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Unfortunately no fish were caught on the day. My original plan was to fish the Doldowlod beat although when I arrived the water was very coloured and the river was running very wild so I moved on a bit further up. The water at Llangurig was much clearer so I decided to go ahead as this beat has produced some trophy fish in the past for me even when the fishing conditions weren't great. Unfortunately this wasn't the same. I only had a single take this day and the fish was lost in seconds so the only thing remained was to look at the beauty of the scenery as this was the only fish for the rest of the day. This was a day with heavy rains that was feeding the river which was running fast, a bit high and slightly coloured.

Water level very low, as was expected. Very pleased to catch two fish, a perfect days fishing. Spooked some very large trout, shall look forward to returning in better conditions. Largest fish 12" other 9", both on olive sparkle dun.

2 Trout

Magic evening. Fished lower beat from 5pm. Some fish rising when I arrived but couldn't tempt them . Switched to nymphs and had 2 nice trout of about 8" and 1 of about 12". Then saw my first wild otter which appeared from nowhere on opposite bank jumped into the river, explored the pool and headed off downstream. The encounter only lasted say half a minute but was still magical.

3 Trout

Fish returned alive, dry fly, olive, heavy rain rising river, difficult conditions.

1 Trout

Conditions were good but the fishing was very hard indeed, not for the inexperienced. There were very large numbers of very small (size of index finger) fish in this beat one of which we caught on a small dry fly but larger fish were few and far between. We saw 2 larger fish during the day (~12") and disturbed what we thing were a couple more but they proved very difficult to catch. Despite fishing very carefully and fishing the beat one by one in sections we were unable to catch any larger fish. I fished a single upstream nymph for most of the day. The gravel seemed quite silty in much of the beat with poor weed growth and on turning over some stones there wasn't a great deal of fly life. Plenty of small midges and we did see a 3/4 LDO duns at around midday.

1 Trout

Driving from London I reached the place later than I hoped, river was high but looking ok but it didn't last, levels increased and water got brown. Not risking wading I had problems accessing the river. There were no sign of gates and barbed wire fences everywhere. I like the Wye but probably this was the first and the last time I will go to Llanguring. Of course no fishes caught.

No life at all in the river. No fish. No fly life. A local passer-by even commented "who told you there were fish in here? There aren't". Hmmm.

WUF note - Although fish are not evident in great numbers, there are some large trout to be had here in some of the deeper pools. Please see earlier catch reports.

River high but fishable, despite the wind & rain, until lightning, mid-afternoon. No fish.

River slightly risen, some colour. Nymph used. Cold 2-3C, rain most day. No fish rise, no sights of tales, only few ships and crazy little pony observed my misery. Will check later this month again. Thanks!

No fish caught, the odd tiny one taking flies off the surface. Beautiful backdrop and superb weather, but of course the low flows are the negative and not a single hint of a fish of any size in what little water remained. I did catch a lovely wild brown trout here last year in much better water, so I'd recommend to anyone thinking of fishing here, wait for plenty of rain first!