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The river was low and clear, with little fly come off the water. Saw a few small fish in the deeper holes, but pretty quiet. A great place to pass a few hours.

What a beautiful location. Fished for 1 hour with nymph and dry but no sign of any fish, probably too low and clear. Must invest in good pair of waders and wading boots before returning as terrain is very challenging!

Last visit to this stream this year, to find the trout extremely aware of anything slightly unusual, like a rod and fisherman trying to be invisible.... Tempted 3 at 6"-9" on paras, and pleased with that on another glorious day in the hills.

3 Trout

8 x trout 6-10 inches, Rusty Klinkhammer. It's a while since I did this one. I found it quite difficult fishing until reaching the upper part of the beat. The excuses I can make are a rather chilly early morning start, low clear water, spooky trout lying on the pool tails, etc etc. But never mind the fishing; the important thing, of which I am most proud, is I did the whole beat from the white poles leading into the gorge at the bottom end right up to the top and then tramped back miles on the road through Crickadarn in the midday sun. Maybe I am not as old as I thought was? (Enigmatic smile from my wife who just read this).

8 Trout

Tough fishing, water very low. Did not manage to catch any fish but did spook some!

Quite a challenge working out the best approach to get to the water without breaking your neck, but once this was sorted out, very wild fishing indeed, water was a little to low for it to fish well, and as a result no fish were caught, lovely quite day, would definitely go back.

Set in a steep (vertical in places) sided gorge with moss covered rocks and many fallen trees criss-crossing the stream, this was exactly the sort of fishing I was after.
Care needed to be taken when accessing the beat as some of the path had eroded away, no doubt after the recent heavy rains. These rains however meant that the water appeared to be at a normal levels.
I fished the beat from 7am-9am, fishing Tenkara style with a short (for Tenkara) 10ft rod which was perfect. All fish fell to a GRHE spider variant and all were returned.
I lost count after the first 10 fish or so. The largest two were 10 and 14 inches. The later a cock with kyped jaw and striped flanks, taken in a relatively small pool at the end of the beat! Fantastic!

10 Trout

Great days fishing on this magical stream. Seemed to catch it just right; river fairly low but with a tinge of colour after the previous days rain. Caught countless trout in the 6-8 inch range, with 3 trout in the 10-12 inch range. Every likely looking pool produced a trout. Fished a black magic nymph under an elk hair caddis. Fish came to both.

15 Trout

River at bare bones level, at least I could check out the make up of the deep pools for future use. Trout very wary, caught 7 up to 7" from the now short faster streams. All on small paras.

7 Trout

Home decorating responsibilities met, at last able to get out again! Went for the extreme in canyon Clettwr to find varied fly life all day but only saw one rise. Many pools changed with old trees gone and some more recent additions, its a new experience every time. Caught 10 between 5 and 10", mainly on PT and Hares Ear nymphs under a klink, with 3 off the surface. No sign of the bigger brethren.

10 Trout