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3 Trout, 1 Grayling

Back to the lovely Lynfi Dulais and skipped past the lower section of the beat this time and just worked about the top half and up right up to the boundary. Theres lots of cracking run/riffle/pool sequences and you can wade a long ways indeed once in the water but advise wading very very close to the right bank (ie farm side) at the old footbridge at the back of Tregunter farm! Its gotten very deep under there now! Was a bit surprised at how quiet things where though today, very little mayfly on the go , just a few olives here and there and didnt really respond to just prospecting with a dry fly as usually does. Maybe it was that rather cool pesky north wester wind!

Thousands and thousands of micro caddis homes on the rocks and a reasonable scattering of various olives and included some quite large stone clingers ! Great. Water pushing along very nicely indeed , just a tinge of colour and river bed looking very good , for now. Pulled out or pruned back a good number of pesky branches for the next guy up there.
Just the four to hand this afternoon on a para adams or a klink' . Happy with that all things considered, always seems to fish better to on a warm sunny day down here to me fishing a nice juicy foam beetle.

4 Trout

Much more than great to get back here, a favourite stream of mine. Fished the upper part of this beat mostly right to top boundary as there's so many good runs, literally one after the other. The usual battle actually getting in to the river (been a good growing year it seems) but once in then its pretty much wadeable all the way up and a fab place to be on a bright hot day. Lots of shade in the river! The usual keeping low and going along very slow, it really can pay here.

Fairly quiet on top though today , just a few mayfly and odds n sods coming off and fish not really reacting that much to the speculative casts which was unusual and the fish seemed to be much more interested in a chunky black foam beetle than any mayfly pattern today. Water looked really great, good level, clear and cool and the bed very clean indeed and the usual thousands upon thousands of the micro caddis homes on the stones.

So , it was just the two this afternoon, quite good fish though for here at 10" & 12" and in really superb condition and really strong too. Happy with that! Emerged out of the river in the evening and the meadows where full of various olive spinner doing their thing backlit by the sinking sun. Had to leave though for the long journey back home.
All just fabulous and can't wait to get back.

There's quite a few less obstructions in/over the river up there now btw as I pulled them out whilst working up.

2 Trout

3 Trout

Quite a warm afternoon so was hoping for some mayfly action. Flies hatching and fish rising when I arrived at 2.30 so fished a mayfly klinkhammer. 5 nice sized trout to hand missed as many.

5 Trout

Fished from 9 until 2 to beat the heat although it was pretty cool in the stream with all the overhanging trees. A few mayfly spinners from the day before but none seen hatching. Mainly fished duo and all but 2 fish on the nymph.

Some nice runs but overall pretty overgrown,I was fishing a 6’6 rod and that was plenty.

9 Trout, 1 Grayling

I had 2 concerns about fishing this and the Llynfi Talgarth beats: 1, the recent Llynfi pollution spill but the WUF Office confirmed that the incident had only affected the Pontithel beat, and 2, recent reports that the river was choked with trees and guarded by impenetrable barbed wire. I found fish, and found few more downed trees or little more barbed wire than is common on many of the Wild Stream beats I have fished. A good challenge.

1 Trout

Barbed wire and extremely dense plant growth all along the beat make almost a fortress of it. This didn’t make me feel welcome. Having overcome these barriers, the exuberant vegetation limits casting highly (in summer only?).
This day the water was far from clear. Two rises seen, followed by two brown trout of 7 inches each on cdc march brown and cdc loop wing caddis. Nymphing without any result.

2 Trout

Plenty of fly life but not many rises

3 Trout