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Great day. The lower Edw offers a good variety of pools. The water quality was very good. A bit too early for the May fly. Just returned the one small brown trout from a brown Klinkhammer.

1 Trout

arrived at 1.30.....flies hatching fish jumping....fish v.selective all 4 trout on size 18 parachute Adams ....missed a bunch!

4 Trout

.......arrived at 1.30 after a unproductive morning on the Dulas middle beat....flies hatching fish jumping but v. selective....determined to fish dry fly and took 4 small fish on various size 18 olive patterns. Beautiful now the spring colours are appearing! Anybody new to this beat should be aware that the bedrock is super slippery when wading...take care,nearly came a cropper couple of times!

4 Trout

2 Trout

Woke up at The Hundred House Inn to covering of snow. Air temp 1 degree. Frustrating couple of hours due to my ineptitude with flies up trees but enjoyed it nonetheless. As yesterday plenty of fast flowing water but no signs of fly life or fish life. One day I will catch a trout in one of the wild stream beats! But not today. Easier walking and easier casting than on Edw Hundred yesterday. An enjoyable couple of days holiday.

Tested the contents of my fly boxes today! River in good flow and slightly coloured, range of flies and bugs on the water. Trout were rising in some pools and deep runs but not in others. It also turned out they were being very choosy, and were picking off different food items in each pool. After I while I twigged that I had to try various dries/paras to find the 'right' one in each pool, and sometimes failed - they either ignored everything or ducked out after having a look. Did find the right fly occasionally to land 7 at 7" to 10". On sedge or tiny black fly or a pale olive - really enjoyed this, even though I only managed half the beat.

7 Trout

Pretty much my last fish of what has been quite a skinny season. Aberedw is like my death row last request beat! Partly because this is where I learnt to small stream dry fly fish and partly because it offers pool after pool of interesting and exciting angling with a chance on every cast.
Was rewarded with 11 wbt all to dries - anything sedgy worked. Some fin perfect 9"-12" specimens along with the feisty 6 inchers. Made my way up to the additional 700 or so yards this beat offers but was welcomed by an almighty downpour. The gorge at the bottom of the beat turned purple and reminiscent of Middle Earth. A few casts were rewarded with an angry 9" trout but rain stopped play.
Great day, every angler needs a death row beat!

11 Trout

First time on this stream and a lovely afternoon's fishing. Half a dozen trout to 10". Very few rising and all fish came to a bead head PTN.

6 Trout

3 Trout

A very quick stop off - 1.5 hours fishing in very bright conditions middle of day, lower stretch only. No fly hatches, pools clear and full of small spooky fish. Landed 4 x trout 8 to 10 inch and missed a few. 4 x salmon parr as well. All on nymph below klinkhammer. Unlike some other wild stream beats the fish here almost always prefer nymphs.

4 Trout, 4 Other