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Water high but clear-ish. Modest hatch of large olives, with sporadic rises, around lunch-time. Got two good fish of 15 and 16 inches, the larger evidently a stockie, on nymph - wet fly, it seems (being employed by Brecon AA opposite), would have worked better. Lost one good fish on dries. 10 pound salmon, not quite fresh, seen twice in same place - ie apparently holding there.

2 Trout

Real mixed bag of weather, sun, cloud, rain and hail. River dropping after Tuesday's deluge but level made wading challenging and unable to reach the middle of the river to cast under the trees, a prime spot on this beat.
Mixed hatch, with the odd flurry of LDO's in the afternoon but nothing really rising. Nymphed most of the day. 6 thumping wbt caught, 5 over 12 inches, best around 15". One caught on a dry late afternoon, all returned. Given the forecast earlier in the week much better than expected.
If you plan to fish this beat the track to car park 2 is a challenge, best negotiated in a 4 x 4 or with similar clearance.

6 Trout

An afternoon of rain, interspersed with occasional bursts of bright sun, culminating in hail at which point I gave up. Much time spent sheltering under the trees but the sunny intervals brought on small hatches and a few fish to the rise, none of which I caught.

Fished wet and dry fly and nymph. Dry conditions on 7th, but
consistant rain and wind on 8th and 9th. Although no fish caught, I still enjoyed fishing these
beautiful scenic waters.

Thank you for arranging the fishing at Fenni Fach on Saturday. A glorious spring day with a respectable hatch of olives through the middle of the day. Three lovely trout caught and safely released - a 16 incher and two 14s.

3 Trout

Fished a duo. Klinkhammer and nymph, fish took the nymph. Nice hatch around lunchtime. Should have caught more but missed plenty of strikes. Still cold, rainy and windy. Rivers started to colour and rise in the afternoon, called it a day at 4pm.

1 Trout

Weather was worst than I had hoped for, overcast with squally showers and also pretty cold. The river was low and pretty clear.
When I started at 1130 there was no sign of fly life or rising fish. As the day progressed a light trickle of LDO came off with the odd March Brown. A couple of fish began rising.
Caught a couple of rising fish on Orange and Partridge fished downstream and allowed to dead drift over the fish. Apart from that pretty hard work

2 Trout

No fish caught. Very sunny and we only saw one fish (after we had spooked it!).

Lovely day on the water. Very cold, but good to be out. Water temperature was 3 degrees all day. Air temp 4 degrees with freezing wind chill. The old kelly kettle and the sight of dippers kept spirits high. Reasonable LDO hatch at 1pm and some fish randomly rising at 3pm for about 5-10 minutes. In my excitement I managed to put all rising fish down, but it was still great be out on the water after a cold winter. Dippers, grey wagtails and much more all in attendance.... Many thanks WUF for another lovely day. No trout caught this time, but I will be back when water temperature is more conducive to feeding trout.

It is two years since I fished this beat and the access to the river has been greatly improved with a number of styles in place. I should have taken a wading stick (probably my age). It was cold but there was a hatch that got going around 11.30am which were small brown olives. I managed my only trout with a copper head brown nymph size 16 fished upstream with an indicator - size was around 1lb 1/4. As the day went on we found a still piece of water just down from the vicarage pool where fish were rising but our flies did not interest them. We met the owner who was very helpful as I had not fished the top end of the beat before. We packed in at 4.00pm as we were frozen.

1 Trout