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Three trout, biggest about a pound, all on Bibio.

3 Trout

Super low water had me stuck on the upper pool close to the island all day long . I managed to land 10 fish , best one around a pound , french leader and duo worked for me.

10 Trout

Brilliant sunshine and ultra low river levels made things tough but we managed to lure 3 small browns (approx 7 inches each) and a shad (the first any of us had seen and a PB at 7 inches too!) during the day. Lots of hatch going on but very little in the way of rises at all and all fish were taken to small nymphs (size 18) fished in whatever deep water we could find.
Beautiful location and we're looking forward to trying it again in better conditions.

4 Trout

2 Trout

Tough going but lovely surroundings

1 Trout

First time at this lovely location , and a nice change from the upland Llyns . Water clarity and insect life was abundant and shoals of minnows and young trout were evident in big numbers at the top end of the reservoir . I did start at the top shallow end , as there were some steady rises on the roadside shore , and all the way up to the inlet . Fished various small CDC emergers and hawthorn flies , but no takers . I moved back down to the roadside shore , and put on a team of my home tied offerings . Kate McCalaren and tiny bibio variant , had the first cracking fish , pound ish , which took the KM , quick pic and quickly released back into the reservoir,and a few casts later , had two smaller fish one on the bibio and one on the KM , quickly admired then with splashy appraisal , off they went !!!!! Was a fun four hours , and shall head again to this adorable reservoir very soon . Not sure as fish should be taken from here , should be the same protocol as Talybont . I feel if folks want to take fish , have a crack on Clewedog , or Usk reservoir !!!! With three fish caught and returned , it was nice heading back on the A470 seeing the sun start to dip over the Beacons , back soon !!!!

3 Trout

With the Trallong guage at only 0.23m, the river is right down to its bones, running languidly through the drops into a descending series of very shallow, slow-moving glides. Fish are VERY spooky, sitting and feeding in shallow margins, and with tail-gunners and non-rising fish off upstream if inadvertently disturbed. The morning was cool and cloudy with a pesky cold upstream wind impairing presentation and little fly until about 11 a.m. but with just a few fish sipping, mainly in the margins, probably on midge. Then mainly OUs, LBDs, midge and gnats appeared, not in huge numbers, but enough to get more fish moving. There is also a lot of green aphid on the sycamores, as well as some monster stonefly on the water – the Little and (very) Large Show! In the afternoon, as if it wasn't tough enough already, it was wall to wall sunshine with fish even spookier, but some still nebbing, seemingly on black gnat, especially where there was some shade. The trout were all plump well-fed Penpont fish, with fish ranging from 10, 12, 14 and 16 inches, the latter fat at a surprising two pounds. Fish were taken on Baby Sunfly, an OU Duck’s Dun variant, a small HE emerger, and a black F fly for the gnats. I had to leave at 5 p.m. but there were lots of spinners in the air so I shall stay later on my next trip (after / if we get some more water – lots of rain please, and soon!). An exceedingly hard but rewarding day.

11 Trout

A day of two halves - cold, overcast and quite windy in the morning, clear blue skies and a baking sun in the afternoon. Fish don't like either really, very few showing, and those that did, were grayling. Combined with the low water level, it made for a hard day. Never mind, there's always tomorrow!

2 Trout, 1 Grayling