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It was a surprisingly poor day. The weather forecast was, wrong again, predicting some cloud and sunny intervals. It was in fact cold, wet and windy until about 1pm!! The water had fallen further and affected the path of the fly at the Rock Pool.
Some fish did begin to show, but when I caught one, it wasn't what I expected. I caught a shad, about 1lb and it was a dazzling silver with white belly, and leapt all over the place. It was safely returned.
I went downstream, where there are some really deep areas. Again, with some higher water levels, the path of the fly would be easier, but again, I caught a shad, this time 1 1/2lb with a rainbow stripe down it's side. I don't know what that means with shad but it was a very fine fish, and you can see if you catch a biggish one, say 2-3lb, it would be a formidable adversary.
I caught some smaller trout too. All fish on salmon flies. Rain due this week. Bring it on!!

2 Trout, 2 Other

I knew it would be a quiet day on the salmon front. Water 7" at the Llanstephan guage. Water temp 18C. I arrived just before midday and fished from the Mill Stream down through Rectory a couple of times, trying different depths and sizes of fly. Willie Gunn and Cascade were the flies of choice for me - unfortunately not for the salmon. Something knocked me in the Mill Stream early on but I didn't hook. Plenty of trout activity and upwings including a steady supply of Mayfly in the evening. I had a surprise swim up to my shoulders in The Rectory pool - much to the enjoyment of the dog in the house (The Rectory I assume) above. Despite the lack of fish, I had a great day and will be back.

2 small trout caught but returned. Not many fish to be seen most of the day. Small brownish nymph and Black nymph with head worked once each.

2 Trout

With great regret, I did not fish. Slightly optimistically thought rain was coming in over the weekend and early this week - nothing major came. Level sitting at 7" so cut my losses and saved on the petrol costs at least. Less optimism and more realism needed on future weather predictions.

6 Trout

Extremely hot day but beautiful stretch of the river. We put back two brown trout of 10"and a few smaller fish caught in the faster water.

2 Trout

Very hot day - no salmon seen throughout.

A pleasant day at the Rectory but with no Salmon caught. One beautiful Shad of about a pound caught on my size 6 Black Doctor. Flies observed Alder, Mayfly (quite a few ) and the odd medium olive. Not many trout rising from 8-30 am until 12-30. It is nice to see the increased number of Mayflies above the river. Rain for a week please.

Fish taken on nymphs - not much interest in dries. All fish returned. Please note that the access to the river near the bridge has been obstructed by a fence erected by builders. The nearest point of access is now down a lane off Station Road next to the council houses.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling