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3 Trout

Very changeable weather, more like April than June. River still low and clear, but the fish were happy to take the dry fly today.

14 Trout

The poor old Ithon is looking low tired and dirty to be honest!!!! Hard going today with regards to finding any decent fish ....
Small stuff only to my dries and surprisingly
Two small chubb !!! Never seen them here .....
Lots of jnsect life on the go ... a very hot one , mid Summer temps today !!! This river needs a mega flush through .... and some serious water to make it fun again ....I'll leave this one till we get rain ...
Went on to thf Wye at Builth later, and managed half a dozen on.dries .... great fun !!
A lot of thr rivers are screaming for a top up .... looks like I'll be taking clients on the Wye and the Elan which is at least cold outflow from Cabsn Coch Reservoir.....
Right , time for a cold one !!! Pppffffffftttttt need this weather to break ..... and sooooooon !!!

4 Trout, 2 Chub

All the fish from fast flowing water. Not a single rise on slower areas.

9 Trout

Very low again but a lovely evening - great time of year to be on the river bank. Both fish taken on small nymphs.

2 Trout

First outing on the wild streams this season. Quiet, only fish seen rising hooked and lost.

Very, very low and nothing seen. Fished the lower beat for an hour or so on a lovely warm evening - lots hatching. Rain forecast for next week! ????

Just a quick shimmy up the top section of the beat , she's in dire need of a good flush through to be honest...Warm and fifteen degrees when i bowled up at the bridge parking area ....
On arrival, some olives and sedge on the go, and also some large brook duns .....
Not much surface activity in fairness...A slow slow wade up a very low river ...The usual locations produced . One was to a riser, the others,caught prospecting in likely water !! Certainly a good five inches extra on height Is needed, just to put some zest back into the Ithon.....
Parts of the Wye at Builth yesterday in the slow stuff , were festooned with that bloody aweful bright green algae !!!!! Rain needed, lots of it too !!!
Fish were of the usual stamp here today, and cracker of perhaps ten inches, the other two seven and eight respectively.....
A fun session from two till four .... back home nd hose the garden afain I suppose !!! Happy days ......

3 Trout

Wow what a superb morning....A real wild streams morning too!! Fished the upper section of this beat , tackling up at ten....lovely to be fishing the little mega light, six foot, one weight, after four cracking days fishing my local big wild reservoirs of the Elan Valley !!! Great early season sport too, with some belting fish to my net ...
Anyway, Large Darks on the go as soon as I entered the river ...ohhhhhhhhhhhhh she is low, a good six or eight hours of the wet stuff needed....Fifteen degrees today..Felt almost summer like too ...Plenty of insect life too ...A few March Brown's by half twelve .
First fish absolutely nailed my dry .....in the rifgley stuff where the olives were dancing !!! Only eight inches but hugely welcome .... Having had a few good fish on streamers in the Elenydd early season, was sooooo nice to catch them on the refined method ....my favourite too !!!! Second fish aas a belter, tight in thr marginal undercut bank, came out with a confident splash ...lovely fish ...my last two were in deep pool heads in the long Riffley stuff, again only wee fish, but a superb three hours sport on one of my favourites ...Back on thr lovely Edw and Arrow soon .... They take their time cause of the river location and they stay pretty cold till we get plenty of the warm bright ball in the sky ...Then the Arrow, Edw and Lugg will kick into gear ....About two of three weeks i reckon if the weather behaves . On another wild stream beat in a couple of days ....Nantymoch Reservoir with a buddy from Rhayader tommorrow ...A fab session, dippers seen , bumblebees busy on the banks, bullheads under stones, olives dancing over the fast water, ohhhh and a thick bit of fondant on the cake, four cracking Ithon fish on the dries ....Happy days !!!!

4 Trout

4 Trout