thought it rude not to give another of the Edw beats a bash , looked at the website , Hergest was free , so onward to the Edw , again , just to complete the Edw extravaganza !!!!

Got there at midday , and tackled up my usual six foot , two weight , except I fined down the tippet even more , and furled leader on also , just for added turnover , and delicacy , which is what you needed here , as boy was it tricky , but fun at the same time …. Water temperature sitting at 13 degrees , and a lot isn’t workable , even with dry fly , but also a lot is , so it’s swings and roundabouts here at the mo ….
Some folks would look at it at the mo, and say , that’s not fishable at all ,….. but alas it is !!!!

In fact some risers were tricky to say the least , but caught them to a splashy rise to my Parachute Greenwells in the end … managed five feisty brownies between six and ten inches maybe …
Just fished up to the weir , and got out I think just before three …. Cows in the field with young calves , so carried my impromptu mark one nine foot stick , just in case things went Pete Tong !!!! Thankfully they were very sedate this time …. Didn’t even move …. Pheeeeeeeew !

A fun three hours here , had a chat with the farmer on his quad taking sheep down the road …. Lowest he has seen it in years , as he explained it does hold its water very very well , due to its catchment area … a knowledgable chappy and most interested in the fishing too , which is always nice …. A fun few hours here , and three great sessions on three days on one of my favourite small streams , can’t be bad , back to The Ponferosa , and a well earned pint of cider me thinks , sorted !!!!!

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Well for a change , hadn’t been to Hergest for a while , so took a bimble out to there ….. looked like it was to be a warm day as I parked up just over the bridge at nine . Word of warning don’t park in that lovely lay-by over the tight bridge , that is there to allow a turning arc for tractors and big lorries etc etc , so park right at the end of it in the rough grass !!!!!!

Tackled up a small f fly initially , ohhhhhhh river was low when I walked down to the water … I did do a thermometer dip , reading 13 degrees so nice a cool , well , I thought I’m here , let’s give things a blast ……

Some olives , and I’m sure I spotted half a dozen late mayfly too , also some sedge at half eleven , busy busy with insects this morning , had half my trout to risers , and half to prospected dry , either f fly or Para iron blue …..

Actually with stealthy moon walking , fishing was hard going , but had some good sport in the three hours I was there , and managed six beauties to the net , three really nice fish too , maybe ten or eleven inches , lost a few and flumped some cracking rises also …… doooooooh , oh well !!!!!

Horse flies galore , dam things , once they lock on to you it’s a game of letting them settle , and bashing them before they have you !!!! The beef cattle are in the field , looked fairly feisty too , so a brisk walk across that last big field to my truck , kind of like Benny Hill , minus the props !!!!!!!!

Three sightings of kingfishers , very busy up and down , maybe feeding young , nice to see . Did some stone flipping , lots of invertebrates , and two bullheads , so health wise the Edw is looking good . She’s definitely crying out for some decent rain , not this half hearted drizzle we’ve been getting , three or four good solid day would be just the trick . Another cracking few hours on a favourite river, spot on …… back to The Ponderosa for a cool glass of the amber nectar , happy days !!!!

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no fish caught , river very low but a wonderful place to spend the day.

16deg with passing rain showers and distant thunder. Intermittent sunshine. Started at about 1000. No rises seen until about 1300 then very sporadic. A few big mayflies spotted. 3 browns caught on bead head PTN about #16 both from deeper areas and very shallow riffles. Did manage to rise 3 on an Adams but didn’t stick. Also a good take on a PTN that just pricked the fish. Got pretty cold at about 14:30 and fingers wouldn’t work properly so packed it in. Nice day though.
Thanks once again to the Wye and Usk Passport.

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A good catc h for me on a wild stream, especailly in late June and very low water . Perhaps a very cloudy day after a week of hot sunshine helped? All on dry flies, a couple taken from 'likely' spots, mostly though these were steadily rising fish scattered through the long shallow pools. The number of rising fish was exceptional in my experience.

6 Trout

River very low and the day warm, 20deg and mostly cloudless and windless. Began at about 1330 and fished until 1800. Fish caught were mostly in the deeper faster runs and riffles. Due to low water conditions all fish were caught on dry fly. Black Klinkhammer #16, elk hair Caddis #14 and para Adams #16.
Trout between 12cm and 18 cm.
I fished an 8ft rod but ideally one should fish not longer than 7 as mostly in overhanging trees.
Accommodation at The Seven Stars at Aberedw is very pleasant and convenient for fishing this river.
I had a very enjoyable day. Thank you to the Fishing Passport.

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