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I took my cousin on his first ever salmon fishing trip and he caught his first salmon, 8lb lightly coloured female fish which was returned on spinner.

1 Salmon, 10 Trout

Very pleasant day's fishing. Trout small - one about 12inch and two around 6inches, water clear.
Talybont Railway Station Inn, excellent for drink and snack lunch close to top of beat.
Access not easy for half beat.

3 Trout

It was a tough day's fishing but a great day. Access was very tricky as the bracken and Himalayan balsam has overwhelmed the banks. Earlier in the year, it's presence was barely noticeable. There were few rises throughout the day although there were trout clearly feeding by the wall at about 6pm. I only caught on nymphs as I couldn't match the hatch!

3 Trout

Nice river difficult fishing only managed to connect with one small brown about 9" to a bead head nymph fished duo.

1 Trout

Weather mixed (cloudy and sunny periods). Two missed fish Iron Blue dun. One fish lost - Grey Klinkhammer. Access difficult beyond second field but a lovey afternoon nonetheless.

Hoped I would see some more water in the river after the lightning storms we had in Worcestershire the day before, but the level was still very low and the cloud cover quickly burnt off to produce another hot, bright day. Sporadic rises from fish through the beat, but tough to find a consistent riser during the day. Picked up a couple of little brownies on leaded nymphs in the deeper pools but struggled with the dry fly until dusk. Fish started rising properly as the light faded and had another 4 fish best about 1/2 pound on a small klinkhammer fished in a couple of the faster glides at the top of the beat.
Saw two of the fattest Kingfishers I have ever seen which are obviously feasting on the large numbers of Parr in the shallows. Unfortunately the beat was disturbed by illegal canoeists who despite my explaining the situation, did not leave, but were at least polite and apologetic.

6 Trout

Fished 11am to 7pm, several lost in the morning. Fishing grey wolf with size 16 pheasant tail copper nymph New Zealand style. Late afternoon after 4pm, several hatches took small brown trout in the rougher water, some to the dry and some to the nymph. Access tricky in places but great fun, water was low, very bright conditions, tough fishing.

8 Trout

Hot sunny day - some sporadic surface feeding, both fish (small) on Para-Adams size 18.

2 Trout

Difficult conditions at nearly 30 degrees and cloudless skies. 3 or 4 fish in the half pound range on nymphs during the day. We hoped for a decent evening rise but never fully materialised. A couple of lost fish at last light. Balliff was helpful. Hope for better fishing weather next year. Thanks.

4 Trout

A wonderful day; both warm and sunny and the river lived up to its name, as it was 'abounding in fish'! Unfortunately we didn't catch any! We could not figure out what they were taking. We both tried every fly known to man, and even some fairly heavy handed casting didn't dissuade them.
There are a few lovely pools where one would expect to see salmon, but there were none in evidence.