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Just a quick shimmy between the brook entrance into the Edw and the Bridge this afternoon.... been hectic with taking clients out on the reservoirs and rivers , so after some fitness this morning was nice to bimble off and park up at two by the bridge ..... Great fun as always here .......
She did seem a bit messy to be honest, a good winter haircut is in order I think here.... and I only fished to the bridge , finishing today at quarter past four ....
Tiny Para dries getting smashed... two goooooooood fish in the tally today well over twelve inches , lovely scrap on the six foot rod ...
Tis a beat you need to be careful on and wade carefully on that bedrock but the tout do love the plunge pools and a well presented dry is deadly here .... even in the slow deep glides they seem prepared to smash it !!! A lively couple of hours ... pretty hectic to be fair and great sport ... went sort of overcast for an hour but still hot .... I think about 21 degrees today.... river does need a splash of rain ... Thoroughly enjoyed the session .... off out with two clients again in a couple of days in the Elan Valley .... can't wait ....
Another fun afternoon on the Edw , sorted .... back to The Ponderosa dekit and a scoop at The Crown In town I think ..... just to round off a nice day !!!!

11 Trout

Fished up stream from the bridge this afternoon.
One or two riser’s seen but didn’t seem to want a dry so fished Tenkara and fish taking just under the surface.

4 Trout

Decidedly tough today ....at a nice height at Cregrina .... personally I like it lower ..that bedrock there is bloody aweful in fairness ... and takes no prisoners ,even with tungsten studs on your boots !! Bowled up about two .... 12 degrees in my truck... lots of insect life , ldos and sedge , but no rises seen in the two hour session here .....not one , zilch !!!!
Two small trout , both about six inches on a tiny silver beaded ptn ..... shame nothing looking up yet, mind you, a coooooool night in Rhayader , about 1 degrees ... so we are having odd weather just lately !!
Hopefully some decent warm weather inbound , kick in these wild streams .... they seem very late this year ... thankfully the Elan Valley is two mins up the road for me .......
Still a nice couple of hours ..... hopefully next time I'm here , mid May they've got the periscope up, and are feeding on the top ..... when the Edws on form, its an absolute delight !!! Homeward bound and a Baileys coffee to warm up !!! Lovely job !!!

2 Trout

much like the crai but a bit deeper and just the right amount of colour , olives of after lunch and with a gold bead grhe taken in the white water were it drops into a basin ,

2 Trout

Down to one of my favourites this morning , the lovely little Edw .... and boy she was a bit low when I parked up ... did contemplate driving on to Hergest but I wanted a challenge and it's a while since I've fished this one so tackled up had a chat with the farmer on his quad , at the field entrance ........ he did say the rain had freshened up the river and was running a bit better .... he was most interested in the wild streams ... good to see ....any way on to the fishing!!

Opted for a Para Greenwells initially which had the desired effect ... good takes to it ... also fished a D.H.E. some olives about and mayflies from half eleven .... a mix of fish this morning ranging from six to eleven inches ... the usual handsome Edw chaps ! And feisty too .....

A lot of low water so I only fished up to the bridge , a fun two and a half hours and warming up quick when I got out and clambered up to the parking spot for a well earned cold diet coke out of my cool bag !!!! Seven crackers and a few missed made for a fun albeit quick morning....... jobs at home to get done while this cracking weather lasts ! Perhaps try an early one on the Arrow at the weekend .... Happy days !!!!!

7 Trout

Difficult to access, lots of trees down. Foulhooked a minnow, apart from that nothing.

Sunny but cold day with water quite low.
4 trout on #18 drab nymph from the deeper pools.

4 Trout

8 degrees this morning, much warmer than the hard frosts from the two nights before. River very low and clear. Weather dry and overcast. No action all day. Saw one fish upstream of the bridge which promptly spooked as my flies drifted passed. Sheep very chatty. First time on a wild stream, so lack of success probably due to a combination of challenging conditions and inexperience.

River very low. First time on this beat. The weather was wet and windy with almost no insects coming off. Very tricky fishing: river impassable in some places near the top of the beat. Managed a few small trout on a dry plus one better one from the pool by the farm just above Cregrina Bridge.

6 Trout

By a fair margin the most difficult stream I have ever fished, made harder still by the fact that two trees have fallen down across it, only one of which I could limbo under. Unfortunately this particular stream isn’t one you can get out of very easily (or at all) so I just had to Wade back down the river. Despite all that I plan to return (with machete and compass!) another time as it is a lovely tributary and I ought to have caught more than the one I managed. I had a wading staff and waders with felt soles and still managed to fall in twice.

1 Trout