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I'm a beginner and this was my first time on this beat. There was a good push of water through the deeper pools. I fished a floating short spey line with an intermediate polyleader. Water temp was 18 degrees. A brisk downstream wind meant I was having to double spey off my left shoulder which was horrible! ( But it was good practice)
I fished a 10 then a 12 Silver Stoat. No joy!
I saw a few trout rising but no sign of any Salmon.

8 Barbel, 15 Chub

2 Trout

12lbs fish from the Cafn pool on a small Cascade.

1 Salmon

Very tricky conditions, sunny, low water and downstream wind. Had a 14" trout on a nymph, and a couple of smaller fish at last light. Spinner fall at 7:30pm, couldn't work out for the life of us what they were eating - quite frustrating! Some days you think that you have the game worked out, not today...

3 Trout

5 Barbel, 14 Chub

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

Very tough going throughout the middle of the day, sporadic hatches and rises. Came alive in the last 30 mins of light, nearly all fish on olive emerger patterns. Access along the bank is terrible and dangerous, but once in the river ok.

12 Trout

Arrived de bonne heure to find a higher and faster flowing river than I was expecting - rain in Welsh Wales or, more likely, water from the dams? Started on the bottom beat, with two Grayling on pretty much my first two casts cause for optimism; but I was not to touch another fish until the afternoon. It could have been the thing at the blunt end of the rod I suppose, but there was a nasty downstream wind, and the river was really pushing through at that stage

Top beat in the afternoon for a couple more Grayling and a run of Trout, before picking up four more Grayling PDQ from just below the Suspension Bridge (from a run I usually fish but, if memory swerves, I have never caught from before) just before calling it a day. Quality over quantity today; while the Trout were on the small side, the Grayling were mostly the sort of fish my old mate Tom Dixon would call "about a pound". Most of the fish on a tungsten Endrick Spider, with a couple of rising fish taking a Klinkhammer

A bit like Joe Alexander the other day, I was startled by a large Eel more of less swimming through my legs while I was waist deep in mid river. While I am fearless when it comes to Pike, there is something about Eels that un-nerves me, so much so that, for the rest of the day, I spent as much time looking down as looking up

5 Trout, 8 Grayling