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Endured the rain for 2 hours then left. Didn’t see any fish rising maybe it was the mink we saw that scared them off.

The day was very windy, so no fly hatches and no rising fish. Only fished for a couple of hours, nothing seen. Note that this beat is very overgrown - much more than in previous seasons.

4 Trout

2 Grayling

Short session - 9 small brown trout. It helps to be able to cast with either hand here.

9 Trout

2 Trout

Fished from about 8:30 am til about 1 pm ,me and my young sons spent more time with our Griffith's Sparkle Gnat in the trees and bushes than in the water,but I managed to bring to hand a lovely brown trout at about 5 inches and lost about 4 more, quite a few small fish seen rising too. I should have wore long sleeves as arms covered in mosquito bites.seemed to be a lot of varied flying insects about,did not manage to try whole beat with kids,but look forward to going back in proper stealth mode.Also watch out for barbed wire when climbing in and out.

1 Trout

had a few hours on the dore today. very warm with minimal breeze to affect the cast. fair few mayfly about but most risers hitting midge in the slacker water. all to hand between 8-12 inches and the one grayling 8 inches. majority of fish took size 20 f-fly .

11 Trout, 1 Grayling

Bought a day ticket from The Bait Shack in Merthyr Tydfil, fished from about 12-4 pm, with lots of fumbling around and being hungover and having lunch.
Cycled up to trefechan and accessed the river from there.
Its a beautiful location to fish, the river is narrow and overgrown with lots of trees for you to lose your favourite flies on. Water was very clear and low, day was warm and sunny.
I fished with a tenkara rod and started off with heavy nymphs, and then switched to a dry foam beetle. Both methods caught fish equally as well in their own way.
My impression is that the river is teeming with small fish, the ones I caught were all less than 20 cm long but very athletic. I lost around half a dozen fish mostly due to having to work around lots of obstacles and trying to be as careful as possible with such small trout.
My impression is that the river is teeming with small trout but its not easy fishing.
The trout are very spooky and I’d often see them darting around pools as soon as I was in eyeshot, even when I wasn’t close or I was on a high bank. I saw a few dog walkers so I can see why, from the trout’s point of view human = incoming dog.
Am likely to return as its really nice fishing. If I can, with a shorter rod (mine is 12ft).

4 Trout