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Five small (6-9 inch) wild brown trout caught and all returned alive and well.

One of the only places fishable after the Friday deluge experienced in Mid-Wales. As wild and beautiful as ever with the usual stamp of wild brownie willing to take a small dry or nymph.

Gave myself 7 hours to get up (climb) to the top and even that was pushing it. I think I've almost got the route back to the car sorted out after a couple of previous 'adventures'!

35+ trout up to 10"...report and a few pics posted on blog: micksflyfishingdiary.blogspot.com

1 Barbel & 2 Chub. River rising and lots of weed.

Fished from 4.30 in the afternoon at the 'new swim' in Legg Meadow, casting to the far bank by the hole in the willows. A fantastic late afternoon's fishing including 3 chub between 5lbs and 7lbs and 5 barbel of 8,9,11,12 and 12.5lbs.

Beautiful breezy day, Chough's and Lark's providing the background noise and a low flying Red Kite overlooking the proceedings. Not many fish on the rise but 10 trout taken. Stunning place.

Our eventful weekend followed on from our van puncture adventure yesterday with one of number crying "where's my seat?" as he was unloading his gear from the van! It soon dawned that the aforementioned seat had, in all probability, been left at Sugwas yesterday! After a short debate two thoroughly cheesed off anglers set off on the 30 minute drive back to Sugwas in the forlorn hope of recovering the seat. Amazingly the seat was exactly where it had been left - laying in the grass along with the rod, landing net and umberella that the silly b****r had also forgotten!!! Amazing as it was that the gear hadn't been nicked it was even more incredible that it hadn't been trampled to dust by the large herd of very inquisitive cattle in the field!

Unfortunately the "Carry On Up The River" performance above was the only significant event of the day as we had only a single chub between us despite our best efforts. I've never seen the river as clear at Whitehouse with large areas of the riverbed visible even at the top end of the beat. This coupled with the bright conditions sealed our fate I'm sure for the majority of the day but even when the clouds came over and it got later, nothing materialised. Again, one of those days!

3no in total all brown trout

I arrived at 2 pm and after stopping to chat to a fellow angler in the first field I headed all the way upstream to the Salmon croy only to find it had been taken over by a canoe stag party dressed as Bananas and using it as a dance floor/sun deck, pumping music, heavy drinking and diving into the river sent me back downstream and I settled into a swim to fish between swathes of weed, no bites for 2 hours had me reeling in and having a siesta.
I moved back to the deeper water around 6 pm and baited and waited and waited, action came at 8pm in the form an 8.6lb barbel and that was it, a few plucks and taps after that but nothing developed, first time home in daylight this week and a stunning sunset on the way back to Ross.
A tough day at the office.

A blustery day and water slightly coloured..........I'm trying to make excuses for my own failings, I caught one small 7inch WBT on an F fly, my friend blanked but we both enjoyed the day.

Fished Wyastone Leys for the first time. The tree coverage behind was very handy considering the conditions and recommended for south westerly wind. Caught 5 barbel the best being 8lb 3oz. No sign of any chub. Thoroughly enjoyable day considering river was clear and will be going back in the future.