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This was a lovely hot Bank Holiday Monday. It's a beautiful stretch of river. The fishing wasn't easy in the heat of the day but during the evening the fish were more receptive and four trout in total. Frustratingly at times, the well tended private stretch was popular with dog walkers and swimming parties. Perhaps it was just because it was a Bank Holiday.

4 Trout

An excellebt beat but spoiled due to 6 dogs and people swimming in the river ( it was the first real spring day of the year. There is a public footpath on the north bank that was very well used on this day.
The river was like gin and low. Saw a 3lb trout, so did a dog who jumped on it! Suggest just fishing the south bank which has a walk way away from the footpath. Small hatch of olives.
There are excellent salmon pools on this beat and under different conditions and at a different time of year would be a good prospect.

4 Trout

Sporadic hatches of olives, mostly late morning to lunchtime, and just a few grannom about. Some egg-laying rusty spinners before lunch. Most fish came to nymphs in streamy water. A couple on olive F-flies and a solitary missed take to spiders. Fish not quite on the hatches yet.

10 Trout

Lovely varied water. Morning Grannom hatch, bright sunshine and gusting downstream breeze.

2 Trout

Need I mention that it was another cold day? Water at 3 degrees. Not a fish nor an insect seen. After fishing all the likely water as deep as possible without a touch, in mid-afternoon made a final switch in tactics and caught 2 fish on successive casts in mid-water and that was it. It has been a week requiring persistance...

2 Trout

Un-fishable. Up and coloured. Nothing seen.

Water clear but high no fish seen or caught did see a couple of poachers ......bless them eh!!

1st time on Glan-y-Cafn, water and current ideal for spinning. Healthy half pound sea trout caught and returned from a bronze mep. Little activity otherwise.

I came, I saw...and that was about it! Water was a bit high but nice colour, but didn't see a fish all day, which was surprising.

My last visit to Glan-Y-Cafn on a dank day in June was memorable for the quality of the fishing and the fine fish I caught there. Morevoer, it's a beautiful and atmospheric place. This time the sun was bright the temperature about 20c and little to no wind. I arrived late at 3pm thinking to fish the back end into dusk , only to find a group of lads throwing stones into the pool I planned to fish first. They did move on but not long after a few more lads with a couple of dogs turned up and began to play fetch the stick in some of the other pools! This was followed by the appearance of a friendly canoeist who paddled over to see if the fish were biting! I told him in a polite friendly manner that he was not supposed to be canoeing in this stretch. He apologised and said he thought folk could canoe anywhere they chose. Despite my being in a general recreational area on the day, I did manage 3 diminutive WBT on nymphs but nothing to dries. A few fish were rising to olives inbetween disturbances. I left feeling a tad disgruntled by comparison with my last visit to GYC, the day had been a bit of a shower but it was, nevertheless, a lovely afternoon in a lovely location .
PS - I also met a chap with a dog who said he used to poach on this same beat!