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one brown trout hooked but lost, apart from that there was little activity on this stretch today.

The best small stream fishing I have ever experienced. I lost track of the exact number of trout I caught, but I can confidently say it was the most in any day of my fishing carer.

Most fish were 5 to 7 inches with the occasional larger trout. All were in perfect condition.

All but one trout were caught on bead head GRHE (size 14 or 16).

At about 4pm the sun came out and there was a hatch (quite large greeny yellow upwings, I'm no entomologist), and I caught one fish on a similar looking dry fly.

The most effective method was a sort of upstream nymphing with a retrieve slightly faster than the current to help aid bite detection, but due to the size of the river, tactics were dependent on the amount of room to cast.

Definitely worth the three and a half hour drive

20 Trout

6 brownies caught on dry fly (parachute adams, jingler and drowned mayfly) of 8-10 inches caught during the afternoon.

6 Trout

1 Trout

Well as I bowled up at the lovely Kington beat at about quarter to nine , the sun was poking through , a little cool , but things looked good , reading twelve degrees in my truck , so not bad at all , rigged up my usual small streams ; six foot two weight beauty and opted for a rusty Para Adams initially . A very memorable day , and how things would have been different seventy five years ago , those young chaps risking all for us , i take my hat off to them , a few quiet moments of thought , then cracked on !!

No mayfly about , as expected at nine bells in the morning , and I only saw one all the time I was there , so looks like the big rave of the other day may be petering out big time !!!!!! That said , trout were looking up , and took my Adams , and grey Wulff , with the lovely aggressive hits that the Arrow fish do !!! Spot on , a few rises by half ten , and some upwing activity then also , Great stuff !!! Also prospecting the little fly , had some lovely splashy takes too , and in the tally some fish of around twelve inches , but most were between eight and ten inches , great little fighters and colours that looked superb in the bright morning sun . . . . . . . . .

The tricky section were the river meanders round to the right , and flows slowly , had a nice fish tucked tight in to the side , bit of stalking tactics , and catapult cast my fly , two attempts , and then bingo , in his sight picture , nailed it , lovely run around on the tiny rod , good twelve inch fish !!!

The upper section was really good fishing today too , lots of rises by half eleven , and some nice fish too , tubby and with plenty of poke , had fish right up to Malhallom bridge , the last one was right under the bridge , which I cast too , he nailed the grey Wulff , and was a feisty little seven inch fish , a superb morning , fourteen brought to the net , a few missed and a few long range releases , really good fun on the Arrow , as always , roll on the rain tomorrow , had twenty mins drizzle in two bouts over the four hours but nothing to write home about , a decent downpour is needed to raise the very low river levels , a fun four hours back here very sooooooooon , spot on !!!!!!

14 Trout

Good fishing today caught my bag in under 4 hours seemed to be the only one moving around the lake everyone else was static on golden trout 3 bug 3lb rainbows all taken on size 2.0 silver mepps style spinner nothing on copper toby as i got recomended all fish taken a470 side lots of fish visible with polarised glasses

4 Trout

Two trout taken on nymphs during a long days fishing Water low and clear no fly emerging. Rain wind and Sun during the day.

2 Trout

ten to hand and a few lost to hook pulls all of which were about 3 lb ! gutted to say the least . this beat is very hard to fish with hardly any access to the water at all. only about 400 metres is easily accessible the rest is over grown with steep banks to try and navigate to get into the river. on top of this overhanging trees forcing you out into the river to get around. I did not get down below the weir as there is no path and it is heavily overgrown with barbed wire fences thrown in as well. after fishing abercynrig on Tuesday and having a great day I was hoping this beat would also be good as it is next door to abercynrig . sadly to me it is not upto its neighbouring beat. there were plenty of fish rising throughout its length but just could not get anywhere near them.

10 Trout

Fished late p.m./evening from Mallhollam Bridge up. Five trout off top on mayfly. A bit more water needed and soon to arrive.

5 Trout

River very quiet, nothing hatching, nothing rising.