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Very pleasant day in the Honddu valley, river very clear but the recent rain has helped clear it a little. Olives hatching but not many rises, but I tempted trout from many of the faster or streamier runs, eventually landing 9 to 11" on small paras and dries. Kingfishers, water birds, and buzzards flying around, but also some plastic bags etc and tin drinks cans in and around the water - mainly I guess from the campsites next to the river. Removed what I could.

9 Trout

Spent 3 hours along the beat, took 1 trout on dry and lost 1 other. Field had campers in at two places.
Pleasant beat, except for a couple of dead sheep near water.

1 Trout

Fished this beat for 2hrs, caught 1 trout on a dhe , missed takes and lost fish.

1 Trout

4 Trout

Sunny day with light wind, the river was running beautifully with a very slight tinge of colour. This was my first trip to this lovely little river, which unfortunately ended in a blank. I did lose a small fish on the last pool and I may have missed a couple of bites too.
Didn't see a single fish rise despite there being a small hatch, on one pool I sat and watched flies landing and skating on the water. I sat patiently, expecting a fish to take but nothing happened. I will be back to this pleasant river once it switches on.

First time on this beat, parking directions were excellent. A warm day and the river was pretty low as was to be expected, only fished to the farm and caught a few fish up to 8", but none of the bigger fish I was hoping for. Until the last run of the day when I hooked into a absolute beautiful trout of 13"-14". All fish caught on a nymph all safely returned. A really enjoyable day on a lovely little river.

5 Trout

River was brown but fining from flood. This is a lovely stretch of river, but challenging fishing, with lots of overhanging trees and roots underwater. It's a pretty small stream on this beat. Caught four on the duo (nymph and dry fly), lost several more, and missed many takes. Best fish was around 25cm, but lost a larger one that dived into a tangle of roots. Take a good stock of your favourite flies, as the trees will eat them!

4 Trout

River low and clear but relatively clean, a small flush Tuesday? Saw no trout and no interest in dries or klink/nymph duo, till later in the afternoon the trout looked up. Landed 5 very fit trout at 8" to 10", and missed a couple, on a small grey/blue para. A pleasant day, except at about 6, near the top of the beat, a thickening grey stain appeared from upstream, I do not know where from- no sign of distressed fish and the dippers were still active, but I stopped fishing. Hope its nothing serious.

5 Trout

Gorgeous setting but no joy. Very little fish activity. Nothing caught

Another swelteringly hot June day, but this was the only free time I had, so I had to fish. Yet again this was another beautiful and picturesque Honddu beat. There is no doubt that it was hot (around 28 degrees I would imagine, but luckily there was occasionally a slight cooling breeze) but the majority of this stretch is shaded by trees, so it is fishable. Considering the weather we have been having there was a healthy flow, with a bit of colour, but of course it could do with a bit more depth.

It was the usual varied Honddu terrain, a mixture of small pools and runs, some fast water and some slow, good small stream variety. I’m not sure what the deal here is with camping, but in the second half of the beat (past the old bridge) there were people camping, and unfortunately rubbish (beer boxes, clothing, general rubbish and there was even a blow-up dinghy in the middle of the stream!). Up to the bridge is great, but if there are people camping I would be tempted to maybe stop there, or a few hundred further metres up.

Fished with Klinkhammer and nymph, most taken on the nymph but two on the Klinkhammer. Missed a few, but caught 3 WBT in the morning, then a couple before a late lunch. Had snooze in the hot afternoon, then fished from around 5-8pm. Caught another 9, mainly between 5.30 and 7.30, after that it went very quiet. All returned. Sizes from around 6-12”, and all looking very healthy.

14 Trout