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No fish caught on two rods although two were lost during brief encounters. Cloudy but fairly warm day with a fair breeze. One fish took a daddy as it was stripped back for a re-cast and the other on an elk hair caddis in the gloamin. There were some large fish taking something but alas we could not entice them!

Arrived at Talybont reservoir at 4pm and finished fishing at 8pm, no fish caught or seen to rise. Water temperature very warm with a slight breeze. Buzzer, hopper, damsel and lures used without a bite. Met two other anglers that had no success that afternoon but the surroundings made up for the lack of fish. Will be back when the weather cools down.

A perfect summer's day in a very beautiful spot. Hopeless for fishing.

2 x trout, 12 inches and 15 inches. After a day of quite breath-taking heat - for this country - a rather quiet evening with almost no rises seen, although there was a reasonably good ripple and I fished on till 10 o'clock. At least the midges stayed away and a couple of nice fish came up before dark to hit the Kate Maclaren on the top dropper. A pleasant bank-side chat with a visiting rod on a WUF ticket, who also had one.

2 Trout

Fairly windy conditions, little to be seen rising and no luck on a range of wet flies!

Nothing caught.

1 Trout

1 x trout 15 inches, Hatching Wet Olive. Another evening on Talybont, not another soul around and a cuckoo calling in the woods opposite. What a beautiful place to spend a few hours! Hard fishing tonight, though, with a colder wind and rain on the way. Two more fish came off.

1 Trout

3 x trout 10-13 inches, Kate Maclaren and Mallard and Claret. I love to fish a summer evening at Talybont, but won't deny it can be difficult. This year the reservoir is completely full, which restricts the bank access somewhat. Still, I started off well with three modest fish, but then went on to lose a whole load more, most of which hit the Kate on the dropper. One fish which jumped itself off at range looked like a good 2 pounder. About an hour before dusk a really cold wind got up, the air became cooler than the water and my part of the lake seemed to die.

3 Trout

Brown trout 12" taken on black and peacock spider pattern fished wet on floating line.

1 Trout