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Very disappointing venue. I found most of the beat inaccessible due to very high and steap banks (I'am afraid my mountain goat days are over!). Only accessibly point was on large stone and pebble bank with very shallow water. Gave-up, nothing caught.

28 x grayling to 14 inches; 17 x trout to 12 inches, North Country spiders and dries. A very enjoyable day on one of the beats where you can really experiment to compare flies and techniques.

Really interesting beat and the weather was crisp sunny day.
Fished initially on the lower beat which consists of an extremely long almost featureless gutter. Looks like it wouldnt contain much but it was full of decent sized grayling. Caught 12 grayling mostly around the 1lb mark in a couple of hours before moving to the upstream beat. Most of the fish were caught on a czech grub fished upstream 3ft below a ginger sedge as indicator but 3 of the fish came up for the sedge.

The upper part of the beat has some beautiful pools and runs that look like they should contain decent brown trout but only managed one small trout about 1/2lb all afternoon on a pheasant tail nymph fished downstream and only saw a couple of fish rising. The two sections of this beat were a compleat contrast in every way and a beat I'd definitely recommend. Wading is relatively easy over most of the beat.

Wonderful stretch of river. The weather was warm and very sunny and the river was running low and clear which most likely accounts for why we had no bites until 3pm.

1 x 2 lb 8oz Chub (Elips Pellet)
2 x 3 lb Chub (floated bread flake)
1 x 5 lb Barbel (Elips Pellet)
1 x 6 lb 12oz Barbel (Elips Pellet)
(3 rods)

Very blustery conditions. Three chub to 5lbs.

Number of small brownies best around 8" mid beat. Hot sunny windy day so not bad performance given conditions and time of year. Worth the visit.

Cool and cloudy in morning but rather sunny and warm by evening. Intermittent, stiff downstream winds. Water low, very clear. 9 grayling on small dry. Three around 1 lb, one nearly 2 lb 3 browns, on small dry. Two at 10 in., one lovely hen fish at 17 in.

Again, a lovely beat, with some nice challenging water, and great wildlife. Did the otter in this beat pay for his fishing? I wasn't quite sure how to pass by the 'white house' and so went to water through the woods. Thanks again to WUF and partners for a lovely day on the water.

All fish carefully and safely released.

Caught 2 trout 10in and 1 grayling 11in on dry fly. River low and clear. Very windy. plenty of flies about but no rises. Fished 10.45 to 14.45.

Really pleasant day; river low and clear so not ideal conditions but 3 barbel to 8.4 and 3 chub to 3.8 caught on bread and sweetcorn hookbaits.
Saw a pair of peregrine falcons around the big bend at the downstream section of the fishery.

Day 1 - Dan Y Parc
5 trout, 2 dace - largest to 1lb. Trout to nymph, dace to dry fly. 5 rods on the beat which was a bit of a surprise. Not huge amount of insect life/rising. Water very clear.

Day 2 - Glan yr Afon
8 trout, all to nymph. Largest 3/4 lb. Only rod on the beat, and very much upstream nymph territory. Limited rise just above the island mid-morning.

Day 3 - Dinas & Abercynrig
9 trout, largest 1 3/4 lb. Caught on nymph and dry (klinkhammer). V good day's fishing only spoilt by ripping waders on barbed wire... Mid-afternoon rise productive, and also late evening rise. Water very clear.

Day 4 - Fenni Fach
3 trout, largest 1/2 lb if that. This beat flatters to deceive. Had to work hard for these small trout. The other rod was no more productive.

All in all an enjoyable and tiring few days. The river was very clear and consistently falling - more insect activity and it could have been a bonanza!