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3 feisty trout all less than 9" put back. Splendid small stream fishing with the usual quota of flies lost to the trees. Great to fish here when the main rivers are in spate. Lots of mayfly in the afternoon.

Cock, 27.5lbs (40"). Bridge Pool, Glan yr Afon.
Not particularly fresh, in perhaps a month. Disease mark on top of head. Very tough fight. Photo to follow. Spinning, Toby, 21.15hrs

No salmon caught or seen. However one sea trout approx. 1lb caught on a Silver Wilkinson. The river was settling in to very good condition by the time I left at 7pm.
During the day I observed two men spinning illegally from the left bank just above the Glan-y-Cafn stretch; one of them looked like an opportunist poacher type and the other was wearing waders and had proper equipment. When he saw me sitting on the bank opposite him he moved off downstream, to the next beat below.
WUF Note: Please report any illegal activity to the EA on their incident number: 0800 80 70 60

Wash-off day declared for Sunday, however I did turn up just in case. Had a good look around.
A note for those to fish following my visit. The rough 'track' from Lady Alexander's pool up to the top of the beat passes along the bottom of a high bank. In last Friday's storm 4 or 5 good sized trees have fallen from this bank toward the river making passage to the top a huge obstacle course and extremely hard going.
This will need some chainsaw work to clear. W&UF notified already.

Two browns on dry 6-8 ins. Raised 7. River recovering after flood.

Caught 5 WBT all on a size 16 greenwells glory, quite a few mayfly fluttering about and floating down the river but were seemingly totally ignored by the trout.

Water very coloured from the previous few days of rain. Plenty fly life about but no fish seen rising to naturals. All fish taken on PTN copper head. 3 fish to hand and one further lost. circa 5"-10". All released. One rise to Elk & CDC but missed. Fished from 11am to 4pm.

6 rainbow trout caught on worm.

6 rainbow trout caught on worm.

Had 6 Brownies - 2 around 6" the rest around 8" to 12". 5 caught on Tungsten bead nymph (hares ear and red holo rib).
One caught on a balloon caddis.
Plenty of Mayfly coming off but nothing feeding on them.
Water still coloured after the rain made for hard work.