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Abundance of fly life on glorious day. Good hatches of olives late morning produced rising fish all day - most taken on CDC emergers on bottom beat. Mainly juvenile WBT but splattering of grayling as well (prize catch near 2 pounds).

10 Trout, 6 Grayling

Warm bright day with goodish olive hatches. Fenni Fach is a beautiful wild stretch of water, heavily wooded with challenging slippery wading and many overgrown banks. Sporadic rising fish taking olives, I caught five to roughly one and an half pounds in weight, all on small weighted hares ear fished upstream.

5 Trout

Lovely day. Lovely Water. Lovely conditions. Ruined by canoes. Perhaps 250 before lunch? Like fishing in a busy boating lake. Gave up at lunch time where we could bare it no more.

Nothing doing. Plenty of recreational traffic in the forest park (including a major campsite opposite), but none of the fishy kind in the river. The fly water around the footbridge looked decent, if brown-tinted. I guess this is not particularly holding water - you have to be lucky to come across a run of fish. Fell in just as the canoes started, about 12.

A mild and sunny day. Fished all afternoon going through the fly box with drys and nymphs but with only 2 takes to small black gnats. A stark contrast to Friday's fishing in Abergavenny on a wild blowy day when the fish were savagely taking mayflys and large olives.

All cath and release. The river was in very good condition.
Fished with dry flies. Only one problem, in one of the pools I had to swim (10 metres free swim) due to new fence built in one side and a big ground slope on the other side.
There was 100m upstream from the wastewater treatment plant.
Otherwise, it was a great day.

5 Trout

A distinct change in the weather overnight. Sunny, warmer and, most importantly, the wind had dropped. Fenni Fach is a beautiful beat, but never easy fishing. Water low and very clear, which made the wading much more manageable. Steady hatch throughout the day, but fish activity was sporadic, concentrated around lunchtime. Of the trout caught, 4 were very good fish in the 1.25 - 1.5 lb range. 2 to heavy nymph fished deep at head of pools; 2 to klinkhammer towards the tail.

7 Trout

Fished from 4 to 7pm. Lots of fly life - mostly olives, midges and a few yellow may duns - but not many fish rising. Found some coming to the surface in the Lower Craiglyn Pool and had a couple of small trout there to a cdc olive. Missed quite a few other takes, mostly on klinkhammer and nymph before ending with a superb 2lb 4oz (weighed in net) out of season grayling on a nymph from the tail of Llandiro Pool.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

A difficult day with very cold water and bright sun, there were a couple of hatches during the day with a reasonable amount of olives and sedges,very few mayfly. There was little in the way of rising fish.
The river has been quite scoured by flooding since last year and I found that previously wadeable areas were a bit too risky.
Fished with an F fly to catch the fish caught, tried a GRHE nymph but to no avail, will be back next week, hopefully to find the trout are feeding well.

2 Trout

Second visit to the pool. On the first, though my brother and I caught nothing, we did observe a number of carp feeding avidly upon our arrival, though this seemed to end quite quickly with our presence.
With this in mind, planned an early start this time and arrived at around 7.00am. Took a stalking rod and went along the pool; given the somewhat cold overnight temperature it was not surprising that I saw very little activity for an hour or so.
Eventually found carp bubbling, cast to them, after a short while the float slid away and I hooked something that went off like a scalded cat, stripping about 30 yards of line off the centrepin! After an interesting fight in the shallow water, I netted a Common that I estimated to be about 8/9lb.
As the day progressed and warmed somewhat, a number of carp were seen cruising on or just below the surface and at one point I had a group of three fish taking floaters, though very spasmodically. As one of the other anglers who has previously visited the pool commented, I don't think that there is a massive haed of carp in the pool, though given the number of places they can take refuge that might be a dangerous assertion to make. During the day there was a fair amount of activity along the far bank, particularly in the corner, to the left of what I take to be the monk and I also watched one or two fish moving slowly under the overhanging branches of trees on the island. There were a few intermittent flurries of activity at the back of the island, which could have been fish trying to spawn.
My brother fished a small method feeder, across on the far bank where we had seen carp activity and had a 3lb bream mid-afternoon.
Like so many WUF waters this is another venue that affords visitors the ultimate in peace and tranquility - though the main road runs quite close to the estate,you pretty quickly find that the traffic becomes insignificant.

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