Feedback & Reports

Well decided to give the lovely Llynfi Dulas a crack this morning , so headed down after getting up at sparrows fart , to feed the pigs , hens and give the pooch a good run around before I ventured off . . . .

About seven degrees and climbing when I tackled up at tenish , walking down the steep field to the Brook , the Llynfi Dulas looked a picture , and I was hoping some feisty brownies would be playing ball this morning . . . .

Turned out a pretty tricky three hours to say the least . . Nymphs GRHE, and various PTN 's tried , and dries , after hour or so , having worked some lovely water , first hit , and a small seven inch brownie to hand , seems they were livening up , and next pool , another , ditto in size , but beautifully marked fish all the same . . . . .

Did attempt duo , but no takers on that , so reverted back to two nymphs , no takers from the biiiiiiig pool , where the stream joins the Dulas , and one more fish , perhaps six inches , from the next pool up , was a fun morning , no decent feisty brownies showing today , still earlyish I guess , and with th more settled weather this week , may bring them out !!!!!!

Lots of insect life about in the valley , LDO's , MB's and stoneflies , in fact lots of them at one point . . . . Viewing the water no rises at all during the whole three hour session , ah well that's life . . . . Tempted by a visit to the Honey Cafe on the way back , but resisted and made a right turn instead of a left . . . . A fun three hours , and three gorgeous small brownies to hand , back here soon , it s a lovely valley . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3 Trout

A cold day with sleet showers every hour. Still managed a good catch and there was a small hatch of olives around midday. Took one fish on the duo before deciding the swap to two tungsten nymphs in the deep pools. This took another five trout and an out of season Grayling.

6 Trout, 1 Grayling

Love array of fly life.....rises all afternoon until sunset.....only a few spots worth a cast.......very overgrown and low water levels......both fish succomb to the trust elkhair caddis.

2 Trout

The very lovely little Lynfi Dulas never fails to disappoint , the trout this afternoon/evening went from 6" to 11" and in superb form !
I was hoping that the Mayfly would be on the up and up they where , high in the air ! Nothing really hatching all day and did try a may spinner pattern for openers but they weren't really having it so switched to the old stalwart size 16 para Adams and that did the business . Very well in fact , kept the same fly on all day , most unusual not to lose one to the trees ! Might frame that one....
Nothing much rising during the day (very bright but plenty of shade over the river here ) but fishing the fishy spots (and there are lots and lots of them here !) got the appropriate response , even if they didn't all stick.
Some very big clouds of olive spinner late in the evening , and Mayfly too, over the water and some spent fly got them going on top proper and was a joy to see and just sit and watch a time . Seems fish numbers are very good at this time , great.
Big numbers of bugs on the stones , all the usual suspects .
Didn't quite make it up to the runs and pools up to where the brook comes in , next time , it's usually very well worth the effort !
A fantastic and hugely varied beat .

11 Trout

We arrived at this beat with high expectations, as we had fished it previously about 3 years ago and had very good results. However, we were very disappointed with this latest session. There was certainly no shortage of fly life, with a steady hatch of Mayfly coming off all afternoon, but although there was an occasional fish rising, there seemed to be far fewer than the previous time we had visited. In fact, some of the pools at the bottom of the beat which had previously produced seemed to be devoid of fish.

Things only got worse as we progressed upstream. The upper part of the beat is now very overgrown, and in some places where it was too deep to wade progress on the bank was extremely difficult due to thick vegetation, in particular brambles which tore at our waders.

We did manage to catch three trout between two anglers in what should have been perfect conditions, but unless some drastic coppicing is undertaken to improve the access in the top part of the beat we would not recommend this beat.

3 Trout

few hours stalking risers , all fell for cdc olive and between 8-13 inches.

8 Trout

Having other commitments in the afternoon, I was only able to fish 0800-1030, so had to push through quite quickly. This is a very tricky beat requiring some tight casting, my 6'6" rod still felt too long in places. I left a lot of pools unfished, particularly the upper half which is particularly enclosed by vegetation, but think I could have covered more with more time available.
Those that I did fish were full of trout, with almost every section where I could lay a fly resulting in a splashy rise or pull on the nymph. 6 stuck long enough to come to hand, biggest about 7" and the rest about 4"-5"

6 Trout

Had 2 hours before the river started to cloud up from the rain while I was fishing

5 Trout

Perhaps a little ambitious to try and cover both beats in one go, only managed a few hundred yards of the middle beat missing and losing several on barbless before the climb back to the car.
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1 Trout

5 Trout