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Only fished part of the beat, water still a bit colored from the recent rain. One nice grayling about 12 inch, all trout where on the small side between 6 and 9 inch. No rising fish at all.

6 Trout, 1 Grayling

16+ trout to hand and 1 grayling all taken on nymphs in the fast water at heads of pools . There were a few rising fish but these all looked juvenile trout so carried on nymphing. This was the first time I fished this beat and I quite like it, the lower half had more pools holding some nice trout and the further up you go there is some good dry fly water. I did not make it anywhere near the end so the top third I cannot comment on but what was fished is nice water. Unlike the lower beat on the Llynfi Dulais, this one is much more open and was able to use my 7ft cane rod with no worries of it crashing into overhead branches.

16 Trout, 1 Grayling

Started at 10......absolutely no fly life nor fish despite favourable weather.......finally a small fish on a GRH nymph size 16....decided to move on at 1pm.

1 Trout

A lovely but tricky river to fish. Water very clear so fish were easily spooked. Saying that there weren't many fish around to spook, but fishing likely pools worked and landed 2 fish of a pound each. For the size of river it was nice catching fish of that size, both returned.

2 Trout

One grayling - about 11 inches (released)

1 Grayling

One small trout (released)

1 Trout

Fished both the lower and middle beats in a day. The lower beat was overgrown all the way up, so fished a short line (sort of) Czech style to explore the nooks and crannies. Caught one small brownie, but tough going as low and clear.
The middle beat has a few more open spots, and took two fish, around 9" from the large pool in the middle of the beat and the one immediately below it. Where you can cast properly I caught. Lovely beat, although narrows considerably towards the top of the beat.
Flies were a tungsten head nymph with pink hotspot on the point and copper John on the dropper. 2 of the three took the point fly.

2 Trout

Water levels low and clear. Numerous takes to Adams, cdc emerger and gold head hares ear nymph, but none brought to hand. Beautiful sunny day which made spotting easy but they could also see me.

A challenging but enjoyable first attempt at Welsh wild stream fishing. The water levels were low and clear, the fauna was in a 'catch-all' mood and the fish were spooky. One of us used a dry fly on one rod while the other used a Klink and dink.
Under the guidance of Oliver Burch, my brother and I learned a lot on how to go about fishing these charming waters. A very enjoyable day's fishing. Would recommend a day with Oliver to anyone - Thanks.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling

Only small trout caught (6-8 inch). Fished this beat a couple of hours, but will come back if there is more water.

4 Trout