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A good day out on the river. Two kelts caught, both well mended, plus a very sharp pull. The kelts came one each from the Electric Wires and Maddox while the pull was in the Vanstone pool.
I fished a 1.5 inch brass tube black and yellow on an intermediate line and a fast sink 5ft poly leader.
Very good car access to the river and the bottom half of the beat is easily fished. The top few pools are a little hard to access with overgrown banks and at the water height today (approx 11'') a tad awkward to get into the water. But, an excellent day out, some superb fly water and lots of very active water foul preparing for nesting. Perhaps spring really is on the way?

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Rainbow trout - 5 fish, 2 taken and 3 returned. Olive goldhead accounted for most. Largest 2.5llb.

I arrived to find a stiff frost. Fished various swims, even the chub didn't oblige forcing a blank. Still enjoyed the day though.

10 x trout 9-13 inches. An early spring day during which the temperature gradually rose from freezing to about 10 degrees. Nothing doing until a light hatch of large olives between 12 and 2. Fish taken on dries (Bastard Adams) and spiders.

Total blank. No sign of fish. Bright windy day about 6C.River 0.18 at Pant Mawr. Disappointing in view of past early success here.

5 Kelts (2 lost), 3 Brown Trout, 1 Sea Trout. No signs of fresh fish but obviously loads of kelts in the river. All well mended. All taken on spinning gear. Once again a lovely day at Caradoc. The Sea Trout made my day.

Firstly, a word of warning, please if you do come fishing here, have a look at the track before you drive down it, we spent the first hour organising a tractor to pull the car out.
Following two days of rain the river level was up but not alarmingly so, what did spoil the day was the downstream almost gale force winds, still we carried on with not much luck, one four pound chub and a couple of gudgeon for our days efforts, but that was down to the weather rather than the stretch of water.
On a side note we did see two salmon, one about 8lb and one about the 10lb mark towards Rope pool about half way down the beat !That did cheer us up.
WUF NOTE - the map instructs parking at the end of the gravel track.

Water 0.5m and cold. Fished for trout only and landed 3 decent size fish on the waterhen bloa. Took one at 1lb and returned others. Very sparse hatch.

Beautiful fresh 30lb+ (43inch) caught on home made fly.

14 x trout, 6-12 inches, on spiders. A better than expected result, as the temperature remained around 5 degrees all day with a desperately cold downstream wind. There was quite a heavy large dark olive hatch after lunch, truly the "cold weather" fly, but I didn't see a single fish rise to an adult on the surface. The big fish didn't show, but quite a number around 10-12 inches were prepared to come up to spiders fished in the top 6 inches, so I presume they were intercepting the emerging nymphs. A good day, if chilly.