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This is a really lovely beat with a good variety of water. The new owner was generous with his time talking about how the river was doing and where he has improved the access since I was last here a few years ago.
The glide at the bottom is very easy to wade and you can access the whole length of the beat. The island is trickier in places - you can get to it easily but fishing the main channel on the other side needs some roll casting and decent control as you can't always wade that far out from the foliage.

Fishing from just after noon until almost 7pm there was abundant insect life. There were fish rising all day in a slightly desultory manner and I spent most of the day slowly approaching each one only for the activity to stop as soon as I covered them; a mixture of clumsy casting and the wrong fly, I'm sure. Interestingly, I saw a reasonable number of large pale yellow upwings on the surface that were never taken so I assume everything was just sub surface. There was a frenetic 10 minutes around 2pm when the water was boiling, I had no idea what was hatching and got myself thoroughly tangled up in the excitement of trying three different flies.
After many changes I finally happened upon the right fly: a green-yellow quill body with CDC wings tempted a lovely fish of 11" at the very top end of the beat around half past five. Taking it back to the flats I had a few swirls and misses before a very strong 13" fish opposite the croy.

2 Trout

Tough day with few fish rising. Lovely bit of river though. Fascinating to see how river has changed as nearly 40 years since I last fished this stretch.

2 pounds on a March Brown dry.

1 Trout

We had 6-7 fish to the net between us including a few over 1lb on a mix of euro nymph in the riffles and dries on the flats.

6 Trout

No luck. Only a couple of fish showing. But not interested.
Another angler showed up twice to fish from the other bank. Said merthyr club access, which isn't correct - see early april catch report. River too deep to cross so the fellow has his story and look of innocence well prepared.
Beat owner may want to know.

Unfortunate the beat seemed empty of fish. We only saw two fish the whole day despite a huge hatch along most of the bottom end of the beat in early afternoon. We saw a heron several times on the beat and locals confirmed the presence of an otter in lower sections. Much of the beat was in accessible due being over grown and it took us a while to figure out how to access the far bank which had the better fishing. Top and bottom ends of the beat seemed in accessible due to over grown banks and too deep to wade.

Very cold wind gusting to 35mph and 6.5C start. Wind whipping up ripples on surface of water. Casting difficult. No rising fish. Persevered with nymphs but no luck on this occasion.

Bright warm Spring day. Expected more surface activity, but saw no rising fish and no significant hatches.

Fished for a few hours, no rises seen, caught one decent sized WBT nymphing. Saw an otter and a mink, very scenic beat, great access. KM Hereford

1 Trout

Lovely venue. Downstream wind made things difficult