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First time on this beat. I can't say I was impressed as the access to swims was very poor. If the ground was wet it would have been necessary to drop in on sky hooks! There were two which you could access but the levels were quite low and there was a great deal of weed which ended up with tackle losses and only a few fish. 1 Barbel, 1 Chub and strangely 1 eel on a huge lump of luncheon meat.

1 trout and 1 grayling, bloth taken in an Adams

I fished morning through to mid afternoon for trout and grayling. A lovely stretch although a little daunting because of the size and number of pools. I caught a couple of grayling Czech nymphing on the upper rock pool and ended up on the main bend down by the Rectory just as the evening rise kicked off. If I had stayed, I am convinced I could have had a couple of the large browns I saw jump.

Travelled from Suffolk but even with a very early start wasn't fishing until 9am.
4 - nil to the barbel by 11am, then two were landed at around the 4lbs mark. A move to the Wharfe pool resulted in a two hour blank, and a move back to the last swim and a switch to luncheon meat immediately resulted in a number of "unhitable" bites, smaller hook and smaller Meat revealed the culprit to be an Eel, duly landed at about 1lbs. Back on the Halibut pellet resulted in the best fish of the day a Barbel, not 10lbs but certainly 9lbs+ and lost another that felt bigger. A further move back by the car park for the evening session proved to be a disappointment with no fish caught.
All in all a great day out on a fabulous stretch of water. However be aware that most of the swims are extremely snaggy and you can expect to loose a LOT of gear (and fish).

Fished the obvious powerline peg. Managed to land 4 barbel around 5lbs but several others lost due to snags, rocks etc. I finished early as I ran out of feeders !! Be careful seems to be very snaggy.

1 x 30 inch hen fish, silver-bright, on a size 10 Bann Shrimp from the tail of the Boat Pool. Good fly-fishing water for this beat with a tinge of colour - 1 foot 5 inches on Llanstephan gauge.

B S had another of similar size while spinning higher water on Sunday. This puts Pwll y Faedda on 20 so far this season.

The river was a little coloured but lot's of fish rising. Decided to stick with dries - plenty of sedge and sporadic varying up-winged hatches through the day.
What an amazing days fishing it turned into. Biggest trout weighing in at a pound and a half with a tally of somewhere between 25-35 each (majority on sedge). I stopped counting after about 20, the same went for Andy fishing with me.
Well recommended beat with a good mix of water would like to fish it for salmon in the future.

Fished left bank only. River still a little high and coloured. However I fished the fly as I much prefer it to spinning. No luck so switched to Flying c and after a few casts just below top steps of the Vanstone a salmon took but only stayed on about one minute!
Am putting in a plea for better access to the top pools on the beat as I would dearly like to follow in Pashley's footsteps!

WUF note - Bank clearance and access work is due to carried out on this beat.

8 wbt. Lots of water in the river and very muddy. Clearing later during the day, should be o/k tomorrow.
Good info from WUF on directions and location, etc. Thanks.

Arrived at 2-30pm for the afternoon evening rise, access to the bottom of the beat through the wood was a little bit of a jungle and managed to fall over a fence wire in the grass, head first into stinging nettles, bare arms. I thought they didn't sting this month Ha Ha. Dock leaves to the rescue. What a fantastic job the clearance work has done very easy now to get a cast away. 3 fish to hand back to the bridge, the same amount coming off at the net. Stopped for tea then back to this wonderful beat. 9 more trout to hand all fish around the same size 12/13" mark possible stock. The fish fell to home ties of gold head Nymphs on point and Mayfly patterns on dropper fish were caught on both. Mayfly were flying from 5/9pm, erie really in August. Lots of sedge also, covered 5 rises and all five came to the net. Tactics and casting must be spot on thanks again to Kim Tribe and Frank Williams for without their invaluable tuition times like these would be hard to come by.