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Low clear water. Ongoing LDO hatch brought the fish up. Caught on dries and nymphs.

1 Trout, 12 Grayling

Hatch lasted barely 20 mins - an hour yesterday - fewer fish showed. Spent a good few hours with wets, hooked one briefly. Beautiful weather, pretty easy wading and a truly lovely bit of river made it a memorable trip all the same. I’ll be back later in the season to try again

Around mid-day there was a hatch of March Browns which only lasted around 1/2 hr. I used a March Brown Jingler size 10 which worked really well. The fish are in the riffles. Even after the hatch had finished and the fish stopped rising, they could be caught in the riffles with this fly, on a speculative basis . Technically, I should have recorded a zero catch as all 8 came off the hook. These wild fish fight hard, jump out of the water and shake their heads, and its not possible to retain them with a barbless hook. There were olives about throughout the day but the fish weren't interested in them. At least I didn't have to unhook any of the fish! Good luck.

8 Trout

Summer levels,sunny day. A few small hatches of olives annd March browns although I saw nothing rise. Not a touch on spiders or upstream nymphs.

Lovely day, spring sunshine, which should have warmed the water a bit. A very brief March Brown hatch, started at 11.30 and lasted about 15 minutes which livened things up, but that was it!

Prolific March Brown hatch from 1045. A few breaking the surface but for about 20 mins only.

1 Trout

Wow what a superb morning....A real wild streams morning too!! Fished the upper section of this beat , tackling up at ten....lovely to be fishing the little mega light, six foot, one weight, after four cracking days fishing my local big wild reservoirs of the Elan Valley !!! Great early season sport too, with some belting fish to my net ...
Anyway, Large Darks on the go as soon as I entered the river ...ohhhhhhhhhhhhh she is low, a good six or eight hours of the wet stuff needed....Fifteen degrees today..Felt almost summer like too ...Plenty of insect life too ...A few March Brown's by half twelve .
First fish absolutely nailed my dry .....in the rifgley stuff where the olives were dancing !!! Only eight inches but hugely welcome .... Having had a few good fish on streamers in the Elenydd early season, was sooooo nice to catch them on the refined method ....my favourite too !!!! Second fish aas a belter, tight in thr marginal undercut bank, came out with a confident splash ...lovely fish ...my last two were in deep pool heads in the long Riffley stuff, again only wee fish, but a superb three hours sport on one of my favourites ...Back on thr lovely Edw and Arrow soon .... They take their time cause of the river location and they stay pretty cold till we get plenty of the warm bright ball in the sky ...Then the Arrow, Edw and Lugg will kick into gear ....About two of three weeks i reckon if the weather behaves . On another wild stream beat in a couple of days ....Nantymoch Reservoir with a buddy from Rhayader tommorrow ...A fab session, dippers seen , bumblebees busy on the banks, bullheads under stones, olives dancing over the fast water, ohhhh and a thick bit of fondant on the cake, four cracking Ithon fish on the dries ....Happy days !!!!

4 Trout

Second time with grandson, second blank

15.00 Holme Lacy 4, hen fish 23lb on the fly, caught on my own tied cascade. The salmon put up good fight.

1 Salmon

Complete blank today. Very cold easterly wind which lasted all day, although it did warm up after 1.00pm. To my surprise there was a fish rising for anything that floated by including catkin buds and as I had left my willow catkin fly at home, anything I put at it, it turned it's nose up and ignored it!!