Feedback & Reports

Good conditions: cloudy and gentle breeze; river running well. Two of us had about 6 WBT each and a few more not landed.
Fishing a combination of wet, dry and nymphs in the day.

12 Trout

3 Trout

Brown trout and chub caught.

1 Trout, 1 Chub

No catch

1 Trout

1 rainbow caught

1 Trout

Good size, taken on dry fly olive pattern

2 Trout

Upstream Dry Fly fishing. 2 small Grayling of around 12cm in length. Along with 1 Brown Trout of just under 1lb

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

2 Trout

After a load of early gardening and oiling the shed, was time for a quick cuppa, then off to one of the wild streams ..... I saw last night a couple of booked beats, so I plumbed for the Clywedog......
I got there at ten to twelve, looking lovely and a perfect height to be honest !! Tackled up my usual six foot, one weight for here.... tis just the job ... mayfly on the go from half one and fish smashing them, although Tarka had done his usual rounds, and there were quiet areas along the bear .... You gotta do your leg work here and be prepared for some quiet pools !!! I saw the Otter briefly up by the Elan Pipes .... the other week, he was more towards the parking area .... cheeky monkey !!!
As mentioned before, put the graft in and you'll hit plenty of takes !!! A few risers caught , but mostly prospecting today... fun to be honest ..eighteen ish maybe more to the net, and a few long range releases... Great fun.. only wee fish today, ranging from seven to perhaps ten inches, all nailed my dry fly offerings .... Para Greenwells and DHE....I favour the smaller flies , even when mayfly are about to be honest..... apart from the big patterns really snarl up my furled leaders, ha ha .... I find my tactics still work, fishing smaller .... they'll still smash a well presented dry !!
....and , alas, they did today....A cracking four hours sport ..... tis a brook you got to graft in, but hey its an absolute cracker .... and yet another sighting of the Otter, this is becoming a regular occurance !!!
Back home, and a well earned can of Thatchers Gold !!! Happy days ......

18 Trout