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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 ......

2 Trout

12 brown trout in the 4-10 inch range. River seems a good depth at the moment but could see why it would be difficult in summer and the water level is lower. Didn't see any rises but nymphing the pools and riffles seemed to work.

12 Trout

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Not even a bite. Probably on the wrong side of the reservoir after the restocking on Thursday.

Not even a single bite. The second time my grandson has come with me but he is not put off and determined to catch rainbow trout next time. Lol

A nice day with water levels just right with the clarity good . Started up at the rocks but nothing doing . Bumped into another feller who informed me he had one and showed me a nice pic of a bar of silver he had earlier . Well done on him .

Couple of trout though .

2 Trout

I fished the South end and had an early fish to a red cruncher. Lovely brownie just under a lb. Sadly that was my only fish although I had a take late on,on a buzzer. I fished nymphs and buzzer all day packed up about 1715. Lovely day and some much welcome advice from friendly local anglers helped. Beautiful venue. Definitely be back.

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Great hatch but absolutely no trout seen all day!!

A bit of apathy set in this morning after checking the Llanstephan gauge, still bit high at 2’5”, but as the river seems to be clearing more quickly now after successive spates, I stirred myself , got in the car, and was fishing shortly after 10.00. I had only been fishing 20 minutes or so when the line went solid and I knew I was into a decent sized springer.
The hen fish, a shade over 36”, and with a noticeable deformity, ( or old injury), on the gill cover, eventually made the net and stayed only briefly to unhook and photo before swimming off strongly after a short rest.
Caught on a small Pearly Tosh tube fished on T14.
As a small bonus, a grayling, pushing 2 1/2 lb took the same fly at the bottom of the beat later on. Where was he when I was trying to catch him in January and February?

1 Salmon, 1 Grayling

3 Trout