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Nil return. Fly fishing only.

Small brown trout on fly. Returned fish. Undersize.

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Fished for a few hours in the afternoon into the early evening. Despite a few fish rising they were uncoperative. Caught one of around a pound on a Grey Duster.

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All fish caught on dry fly and returned (as they were undersized).

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I was teaching my son to fish - none caught but a few fish moving and wonderful setting with a light wind. One other fisherman, who encouraged him to keep going and build his experience. So a really worthwhile day as part of a couple of days' camping. My first time back at the reservoir since my own fishing there in the late 1970s, hope to come back sooner!

The previous day had been spent on the middle Usk with a salmon hooked and lost early on. This visit to Taybont was a response to the fairly thick look of the river at Glangrwyney after breakfast (though one Crickhowell member was fishing the fly there). The lake looked good from the road with a steady to fresh wind coming up from the dam end under good cloud cover. Despite a modest succession of fish raised, pricked, hooked and lost - to dries or a small hackled middle dropper - finally all went well with a handsome cock fish net weighed at 2lb 11oz. It was worth the BH traffic home. On its day what a place.

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Three brown trout, 9", 10" and a superb fish of 18", impossible to tell if the latter was a grown on stock fish from 2014 or completely wild, but either way an indication that the water supports trout to rival those in the Usk itself. Very windy, blowing down towards the dam, so fishing the right bank I was restricted to the more sheltered bays where the wind didn't push the fly line back around my head. As a consequence I fished heavier than I would have preferred with a 7wt ghost tip, GRHE gold head, Diawl Bach on the mid dropper and orange hopper on the top. One fish on each with the best to the Diawl Bach. A great way to spend a short afternoon and worth a whole day next time.

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Washed Off from The Breaconshire (no policy so wasted the opportunity) with water the colour of diluted chocolate.
Switched to Talybont Reservoir and the high winds and driving rain made it very hard to be enthusiastic.
Couple of fish caught after much thrashing of water and gnashing of teeth. Middle of summer was not like this in the old days (as I recall). Global warming needs to hurry up I think.

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