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1 lb lovely brownie. A few other small trout jumping. Lovely evening.

1 Trout

No fish caught - only fished for an hour before being blown off the reservoir by really strong winds and heavy rain, bit of waste of time and mis-spent funds. Not clear why in the case of Talybont why the Wye & Usk charge 30% of the fee as an admin cost (booking fee)... If this is just to raise money for W&U then just say so versus passing this off as a booking/admin fee which has been out ruled in most organisations. Instead of book fee call it W&U funding contribution, I'd be happy with that.
WUF Note: The Fishing Passport is non-profit making and any fees are to cover the costs of running a booking office, credit card charges, website etc. They are not a Wye & Usk Foundation funding contribution.

Fantastic scenery but no fish this time. Will be back.

Weather overnight changed so poor conditions in the morning. After lunch improved a little but wasn’t until late in afternoon saw several fish rising. No luck but easy to get too and pleasant day fishing.

No fish again. It's me not the Reservoir.

Fished 11am to 4pm, with traditional wets and dries, really hard going with the weather so hot and bright, and not quite enough wind. The odd fish showing, but no significant hatch to talk of. Still, a lovely place to blank and get sunburnt, will give it another shot sometime, hoping for more cloud and a bit of a chop.

Great conditions in the morning, Managed to get 5 lovely trout. All within 45mins. No fish rising.
The colour variation between the trout is fascinating, not sure why this is.

5 Trout

Nice overcast warm day, lots of fishing rising. Difficult to tell what they were feeding on.
No wind, lake was like a mirror so changing to fish. Got 3 nice trout, best was about a pound.
Lovely location. Bibio and Diawl Bach did the business.

3 Trout

I bought this permit for one of our party of three anglers, the other two of us are Merthyr AA members. We arrived about 10.30am, a beautiful warm morning , cloudless sky and very light breeze (NE).Fish were rising in the calm water around the weed beds at the southern end, but within half an hour this activity ceased abruptly when the wind freshened a little. Throughout the morning the wiind gradually increased until by 1pm it was quite strong with the odd white crested wave just beginning to appear. It then gradually lessened throughout the rest of the day, until it was a light breeze by late afternoon early evening. But there was no sign of surface feeding fish again except for the occasional splashy take or jumping well out in the middle of the reservoir. We stopped fishing at approx. 7pm.
We fished a variety of common imitative nymph and buzzer patterns on hook sizes 10-14, both weighted and unweighted on leaders down to 3lb b.s. but had no takes. A most enjoyable day out in beautiful surroundings but no contact with the fish. Birds of note, cuckoo and tree pipit.