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Conditions very tough bright sunshine and spooked every fish I saw. Nil return.

Water level seemed very low. Water also seemed strangely opaque / milky in faster flowing sections which I've not seen before. No fish seen and hence none caught, even so pleasant few hours spent in lovely surroundings.

Afternoon and evening session. Blistering hot to start with at 3pm. Lugg running quite fast and milky. Wading was a challenge at times. A mass of flylife including mayflys. Nothing all afternoon - had on trout on for a couple of seconds. Resumed upstream of bridge at 6.30pm after a break and immediately had a 10" trout on a grhe fished under a Coch y Bonthi. Then had a couple of splashy rises to the fly so off with the nymph. Plenty of splashy rises from small fish until 8pm when river came alive. In an hour had 4 more trout all around 8-10" mark and missed twice as many.
Otter swam through heading downstream so called it a day.
Nice to have new stiles along beat. Having helped clear this beat over the winter - it never ceases to amaze me how fast everything grows. Where we had cleared branches well clear of the river - the weigh of leaves has now brought them back down to the surface.
One of my favourite WUF beats.

5 Trout

5 Grayling

This place is absolutely perfect for a fine day's trout fishing. The river was in tip top condition with just a slight colour to it but otherwise faultless. Great combination of glides and pools all yielding the finest looking brownies I've seen in a long time. I arrived at 8am and left at 4.30pm and caught fish consistently throughout the day. Despite the prolific mayfly hatch, almost all of the action was subsurface and upstream nymph was the order of the day. I began with a hare's ear nymph fished shallow and caught plenty of brownies between 6 and 7 inches, all beautifully coloured and conditioned. On the advice of the cottage occupant, I switched to a deeper presentation and fished the nymph deep into the pools and landed two or three 9 inch brownies and a gorgeous 12 inch grayling. My catch record above is an estimate as I lost count after the 10th fish!

15 Trout, 1 Grayling

Fantastic scenery. Only fished the upstream section, lots of pools and riffles to fish. Small fish caught on dry Greenwells Glory. Fished 4pm to 7pm.

2 Trout

Fished 4pm to 7pm in strong wind and rain. River colouring up and rising according to the sticks I put in the margins. Fished PTN but no takes, more to me feeling miserable and not trying to hard I think. Great to be out in such wonderful scenery.

The nicest evening of the week, quite a good hatch of olives but again few fish taking them. Managed 1 small fish on a PTN and three others on a stack winged olive; best was around a pound and was very welcome.

4 Trout

River higher than at same time previous years and also a bit coloured. Caught all fish on dry fly. Few flies about and no rises.

8 Trout

One of the best days I've had in a long while. A really lovely beat, interesting to fish and easy wading. Started around 10am working upstream. The only trout I saw were those that skittered away from my clumsy approach and a couple lying under overhanging branches and knots of vegetation. Spent two hours trying to sneak up and flick little casts at them with nothing to show except a collection of twigs. Around midday the trout very suddenly started feeding on the surface. A gentle hatch carried on all afternoon and evening - it was still just about going when I left at 6pm. Unsure of the entomology, I initially assumed LDO but when I got hold of a couple they were paler, more brown in colour with yellow legs.
Trout were rising consistently which made for exciting fishing but I was unable to effectively match what was hatching. I went through most of my box, taking a total of 5 and losing 4 more on a mixture of CDC Dark Olives, Cillabaetis Comparaduns, Royal Coachmen and Red Quill Duns. Largest was around 10 inches with the rest between 6 and 8. All returned.
A very exciting day I shall remember for a long time. The only thing that stopped me going on until dusk was the steady rain and cold that eventually left me unable to tie knots without dropping the contents of my fly box all over the floor. I'm sure somebody more competent than I with exactly the right colours in his box would have landed dozens more over the course of the day.

5 Trout