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17 trout mostly 6-10 inches on a fairly mild and increasingly breezy day.
I started off with a "klink and dink" rig catching one on a small PT nymph before switching to a single dry fly after seeing a few rises and hooking and losing a couple of fish on the klinkhammer. 9 were caught on cdc dry flies in slower moving water (including 6 from the same glide/pool) with not much happening in the faster water where I was catching them here last year. After nearly an hour of being unable to rise any fish and the mostly downstream wind making casting difficult, I switched to shortline nymphing. 7 more trout were caught on heavy tungsten beaded PT nymphs, the majority coming from deeper turbulent water.

17 Trout

3 x BT caught and released safely - 9, 12 and 16 inches.
All caught on PT parachute.

3 Trout

The other angler was my friend OM who will make a separate return. WE really liked this beat - a beautiful late morning and afternoon. Always a challenge. Mine were caught with small dry fly. For some reason the later afternoon proved more difficult.

3 Trout

Excellent fly life. Handful of trout caught on dries. Lovely stretch of water.

5 Trout

Perfect water on upper Wye, so my wife and I got the children covered and treated ourselves to two nights away at the wonderful Llangoed hall which enabled convenient access for fishing this beat. I fished the upper beat (17 mins brisk walk to the top end) from dawn returning to the hall for breakfast having caught lots of trout but no Salmon seen. After breakfast we parked at the top end and both enjoyed a wonderful morning on Dol-meudy and Orchard etc. Fishing the Dolmido stone at 1'10" while watching my wife casting a fly down through the Orchard catching trout was one of the most picturesque fishing scenes of my life anywhere - just a stunningly beautiful stretch and enticing place to fish. Quick lunch at the "Wye not stop cafe" (excellent) and drive to lower end of the beat to fish the Pump house run and tricky Llangoed gutters in the afternoon. My wife walked back to the hall while I tried the intriguing gutters once more but nothing seen. We caught numerous trout but did not even see a Salmon which was a little disappointing as a few had been caught locally. In hind sight perhaps we might have tried a spinner in the deep Llangoed pool (a major deep hole) but enjoying the good water we did not carry a spinning rod along but would do so if fishing here again.
Many thanks to all for a wonderful few days fishing in Wales.

15 Trout

2 Trout

Bright sunny day and quite windy. No fly life on the water and all fish taken on nymphs.

5 Trout, 4 Grayling

Despite a forecast of cloud this was an often bright day with a blustery downstream wind that made dry fly tactics difficult. Hatches were in any case sparse, with a few Yellow May Duns riding the current and swarms of gnats on the upper reaches in the morning, but these were largely ignored.
I got lucky towards the top with a strong trout lying in a nearside stream which took a grey shrimp and was adjudged better than a pound and a half. This was later trumped by a very strong fish on the island section on the middle reaches which took the trailing point fly when a small fish was in play on the dropper and simply whizzed down and across the pool in two bursts and broke me. After lunch one of the smaller pools below the first parking place produced two decent fish but I had little reward from my 'dances with bedrock' going down to the bottom pool. The middle reaches produced a little more sport in the early evening, including one decent trout which let go after a minute or so, but half of the catch today was tiddlers and it was a shame that with the benefit of the previous week's rain Fenni Fach did not have more conducive weather conditions to show more of this beautiful but challenging beat's potential.

10 Trout

No sign of any salmon.

Conditions pretty much perfect, but no fish caught. Many thanks to Simon for his help, need all the help I can get!