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Wow, been a couple of years since I've been to this old favourite ....Now I live in Rhayader, local ones like the Edw, Ithon and Irfon are more convenient... However, was lovely parking up in the old pull in at eleven bells....Reading 17 degrees on my trucks dash board .... was going to be a hot one !!!
She's certainly hard going !!! If you love assault courses, kneeling casts and bow and Arrow casting, this beats for you !!! If not, get yourself down on the Test, where the only thing to worry about, is stumbling on a molehill on the mown grass banks!!!!! Lol .....
Joking aside tis rewarding catching these stunning fish !! Dries all the way up, as always ...Hot weather, and besides, this callsign doesn't like dredging tungsten cannonballs !! Finesse, etiquette and a well placed dry will get you your response, simple as that !!!! Masses of upwings about, medium olives and Large brook duns .....
Nine beauties to my net, with three of four long range, self released kindly fish... Great fun...
She is low, with lots and lots of trees down..And of course the weir, although still in situ, the flow appears to be going under the structure now !! The other side is now at least a normal river !!! Yaaaaay ?? Are there plans to remove this unsightly structure WUF ... While their doing it, they can remove the huge ash trees across the river, some sixty yards downstream!!! Kill two birds with one stone ....
A lovely session, got out uo by the old weir , thankfully, the storms have knocked a tree and buckled thf three strand barbed wire fence so, now we have an access point.... every cloud has a silver lining hey .Crops are in That big field this year, so no Aberdeen Angus to worry about !!!
Back to one of the other Arrow beats soon .... A cracking dry fly session !!!! Happy days ......

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Cold start to the day! Very clear shallow water. The section up stream from mallhollam bridge has a lot of over hanging trees and dead fall across the river which can make it tricky casting.
Very little/no hatch’s, so dry fly wasn’t an option. I was euro nympthing for most of the morning. I saw maybe 3 or 4 brown trout but they were very “spooky” and I had no luck.

Afternoon started well with nice 10” brownie on first cast on PT nymph, but that was it, or at least the only one hooked. Changed to dries on seeing the very occasional rise & missed a few takes from very fast & probably very small fish. Got out shortly after the fallen trees, now just passable with care.

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In reply to J. A. from Rhayader's question, the huge fallen ash is still across the river and makes for a real obstacle to those of us in our dotage. I've also always wondered how one is expected to get from the weir to the next fishable water about 100m upstream? It's too deep to wade. I've always battled the shoulder high nettles and brambles and fence through the dilapidated factory site. Surely there's a better way?

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river very low, only saw one fish in a few hours.

Arrived very late. Saw one fish rise and managed to catch it which was a great result. Very little water. Beat very challenging in terms of vegetation and access. It is exceedingly over grown with the stream appearing to disappear in places due to the amount of trees that have fallen over it. Lovely stream though with real potential. Will attack again but in higher light levels!

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Just a very quick mooch up on my local beat this morning , only did an hour and a half on the good old Kington beat . She’s low like everywhere to be honest , but I did thermometer dip it just for interest and it was sitting at fourteen degrees …. It’s a shame this pathetic drizzle doesn’t come to decent proper rain …. Come on weather gods stop this faffing around !!!!!! We need four good days of it …….

The fishing was the usual jungle tactics for Kington , tricky going , and two brownies very hard earned on a tiny Parachute Iron Blue , good takes on it too ….. I didnt grapple , and climb over the huge ash tree , and I’ve given up asking if it’s going to be dealt with !!!!! Had to wade all the way back down stream , as there is no other way out !!!! Just a chainsaw step in it would suffice or a cut into it so it passable , as it’s over a very deep pool , and walking around it isn’t an option !!!!! Perhaps that’s why it’s hardly been fished this season , folks reading the reports don’t fancy doing the all arms Commando assault course !!!!!!

Anyway , I realise these things happen , but it’s been there a while now , second season I think ??? Fishing the couple of hundred yards up was good fun , a few fish rising in the heads of pools , and I did have the two that were rising , both about eight inches ……..

Will try the Edw again later in the week , between shifts , something to look forward too , let’s hope a bit of rain over Builth way , to liven that little river up !!!!! A fun quick session on an old favourite , sorted !!!!!!

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Completed all the morning chores I wanted to do in the garden , dog suitably walked , and all the necessary bits and bobs all sorted , this callsign was ready for a quick session on the Arrow ….. drove to the Whittern pull in , and a car was there , a blue focus I think , had no wild streams permit displayed , and I can’t remember having seen it booked up last night to be honest , anyway , did an about turn and headed for the Kington beat , which I hadn’t done for a while anyway ……

Strew she was low too , but there are some nice pools here so tackled up and did the moonwalk under the bridge to the first pool , which I know is generally a banker … Para Iron Blue was my chosen dry , and first cast , bang …….missed him , had another go , splashy take , this time on , great , no monster , but gorgeous red spots as always , only eight inches quickly released …. Onwards ….

The next four were like peas in a pod , all about eight inches , but great takes to the dry , all prospected casting , with some missed ones too , and a better fish I had on for about three seconds !!!! That huge ash tree is still a major nuisance to cross , and it would be over the deepest dam section wouldn’t it …. WUF , can this be chainsawed … I realise it’s all money , but perhaps a section just cut out so it’s passable . You can’t go field side , it’s two metres heigh with brambles , and the other side is too steep …. It’s been here a while now , one has been dealt with further up , that’s was about fifty yards down from the weir , good job done there too !!! I’m presuming maybe Kington angling club cleared it ?????

Anyway , assault course aside , fishing was hard going but still fun , and fish prepared to come up in the deep pools and hammer the dry , so much so I should have doubled the tally really , some really took me by surprise , but was quite happy with five , from a shrunken Arrow …. I did have a break after grappling climbing over that ash tree , flipping stones and catching bullheads in my net …. Took me right back to lazy afternoons when I was a young lad in Morda Brook or in the Cynllaith catching bullheads and minnows there …. Plenty in the Arrow too , and it seemed that most big fly stones lifted carefully there was a bully or two ….. oh hand plenty of caddies , in fact hundreds …….

A pleasant three hours on an old stomping ground , good sport too , don’t you just love a lazy few hours mooching upstream on a Saturday ……. Sorted !!!!!!!

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Fishing upstream from the top bridge from 10am till 4pm windy cold day fly life and fish activity steadily increased as temperature rose around midday,,water level low but fishable producing very quick rises from small fish to dry iron blue adams most succesful. Rises slowed after 2pm but hatch contnued to develope with pleany of different Olives including Mayfly still and some sedges later too,sadly commitments meant could not stay onto a promising evening rise.An Enjoyable day.

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