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Warm sunny day with few small insect hatches in the afternoon, but no rises. Air and water temperature still cool. 2 WBT taken on nymph (dark olive pheasant tail), plus 1 missed take. Wet-fly trio on droppers with nymph point.

NOTE: Easy access to river, but difficult wading/walking along beat - overgrown with thorns (risk to tear waders).

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Having had an absolute ball over the weekend at Claerwen Reservoir , winkling lots of fish to the net on dries, with Bibio Pomonae on the go!!!! Lots of walking up my local wild reservoir !!! 900 acres is a lot of water..... Awesome fun though, but was lovely having a quick session up the Aberedw beat today ...... Fished eleven till just gone one, only likely areas with a dry Para Greenwells ...... Olives showing about midday, quite a few too .... Only the odd fish looking up , as Luke B. Put in his report, still need three or four good warm days for the tribs to crank into gear in mid Wales !!! The Wye at Builth has been great fun on the dries too ..... funny how these tribs can be so behind the main rivers ....... oh well, another ten days they'll be fantastic ... The Edw is running clear as gin and at her normal height !! Yes you could go plopping tungsten cannon balls in the pools, but I'm into finesse, always have, always will be !!! Proper stream dry fly tactics for this callsign I'm afraid !!! Lol.....
Four to the net , happy days, good Savage takes too, I cut out just before the house close to the river ... A fun two hours, fish between seven and ten inches .... back on one of the big wild reservoirs locally tommoz, then another wild stream on Thursday !! Living the dream ....Right, cuppa and digestive biccie time .......

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Plenty of life hatching but almost no surface activity and no fish caught. Lovely day though in a beautiful spot!

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The sun's out
The rods are out ...

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Beautiful stretch of water

Made our annual visit to Bugeilyn this time with a third angler who was new to fly fishing. Despite the northerly wind direction the weather was dry fairly warm with sunshine for most of the afternoon.

Initially with little wind the fish were right in the margins inches from the bank feeding on small black flies with several caught on silver invicta and small tadpole flies. Around the same time last year we noted dead frogs in the lake and reckoned tadpoles could be on the diet.

As the wind increased the fish move out and most were taken just under the surface mainly on small black flies and the tadpole pattern.

Great opening to our season especially as we had not been able to do any winter grayling fishing due to high river levels.

As we left the lake we believe we saw a pair of hen harriers flying around the new barn by the derelict farm house.

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