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Good day fishing, low water, clear. A few barbel seen, grayling, chub even eel. Evening rise with pair of trout 12/14" on wet fly.

2 Trout

Not the best plan of the season so far, to go and fish Abernant when the Llanstephan guage is at 3" (have never fished here when it is quite this low before, nor likely too again I suspect!) when it is also windy and when rain is forecast mid-afternoon. With hardly any fly at all and no rises, except for tiny trout, the session proved a tad challenging(!) and sense finally prevailed at 3p.m. when I decided to head home. However, having fished duo with a HE emerger and FBPTN, I did manage to catch five grayling and eight trout. All of the trout and two of the grayling were on the nymph and three grayling on the emerger. Two of these risen fish, after taking the fly, then induced the other grayling to take the nymph, not once but twice - not unusual of course but always entertaining when it happens. The other grayling was taken later whilst Czech nymphing hard on the bottom, again on a FBPTN. Best trout 10" and the rest even smaller. Grayling mainly 10" plus two of 11 and 12". Very hard, but at least something to show for such an ill-timed session - must try to get the brain more in gear when planning my next visit to the river!

8 Trout, 6 Grayling

There is some lovely trout fly water on this beat with it at this low level. There was a fantastic hatch yesterday afternoon - was a fairly soft day with some cloud cover - with olives, yellow mays sedges and mayflies amongst the feast on offer to the fish. They didnt seem too impressed however and never settled in to predictable taking patterns - the few we winkled out were with one exception oncers. Silver tourists present too - several flaunting themselves including at least one lunker - above Edw confluence. Its a funny year so far, only 14 fish total out of 10 rod days - its almost as if someone has been training the fish over winter!

6 Trout

Quite chilly when I arrived 12C . Left the sunshine behind in Cwmbran. Fished a team of spiders with a ptn on point, no luck. Put a gold beaded hares ear on point and caught 4 trout in the same run, 2 around 12 inches and two tiddlers.
By midday sun was blazing. Learnt to access the top half of the beat by wading across and not abseiling down the left bank!
Desultory hatch, no fish seen rising so left 2pm.

4 Trout

5 Trout, 1 Grayling, 1 Chub

Surprisingly few flies emerging during the day - a few Danica, Yellow Mays and Medium Olives. Perhaps it was the north wind that put them down? At times it was quite strong!
Klink & Dink method was adopted with Dink (wtd PTN) catching most fish. Also a traditional team of wet flies worked well in late afternoon. Apart from the eleven trout/grayling a multitude of parr (trout and salmon) were caught.

6 Trout, 5 Grayling

First time on this beat a nice part of the river in beautiful surroundings, sunny and warm. Fish caught on gold head grgh and chech nymphs. Trout generally small with largest one at a pound. Fish of the day was a surprise chub at 2.5 lbs.

15 Trout, 1 Grayling, 1 Chub

My luck had to change! The lovely early morning cloud cover just evaporated away to blue skies and a torrid sun. I didn't like it and it seems the trout weren't too keen on it either. Very little rising apart from the odd tiddler in the shallows.
Two salmon leapt in the morning and retired to sulk in the depths.
1 small trout on a hares ear. Packed in after a bankside lunch.

1 Trout

Fished the fly through the day. Saw several fish during the morning but only managed to catch a small trout and a large shad. Water height and clarity was spot on.
Two canoeists appeared on the bankside next to me mid afternoon and proceeded to launch despite my protestations. They claimed to have permission from the Abernant owner and clearly had no interest in any rules in force.

1 Trout, 1 Other

Water looked good and and 3 fish seen running through beat @ c. 8am. Fished hard but clearly not very competently.
Mid afternoon break for trout in afternoon was upstream nymphing fun. An enjoyable day as ever.

6 Trout