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Wow what a superb morning....A real wild streams morning too!! Fished the upper section of this beat , tackling up at ten....lovely to be fishing the little mega light, six foot, one weight, after four cracking days fishing my local big wild reservoirs of the Elan Valley !!! Great early season sport too, with some belting fish to my net ...
Anyway, Large Darks on the go as soon as I entered the river ...ohhhhhhhhhhhhh she is low, a good six or eight hours of the wet stuff needed....Fifteen degrees today..Felt almost summer like too ...Plenty of insect life too ...A few March Brown's by half twelve .
First fish absolutely nailed my dry .....in the rifgley stuff where the olives were dancing !!! Only eight inches but hugely welcome .... Having had a few good fish on streamers in the Elenydd early season, was sooooo nice to catch them on the refined method ....my favourite too !!!! Second fish aas a belter, tight in thr marginal undercut bank, came out with a confident splash ...lovely fish ...my last two were in deep pool heads in the long Riffley stuff, again only wee fish, but a superb three hours sport on one of my favourites ...Back on thr lovely Edw and Arrow soon .... They take their time cause of the river location and they stay pretty cold till we get plenty of the warm bright ball in the sky ...Then the Arrow, Edw and Lugg will kick into gear ....About two of three weeks i reckon if the weather behaves . On another wild stream beat in a couple of days ....Nantymoch Reservoir with a buddy from Rhayader tommorrow ...A fab session, dippers seen , bumblebees busy on the banks, bullheads under stones, olives dancing over the fast water, ohhhh and a thick bit of fondant on the cake, four cracking Ithon fish on the dries ....Happy days !!!!

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Second time with grandson, second blank

15.00 Holme Lacy 4, hen fish 23lb on the fly, caught on my own tied cascade. The salmon put up good fight.

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Complete blank today. Very cold easterly wind which lasted all day, although it did warm up after 1.00pm. To my surprise there was a fish rising for anything that floated by including catkin buds and as I had left my willow catkin fly at home, anything I put at it, it turned it's nose up and ignored it!!

Hard going ,mb hatch 40 mins and over,managed 2 on drys (small). Rest on tungsten nymphs in fast water,up to 1.5 lbs.
Lots of pools quite ,but we need rain,possibly on summer level atm. Low and clear, 15 ft tapered Leader a must.
A guy was spinning above the bridge when arriving but soon walked up steam on seeing me,seems to be a fair bit of poaching on this beat,last time there was 4 boys spinning on opposite bank.

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the level is good a bit on the clear side but in the deep runs quite dark so the fish can lie , tried several types of nymph as there were no fish rising had nothing not even a knock lots of very small midge flies about but no fish coming up , as a last gasp shot put on a size14 dry olive ran it across a very fast riffle as it went under got taken by the first trout, then tried an up stream run fast water but just a light ripple second cast it came up to the dry fly ,

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Very quiet, low, clear water with a cool northern wind. Fish rising occasionally, very sporadic unfortunately.

Great location and good access all the way down with 4x4.
Shame about the beer cans all around the boat house! - cleared up and took away.

1230 - 1545 session. Cold at 8C with slight NE wind.
Would have seen 15-20 fish rise during the afternoon. Never found what they were rising to as no fish rose to a dry fly or wet fly with a lot of patterns tried. Also no fish seemed to rise twice. Very sporadic with some rising 5-10m out from the bank with others seen rising about 50m out.

Few small black gnats around the banks and edges. No other fly life seen, not a surprise in those conditions.

Look forward to returning a bit later in the spring.

Cold. No hatch. Walkers and dogs everywhere. The beat looks great but I won’t fish it again on a Sunday. Fish to blind dries in the riffles

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