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Well for a change headed for the Llynfi Dulas; middle beat this morning . Decidedly cooler and overcast , reading 16 in my truck when I parked up and had a survey of the valley below . It's a lovely view of the little Llynfi Dulas down in the valley . Quickly set up , opting for the usual small streams six foot two weight rod and tied on a Parachute Pheasant tail . A lot of insects on the go , sedges , olives and some mayfly showing from eleven bells . And the fish were looking up for scoff from the word go !!!!!

A great three hour s, didn't even make it to the deep pool were the Brook comes in but had some lovely sport , sticking to just the Parachute dry , lovely splashy takes this morning , superb !!! Lots of activity in the glides too and a lovely sight seeing the wild resident brownies rising confidently in the water too . . and also from the resident kingfishers , they were busy up and down too !!!

Some good fish this morning in a tally of ten too ! Most in the seven to ten inch bracket , but I did have two crackers , maybe eleven and twelve inches respectively , lovely , and a run around on the two weight rod too !!!

Next time I'm here I'll do the full beat , I had some jobs to crack on with back at the Ponderosa , so although it was a brief visit , still a varied sporting one , loved it !!!! Can't think why I don't come here more tbh !! It's is messy and needs a lot of attention , looks like the lower does too reading. B. P. 's report last week !!! Both need a good haircut and some major T.L.C !!!!!! So there's you go WUF the Llynfi Dulas , both beats are messy messy messsy !!!!! Stick it on your " To Do " !!!! List .

That said I personally dont mind a scramble about , and some lovely trout here if you cast carefully , and use stealth and cunning !! back here soon to do the full beat , a superb three hours . . . . . Spot on !!!!

10 Trout

Not the best day, arrived at the location, got into the full kit and headed down towards the water. As I followed the stream up I found a dead sheep lying in the water. It looked like it had been there probably for a couple of days so that instantly was a bit of worry, conditions weren’t very good and the area didn’t look like it had been looked after at all. Honestly after probably about an hour I gave up, conditions weren’t correct, the dead animal in the water, the area itself. Just wasn’t for me. Being truthful and honest I wouldn’t recommend this area for a days fishing.

Three nice trout caught to dry on Parachute Adams or BWO. Frustrated at times as twice as many fish than I caught jumped off. River was very low and clouded-up every so often. I imagine there were farm animals cooling off further up stream. Upper part of beat where it goes single bank is not fishable. I walked up it for a couple of hundred yards and gave up as I couldn’t get a cast. Nice day.

3 Trout

Very low and clear water. Strong wind blowing along the river. Only fished the fist part of the beat along the field. Small hatch of mayflies, but bigger trout were rising under submerged branches....
Caught a few small ones.

4 Trout

First time here. As to be expected, getting a little overgrown in places but very beautiful. River low but with a tinge of colour. Big hatches of Olives of various sorts and the off mayfly but not huge numbers. Stuck with dry fly all day. Fish to 12 inches on Adams para, olive emergers and mayfly patterns.

8 Trout

Day two and struggled up here today ,very quiet, mind you it was a late start today and have the feeling I missed any hatching flies. Might have done better with a sunk fly I guess but enjoy the dry so much along here .Bit less tree climbing too! Some impressive clouds of large spinners (LBD?) gathering over the water though as I contemplated the return journey up 'The Hill'!
Alas I didnt make it up to the 'tunnels' at the top section today. There be the home of good fishes....well , usually.
Maybe the fish where just waiting for the mayfly, who knows hey. I think it is maybe better for them up on this beat but the one fish was a cracker and rose it first time I covered it so more than happy.
Kingfishers where very busy and saw some Sand Martens too . Great.
Even better parking up here now with the new gateway and considerate farmer it seems leaving plenty of good room for parking , lots of room,and always stand a while at the gate in to the field admiring the fine view before the descent.

1 Trout

4 Trout,2 on a para adams and 2 on nymph. A good hatch of various upwings from 13:00 including some sizeable flies maybe Turkey brown? The fish showed no interest with only a couple of rises seen.

4 Trout

Fished p.m. and evening. Day of sunny spells and cloud shadow. Plethora of fly life above, on and in the water, including a few mayfly, but not the fish activity to match. Saw only five fish rising, spooked one, missed take from another and caught last three small trout in same glide on Adams at last knockings.

3 Trout

had a couple of hours nymphing the heads of pools . 14 stuck and as many shook the hook. only a couple of rises caught my eye which were juvenile trout splashing at olives . all between 7-10 inches with nothing any bigger showing. the sun was lighting the bed of the stream by 1pm which pretty much killed the fishing.

14 Trout