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A lovely day for the start of the season. Blue skies for a change and no wind! The Honddu was running high, with some colour, thanks to snowmelt coming off the surrounding hills. Water felt like ice. Despite this, there was a hatch of olives around mid-day, but no rises. Slow going, but we landed half a dozen fish to nymphs between us and lost a couple. Best fish was 1.5lb to RM, in cracking condition for the time of year. Be warned, the banks are liquid mud in several places, especially around the sheep pens on the lower section.

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Spent a lovely afternoon fishing but alas drew a blank.. Tried a mixture of flies / presentations mainly beaded PTN or olive and think I had a tentative knock but no fish.. saw one rise later in the afternoon on one of the slower pools but that was it... I obviously need to improve my techique next time. There was quite a lot of "wash down" rubbish on the banks, mainly black polythene but otherwise relatively easy access to the water and most of the banks.. pity there isnt an exit away from the water towards the upper end of the beat (I didnt see one) other than the main access path as it felt like a long slog back mainly wading back up the river...

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River very low, small amount of fly life but no signs of any fish. Camping rubbish left on river bank.

Nothing caught

Lovely Beat, very low water and euro nymphing proved to be hard work, so switched to a Elk Caddis and started getting regular takes, only managed one to the hand but great fun!

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Only fishing a quarter of the beat as I fell in and cut my leg on the rocks but did see a few fish swimming and it looks like kids have been having a fire by the river and a bbq because there was pans in the field and coke cans by the river and a glow stick in a tree, but it did look a really good beat to fish

River freshened just a little by recent rain. One small trout on nymph (beaded GRHE) & one on dry (sedge) where only rising fish spotted. Pleasant location ignoring occasional campers' & agricultural waste.

2 Trout