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After the heavy morning showers, a lovely afternoon casting to rising trout.

5 Trout

No Fish caught. Very difficult conditions. River coloured and rising when arrived.Very little fly life, no fishing rising throughout the day. River gauge at Llanstephan showed the Wye level rose four inches between 8am and noon that day. MP.

This was a frustrating and ultimately disappointing day. There's no doubt this is a lovely beat and it has fished very well for one of us in the past. But we arrived to see that recent rain had lifted the river marginally but brought a pretty dirty wash down with it. We also both noticed how difficult it was to get a decent footing as there seemed to be a layer of very slippery silt everywhere - it needs a bigger flush through to clear some of this. Very few fish showing all day: those few that did rise only seemed to show once before disappearing for the rest of the day. Only managed five small trout between us. Still, it's much better to be on the river than not!

5 Trout

No fish caught or any bites. Llywn onn was very still. Poor value for money.

No fish caught or any bites. Little activity on the water . Poor value for money.

Looks a great venue but difficult access to river for the fishing.

2 Trout

Good looking beat limited access to fishing.

6 Trout

Afternoon session on a overcast warm day. Water had a lot of colour after a period of rain from the previous night. A few fish rising as I approached the river and took 2 healthy 12" fish within the first half dozen casts. Walked the water looking for feeding fish to target another 4 taken over the next couple of hours biggest being around the 16" mark. Think I may have started too late in the day, but lovely day to be on the river.

6 Trout

Fished the lower end of the beat in the morning with Shaun Watkins 2 grayling taken on nymphs several good takes on nymphs and drys fish rising one trout taken on the dry fly very small flies possible Gnats. Spent too much time on the lower end, moved up to the top end of the beat good head of grayling feeding of the top, one taken on the dry

1 Trout, 4 Grayling

Arrived at the beat at 8am and the river was very muddy after heavy rain through the night. Decided to give it a go anyway as fishing days are hard to come by these days. Found a couple of seams where the muddy flow joined clearer water gently flowing from pools so approached them with some upstream nymphing which paid off with 3 trout all around 12".
On another note I fished today in felt soled boots which I decided to try after fishing the last 3 seasons in vibram soled boots which, despite the added studs, never gave me much confidence. They were a huge improvement, I would not have been able to wade in my vibram boots today, the visibility was so bad that I could not see 2" below the surface let alone the river bed. The felt soled boots have another level of grip, I am aware of the risk of transferring parasites between rivers if not dried properly but if this is done, I don't fish regularly enough for this to be an issue, for me felt soled boots will always be the way forward.

3 Trout