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Good looking beat limited access to fishing.

6 Trout

Sunny & hot. River clear and very low. The largest fish I caught was 8 ounces, all fish were caught in the tail ripples of the pools

6 Trout

The fish were caught in the early to mid afternoon. The conditions were patchy sunshine and cloud. All fish were caught on dull coloured nymphs fished where the riffles reach calmer water.

6 Trout

The river was very low (3in on Brecon gauge) and the weather was hot, sunny, and cloudless all day except for a brief rain-storm in the late afternoon. Very little fly life during the day, and unfortunately we were unable to stay for the late evening rise. The fish were lying low and were inactive for most of the day, but we managed to tempt a few (to 0.75lb) on small weighted PT's and sparsely dressed spider patterns.

7 Trout

Warm and mainly overcast. Fish rising regularly. 2 good condition brown trout caught and released, under 1/2 lb each. Fishing dry fly. Accommodation at Travellers Rest excellent as always, 1/2 mile from beat. The WUF continues to provide an efficient and easy to use service. Thanks.

2 Trout

Greeted by a very friendly and helpful owner. This is a lovely beat with a lot of variety. There were a lot of Mayfly coming off most of the day, but never saw one taken. However, did catch a couple of nice fish in riffles on a Mayfly nymph. Very few fish rising all day and never caught a fish on a dry. Spent a long time trying to get in position to cast to one very big trout in Chain pool only to see it melt away when I was about to cast. However, had more success after switching to Klink and dink and a small copperhead Mary took several fish in the glides including two lovely fish of 2 to 2.5 lbs. Will definitely fish this beat again on my next Welsh trip.

8 Trout

1 Small Brown trout taken on a nymph, Very little surface activity. No fish taken. Nice location, great day out and friendly landowners at Ashford house. Found some of the deep wades to fish in the pools were challenging for relatively inexperienced fly fishers, thoroughly enjoyable though. On-line booking really easy and efficient, thanks.

1 Trout

Wonderful day in perfect conditions. Fish taking klinks and nymphs. A few mayfly about. All fish caught in the streamy sections.

8 Trout

Very cold day, with easterly wind. We picked off the odd fish, as we worked our way up the beat, mostly on dries, then, in the early afternoon at the top run, suddenly substantial numbers of flies appeared on the water, including: olives, sedges, yellow May duns, and a few mayfly. There were fish rising every where, but surprisingly 'picky'. I lost a huge trout which took in 4-6 ins of water. Fly was a sz. 18 March Brown. The fish shot across the river in a cloud of spray! These are the moments that linger in your memory! However we managed to catch 14 trout, one of which was 2.5 lbs, another of 2 lbs, and several of the others were around 1.25 lbs. Many fish lost, but most caught were on dries. Very absorbing fishing!

14 Trout

Weather warm, bright and sunny, the river still carrying just a hint of colour. I walked through the first field but failed to find a place to enter the river after that access improved, this whole beat looks like perfect dry fly flats of varying depth and flow, the wading is relatively easy.
No obvious hatch but I persevered with a dry fly and eventually a few small yellow up wings started to come off but by 2pm I'd managed to rise, miss and loose 10 fish but netted none of them!
A quick coffee break and back to the river. As I sat on the bank tying on a fly a fish rose just off the bank in inches of water right in front of me, I didn't even get up, just flicked my fly out and watched in shock as it was taken, I struck and found myself connected to a surprisingly large fish which when netted was at least 18 inches. No sooner had I released it another good fish rose just up from where I was now standing, I covered it and got an instant take from a very good fish which fought like a tiger resulting in a new PB at well over 2lb and much longer than my 18 inch net! The afternoon from then on was much more successful with 9 trout caught and returned. Thank you WUF for another great day fishing in beautiful surroundings.

9 Trout