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Arrived at midday and fished until 6.00pm - the river condition and setting were wonderful with a good hatch of mayfly but sadly almost no fish rising anywhere on the river.
Managed a small brown on dry but nothing on nymphs - still had a great day.

1 Trout

All fish safely returned.
Lots of Japanese knotweed observed, particularly in the upper half of the fishery.

5 Trout

2 Grayling

River below summer levels which made access much easier than previous visits opening up more water than can be covered in a day. Wading was good under foot as far as grip goes - no algae growth yet which turns the bed rock to glass, watch out for the boulders.
Trout ranged in size from 14 to 9 inch with a couple of specimens lost. Majority taken on dry, most productive being a black F fly.

15 Trout

Weather conditions were warm but also cloudy all day such that the slightly cooler evening felt incredibly 'fishy' and very promising despite lowish water. I'm not completely sure of the height but it must have been roughly same as the previous day's 9ins. I cast a shortish line offering a #10 Usk Grub from just above the rock line of lower section Mill stream. After perhaps two casts, a nice fish of around 15lbs with slight colour, performed a splashy head and tail jump adjacent to me, so I moved down a little and re-cast a few times before a serious take from behind the second lie down. I saw the fish (presume the same one) just once during the course of an exciting approx 5 minute contest which involved much head-shaking and a few deep dives rather than long runs. All seemed to be going well when suddenly 'ping', the rod straightened and no fish after all. Fly and points in good shape so it must be me.

I caught no trout today and only saw a couple of rises in the 4 hours I was there. Very difficult day.

A slow start to the morning but action increased as the day warmed, which was very welcome after a very sparse session on The Irfon the previous day. Maybe 3 or 4 at 4”, then the rest up to a single 10” which was the last catch of the day on one of Hergest’s several deep pools. All fish to dry on a short 3WT. On the drive out I noted some heavy trimming at the start of the Aberedw beat and wonder if the whole beat has been cleared? From what I remember last year, it was due.

15 Trout

Should I? Shouldn’t I? Well, I did....an afternoon 3 hour session as the grass decided it can wait a bit longer to be cut at home. Walked the edge of the newly planted field of potatoes, with the furrows steering me to the very start of the beat. Hoping to find regularly rising fish, but they were less upwards looking initially, although plenty of mixed fly life about. First fish about 8 inches took the nymph and scrapped well, airborne most of the time. Thereafter, I alternated between dry 18 olive parachute which was greedily engulfed by the second of the day, and Klink and dink. Two others took nymph with remainder nailing the Klink. Long distance released 4 others. By the look of the shell (photo), the local otter has a job on its hands....looked more like lobster size!! A lovely way to spend a birthday afternoon.

8 Trout

Short Tenkara rod and olive kebari fished just under the surface in the runs and riffles.
8 small trout landed and plenty more missed.

8 Trout