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Both blanked. Squally wind made casting difficult.

Still a great spot to put a line in the water.

A really niggling bloody annoying Easterly wind this morning, before the quick journey from Rhayader to the Edw @ Hundred House beat ......
Set off half eleven .... reading 13 in my wagon that... looked promising !!! The wind picked up .... just a pain and made dry fly presentation tough going ...
I fished the top hundred yards of Cregrina..Strewth I've got some work here when the trout season finishes !! Needs a serious haircut!! The bottom of the beat , going just hundred yards up from the bridge, I completed winter time ..... Now, the rivers looking like it could do with a week of rain, and a dam good flush through !!!!
I waded up slowly from just after twelve... A few bugs on the go, but nothing like three days ago ...No wind would have made it the perfect dry fly day !!!
Managed six little chaps ... two were risers, the remainder, speculative trouty locations. In the fast stuff . A few large brook duns and olives on the go from about quarter to one....
Again, on the lower hundred house beat, skinned frogs present .... Tarka has been absolutely nailing the Edw frog population ....
A fun session on an old favourite beat .... A good drop of rain and a flush through needed here ...In fact all rivers will be nearly on their bones !!!
The Leominster / Hereford contingent I'd be having a crack on the Upper Lugg and Arrow at Kington about now ...Worth a couple of hours mid afternoon??? Have Arrow Kington and the Lugg at Litton gone out of trend or something??? Great dry fly sport on both those .... I'll certainly get over on one of them into next week after some local bunny bashing with the .22 ....
Anyway , back to The Ponderosa, and a well earned pint of Thatchers cider on The Crown, after anothef cracking stream sortie ............. cheers !!!!

6 Trout

No fly life to speak of, no fish seen, rain badly needed

A lovely few hours on this beat. No real hatch/rise today. All caught on a jingler in the faster runs. River desperately needs some rain!

9 Trout

Well, a niggling easterly with a bit of poke today, we’ve had it for a few days now, getting a bit annoying to say the least !!!! I opted for the Hundred House beat today, see how she goes ….. I bowled up at the bridge, at quarter to twelve….. Jeeeeeeeeeez, she looked lower than the Hergest beat, from the bridge view point !!!! We need some serious rain. The Edw, and probably the Wye and all her tribs, need a dam good flush through ……
I did start a hundred yards below the bridge, strictly speaking in the Cregrina beat, looked fishy, one of the pool heads from the bridge, and in fact she was, first one of the day, on my dry offering ….. yaaaaaaaay, a nice start !!!! Large brook duns and olives were on the go from about quarter to one … so not bad timing today….. at least even with the horrid east wind, there were some bugs showing . As I tackled up, it was reading 14 degrees in my truck at ten to twelve …. Not tooooooo bad !!!
It certainly wasn’t as lively as three days ago …. Had it not been for that wind, dry fly sport would have been excellent ….. wading is a slow affair now, with these being so low….
The Hereford / Leominster contingent, I’d be giving the Arrow at Kington or the Lugg at Litton a good bash on an afternoon stint … I’ll be on one of them, if not both next week, it’s all about giving them a go …..see if the trout are looking up on those beats !!! A couple of hours midday till two tells you a lot about the state of play !!!!
So, a difficult, but rewarding session, six wee chaps , nothing big, in fact all between six and eight inches… but, two were risers, and the others speculative casts into trouty territory …. Produced the desired splashy rise to my dry !!! Always fun on this beat, lots of new pools, masses of woody obstructions for trout refuge, and some nice dry fly areas too !!! Wild streams always do their own thing … You can trim them back, but they’ll never be tamed !!!! Hoping for this east wind to alter to at least the north or better still south west !!! Here’s hoping, and looks like no rain for quite a while too …. It’ll be the River Elan and the big reservoirs soon then …. Right, off to The Crown in Rhayader for a well earned pint of the good stuff ……. Cheers folks !!!!!

6 Trout

Great day, beautiful river and nature!
Only one big fish (lost during ferocious fight:-)
Windy afternoon.

quite a few fish showing ,bright sunshine , very clear , alot of olives on the wing but the fish were not interested tried an olive nymph and emerger but nothing then a small bead grhe and i was in to fish 3 plus 2 turn overs all this in just over 1hr

3 Trout

Saw no fish caught no fish!
Not easy this spring salmon fishing!

A bright day & low clear water with algae developing on gravels in slower pools. Saw just the one rising fish & missed its take to my dry. Otherwise a quiet but enjoyable afternoon. Dippers & signs of otters.

8 Trout