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What a difference a day makes !!!
The river had dropped overnight and the chocolate brown colour had gone to be replaced by a pleasing greyish green and the air temperature was up several degrees. We felt confident and doubled up in one swim.
A lovely 8lbs barbel first cast and the bites continued at regular intervals. 8 barbel in total - five over 8 lbs with the best 8.12 lbs plus three over 6lbs. Also one chub of 4lbs. A great day on our favourite W&U stretch!

8 Barbel, 1 Chub

One barbel about 6-7 lb but very windy and cold water rising again

1 Barbel

would have caught zero but for good old Colin the bailiff who moved as to a spot and we then caught . what a gem he is

1 Barbel, 12 Chub

I arrived at 7.10am to find RB there and parked up just off the track.On doing the same, within 5 minutes we discovered our 2WD drive cars were both stuck! After some careful placement of branches and pushing, to our relief we were able to help each other out! Despite being relatively fit and having a ground spike and rope with me, I opted to play safe, and went down to the bottom swim opposite the castle, and RB and I fished next to each other. River was around 1.2m on the local gauge with some colour, and the rain was doing its thing in the morning, clearing up by noon-ish.
Using a mix of meat and GB feeder or maggot feeder, I was able to bring a steady stream of chub to the net over the day, most 3-4lb, with the biggest just over 4lb. it was great to see RB bring a wonderful chub to the net - it looked enormous! Stephan appeared mid-morning, and as usual, was helpful in his advice.
This beat is a good year round venue, in the same bracket as How Caple Court.

13 Chub

2 Chub

4 Barbel

Caught all fish in the evening on maggots.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

2 Trout

Was nice to park up at the lovely Aberedw beat ..... i was in two minds wether to try Cregrina, but that bedrock is pretty hazardous and the river was pushing through in fairness ......
Only a couple of hours, with other more pressing things the week previous, hence nog getting out on opening day ... gggrrrrrr !!!! Was nice to bring five crackers to the net, nothing huge, still a bit silvery sizes between eight and eleven inches .... two on tungsten hares ear nymphs and three on a small sculpin pattern stripped back erratically!!! And that was fun !!! They hammered it !!! Great fun .... hungry early season Edw fish after a decent meal !! I know here holds stacks of bullheads and Stone loach, so this little pattern did the business , big time .... one fish was only about ten inches but he literally smashed ot two tweets back after landing!!! Bloody great start !!! Still a fair height up and lots of in and out of thr River this morning..... back to wild streams ..... ooohhhhhh how I've missed you !!! Those lively feisty edw fush, great fun !!! Got back to my truck, tucked in to my Aldi chicken and mushroom slice and a classic jive bar !!!!! Lol !!!! A nice mug from my flask.... a grand start to my season ..... lovely job !!! A wild llyn mid week .... then into next month thr first clients are out in the Elan Valley ...... love it !!!!

5 Trout

1 Trout