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This is possible one the best bag of six wild trout to a single rod in an afternoon of any of the Foundations waters. Actually 12 where caught but only 6 photographed (all returned). They ranged in size from 13.5 inches to 19.5 to the fork in the tail. They were caught on various nymphs of my tying (not good I may add) and on two separate rigs and styles of fishing. They where in excellent condition and when hooked went off like an express train.

Here is a link to photos on Flickr and a little write up from Jari in Finnish and translated to English

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=kim%20tribe%20flyfishingwales&w=all&m=tags

When I planned my trip to Wales I accidentally founded Kim Tribes web pages and I realised that I could travel without all my stuff. I have fly fished occasionally 20-years so I thought I would not need a guide, they are for beginners. After a while with Kim I realised that I was fishing with a person who has much to give for everyone. It was first quite new to fish with a person who gives advices and comments all I did. One Finnish commercial says "so good that you can’t say" which suits well the day with Kim. In four hours we got 6 big trout, biggest 49,5cm. This was more than we both thought before the day.

4x Brown Trout - dry fly - between 1-1.5 lbs. All returned safely.

Excellent fishing. Excellent & convenient service with good information.

True to my word I returned to the Ty-Newydd beat yesturday and wasn't dissappointed. I fished the beat between 11am and 5pm and applied the "If it ain't broke don't fix it" approach to my tactics. A grey/white parachute brought 2 x grayling(1.5lb and 1lb) and 1 x brown trout(1lb)to the net within the 1st 20 minutes. A quiet spell of about an hour followed so I moved upstream to the slower water and between 1 & 5pm a constant stream of fish and missed fish followed (1 even snapping my 3lb leader on a big run), the fish (approx 15;a mixture of trout & grayling) netted were smaller specimens all in the 10-14Oz bracket but good fun anyway. All fish were returned. This beat is proving to be one of my favourites and I hope to return again soon.

10 trout caught on gold head nymph, 3 fish over a 1lb, one near 2lb, I have a good photo if you want to see it. Only saw 5 fish rise all day. No fish taken.

4 Chub all under 2lbs, 16 Barbel to 9lb 14ozs (New P.B.). All on Halibut Pellets. The top half of this stretch is well overgrown and difficult to spot the swims, but the river seems full of Barbel of a good average size. All Barbel caught in a busy 5 hour period from dawn to about 10.00 am and then bites dried up (perhaps I had caught them all!). What a great start to the season. Many thanks to W&UF for giving us the opportunity to fish stretches like this.

Thanks for recommending Dan-y-Warren - absolutely perfect for a man in a suit with waders in his boot!(which I was - following a meeting in Usk at lunchtime)

I spent 2 pleasurable hours there and took six trout - the biggest of which was about 1.25 lbs. The cool wind kept the fish down, and the successful flies were spiders (snipe and purple) and czech nymphs.

First stop R. Hindwell. Always had good catches here but today was different. River looked in good fettle at first glance, a bit low maybe anyway I thought I would give it a try.

Fished from about 8 am till about 10 and only managed 1 small brownie taked on a GH PTN. The river was lower and much clearer than I thought. Nothing showing apart from the bottom! I gave up and moved down to The Noke. Again I've had mixed days here. The Arrow was low but very fishable, but you need jungle warfare training to get to some of the pools! Total for the day 9 or 10 (I lost count!) grayling from 8 to 14 inches. 6 trout, best over the pound mark. Lost a large trout below bridge and a big grayling further down the river, probably because using barbless hooks.
Fish taken on either GH Ptn or Adams. Not many fish showing and no noticable fly hatch, probably because of the cooler weather. All fish returned. Tricky fishing due to the rather blustery conditions.

Six brown trout to 10 inches all returned, 5 on GRHE, 1 on Bibio, beautiful beat.

Thanks for a really good day we caught approx 25 brown trout up to 1lb 8oz and 10 grayling all around the 1lb mark.

Weather conditions good with some cloud cover although high winds made fishing problematic at times. Water levels a little low although didn't adversely affect the fishing. Fishing was slow although many trout and salmon parr caught, and 5 or 6 browns at 3 to 5oz and one caught late afternoon of 1.8lbs at the top of the beat just above the bridge. All fish returned and caught on variously Sawyer's ptn and small parachutes.

Much wildlife in evidence such as: a pair of otters, mink, spotted flycatchers, red kites, pied wagtails, dippers and kingfishers.

Generally a delightful place to fish and the camping at the nearby farm was excellent. Foundation's service was excellent and look forward to booking with them again sometime this season.