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Another excellent beat with a great pool at the lower end and two massive deep pots towards the top. In the field with the footbridge there is now a campsite so dogs, kids, plastic rafts and caches of cooling beer were the main things in the river around there. Didn't spoil the fishing. Water was slightly coloured and there were only a few Mayfly coming off. Did well with a cdc emerger at first and later took trout on mayfly patterns. Caught on very nice trout in the faster glide coming into the "red pool" towards the top of the beat.

5 Trout

Strted 8am. Lots of fly hatches, fished from lowest section up to Penpont House. Fish were scarce, not many seen. Tied nymph and dry. Had a 22.5cm trout at 4pm. Hard but pleasant day on the river.

1 Trout

Very bright and warm for most of the day. Some great fish(2lb+) spotted swimming between pools, but none could be tempted to show an interest. Definitely worth another visit soon.

River fallen to normal height but still running strongly. Trout from 4oz to a pound and a half - all lovely fish.Taken on dry fly. Hackled light brown or dun coloured flies , fished either purposefully to the odd rising fish or more often fished "blind" in riffles. Easily accessible bit of river just downstream of Talybont bridge but much of the stretch difficult to access from Ashford house side because of steep banks and overgrown willows and other trees. Nonetheless an excellent day trout fishing.

20 Trout

2 wbt (on dry fly) caught and returned. Abundant fly life but very coloured water following yesterdays heavy rain.

2 Trout

30th May, Steve Grimwood caught 2 salmon, a 10lb and 20lb on Devon minnow-Llysdinam.
This morning (31st May), Robin Woods caught a 21lb salmon (personal best) and lost one other on rapala. Also caught a 4lb brown trout again at Llysdinam.

WUF Note: Incorrectly attributed to Doldowlod when first submitted. This has been corrected

3 Salmon, 1 Trout

Bagged 4 fish on Marabou Damsel Nymph before lunch. Bright, sunny day. Breeze picked up after lunch making things very difficult. Enjoyable day nevertheless.

4 Trout

18 x trout 6-10 inches. Lest I should be accused of telling stretchers, I should mention that, with two exceptions, the majority of these trout were nearer 6 inches than 10. Much nearer. Apart from those which just made it to the 6 inch barrier, some of the pools were full of little fellows of 4 and 5 inches just desperate to drown a Klinkhammer. If you looked closely at those which stayed on, you could see that many of these tiddlers looked more like small adults than parr. Rather like my local Blackpool Brook. My first time on the Upper Cilieni and it's an interesting stream - a proper wild one and a real jungle down at the bottom end; a bit more open above the bridge where you park. Not quite a typical upland stream with a bottom of gravel and some very deep silty pools. Unusual vegetation with water celery, yellow flag on the margin in places and hornwort in some of the still pools. I found lots of shrimp, baetis nymphs, caddis and stone fly. I wouldn't be surprised if there were may fly, given the silty bottom in places, although, at this altitude, they might show later than elsewhere in the catchment. A few olive uprights were about but nothing rising, so I went prospecting with a Tan Klinkhammer. I am sure there must be some bigger fish; doubtless a cannibal trout will surprise somebody sooner or later. A delightful day in a very pretty valley.

18 Trout

1 very small brown trout caught and returned. Spinning, worm and fly used with no other bites.

All fish took olive dry, and black f- fly. lost a proper clunker which was attached to tanago rod for 5-10 minutes and at the net spat hook, easily a pound and quarter. Found the tanago rod very useful today with limited backcast on fly rod.

14 Trout