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Good Morning but very cold, very hard fishing. When the sun came out things improved a lot and fish seemed to be moving around more.

10 Trout

Most of this beat was very shallow. I looked in all the deeper pools but couldn't see any fish, although they are no doubt in there somewhere. I needed smaller flies than I possessed for this water, so didn't do much fishing.
Before I started, a chap stopped on the road and reversed up the path, saying he hadn't seen an angler there for years. He said he and friends used to catch salmon parr there in their youth, and that there was much more water flowing down it then. Some of what he was telling me echoed OB's last report for this beat from 2011.
I was also warned about boars and sure enough I encountered one by the water which probably had young ones hidden somewhere. It didn't like my presence and I kept my distance.

Cold and windy day overcast and some rain.
Mid day a very brief hatch of March Browns which saw a few fish rise. Rain came back in and hatch and feed stopped.
No fish caught but still a great day.

Had a couple of hours fishing single bead head and picked up half dozen or so. Few olives mid day but nothing rising.

7 Trout

Nil fish caught. Weather hail and blustery with big wave swell. Fished ledger with worm and no success.

Fished down left bank from the top from 0900, spinning as water level was quite high (1'6') but falling - wading is ok but banks are wet mud so take care. Island fishing well, good for fly or spinners. Kelt caught & returned on spinner (red flying C) - 28 inches long / 7lbs in The Maddox in early pm - just where the notes say the hot-spot is located, 15-20 yards downstream of the rocks. Had a tug or two on the fly in the Vanstone later in the afternoon. Sunny, windy but not much rain - looking forward to my next outing.

1 Other

Worked my way up stream and caught mostly on weighted PTN, had last fish on a emerger pattern as I saw the odd fish rising to the Large dark olives hatching off.

4 Trout

Managed 2 hours late in the afternoon. Fished rock pool in a cold, wintery upstream wind. No sign of fish.

Excellent fly water but a tad on the high side. Caught a surprise 12 or so pound pike and a 7lb kelt on the fly. Other than caught fish I didn't see others. Did though sit and watch kites, buzzards, a mink and canoes.

1 Pike, 1 Other

Blank. First time I have fished Caradoc, and the owner and gillie Jerry were both extremely helpful. I found a deep upper section, casting from cribs and generally suitable for spinning (which I duly did), but some interesting fly water at the bottom end, with wading about as easy as it gets. You can drive the whole section. A day of sunshine and storms, and a whole succession of single and double rainbows, one of which distinctly ended in the river. No, it didn't mark the location of a silver springer!