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Very low water but at least its still cool.
Fished upstream of the bridge and managed to pick a couple of trout out of the deeper runs.

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Caught 1 small trout to south of bridge in cregrina among the rocks on small nymph Quite a few fish taking flies along the whole beat But only managed 1 more on grey /pale cream parachute fly only of 6 inches Missed 4 other takes on same fly Just need to recover now from the assault course

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Started the day at a buddies farm over Herefordshire, having a recce for some bunny bashing, later on in the Summer, then onwards to the Arrow at Whittern. Fished quickly between the two bridges, nothing looking up in that hour and a quarter, river at a great height, could perhaps do with a flush through, fish will be looking up very soon here !!
Onwards to s favourite local beat, thd Edw .... Fished from three till five . Plenty of insects to keep them looking up !!! Had some fun in the pocket water... fast as adders, managed five to the net ... only small chaps great fun on the dries though ......
A real Spring day with lambs, snakes head fritillary bordering the Artow, and watching a pair of dippers which was amusing...A fab couple of hours on what Is now nearly a river on its bones !!!! In April too ...But, the long range forecast does look more like April. With heavy showers and supposedly prolonged boughts of rain!!! We shall see ....Right, lots of leg work done, cider time !!!!! Lol .....

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Wow, fantastic weather today !!! Looks decent all week in fairness....15 degrees maybe a tad more this afternoon, when I parked up by the bridge at 1145am. Insect on the go, s goof few large Darks, some March Brown's and even sedges seen about oneish !! The party of flying ravers certainly had the Edw trout looking up !!! Impressive stuff, stayed on ting dries all afternoon.
On this beat, I fished up to the bridge fish in thf fast stuff, nailing my dry!!! Superb sport, tis as if overnight we've jumped into mid May !!!
Fish between six and ten inches today, lovely confident takes on mh dry !!! Just love fishing my favourite small streams outfit, mh six foot , one weight fun fun , fun !!!
More skinned frogs seen and quite a few along the whole of the section I fished...looks like I may have just missed Tarka !!! Fresh prints everywhere !!@
Lovely two hour session, chilled out having my lunch at the bridge,decided with the day being do productive, I'd have a mooch up the road to Hergest !! We are in dire need of water to be honest !!
Packed kit in thd back of mh truck, onwards yo Hergest !!! A cracking little session fishing a single dry, on a favourite beat ....with seven or eight beauties to the net ....Happy days!!!

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Funny sort of weather this morning!!! 13 degrees overcast, much like October tbh !! I decided I'd give the edw a crack , been a while since I've given this trib a fish ....
Got to the Cregrina bridge about tenish, river looking low and clear ....eeekkkkkk !!! Stealthy tactics today me thinks !! And that was just what was needed, fished dry as always, with my six foot, two weight tod,...and actually from half twelve quite a few rises, especially the tricky calmer water above the bridge to Glan Edw Farm ..Great solid takes to my Para Iron Blue.... spot on !!! Look like the trout were hitting on small black midgy stuff !!! Saw a few mayfly too ..... fantastic !!!!
More fish above the bridge today ...Fished perhaps only fifty yards past the farm, great fun though!!
Eleven brownies to the net, two good fish also self released..Ggggrrrrrrrrr ...... sizes between seven and eleven inches.... Lovely tubby summer fish too !!
Here's hoping for some rain tonight and tommorrow. I think I saw on the met office satellite thingy ....some good amounts of the blue stuff coming over mid Wales anyway ...Perfect, much needed ...Edw, Ithon and Lugg are low ......
Anyway, another lovely session on a favourite beat ... ohhh getting a jungle above the bridge...A pukka cut back and decent tidy up is much needed otherwise we'll loose this cracking beat...Most of my cast were parallel, inches from the waters surface anyway !!! Not ideal casting stance in fairness...Not sure when this beat last had a haircut, not that it matters, trouble is green stuff never stops growing spookily enough !!! These streams need some TLC, simples ..... Right, cold drink time for this callsign !!!lol ....

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Well, a real social wild streams day in a way... initially I went to have a look at the top beat of the Ithon ( Llanddewi ) .... I saw a car in the beat pull in, lower down, mid beat, when I had a recce of that upper stretch, came back down the main drag and had a chat with Adam, a very pleasant chappy ... mentioned I'd fished here yesterday and passed on my tips for success, or at least that works for me !!!
Onwards to Edw, Cregrina .... Sunny and warm when I set up at quarter past twelve .... the breeze got stronger in the afternoon, particularly around two ish.... I only fished up to Glan Edw Farm ,Great sport today, and a few lumps .... I must admit this beat and Hundred House do have some goooooood brownies as residents!!! Water was at 11 degrees and when I set up , reading 18 degrees in my truck dash .....
Fish hammering my dry offerings today, sedge and a few late mays on thr go. Tight accurate placement of the fly needed here .... But lovely takes tbh .... Getting a bit low here if I'm honest ... this becomes a tricky beat in low water ... very clear too !!! Still,managed fourteen lovely Edw fish to my net ... sizes from six to twelve inches , also a good few self released Houdinis!!! They have a skill for that on this beat .....lol !!!!
A fun three and a half hours .... wind started picking up at three,I'd had some good sport, so cut out just before the farm . Enroute home ,a few hundred yards up from the Hundred House beat, I saw a gent putting on waders.... Peter Lloyd, cracking chappy, he was doing some much needed loping of the Hundred House beat. I mentioned to him ,myself and a few of the other wild stream permit holders also take secateurs out on their wade upstream !!! Some are dire, we discussed the demise of some of the older beats and some that are never fished now because they're so overgrown.... Escley, Upper Cilieni, Arrow Monkland, ...... Our rant over was nice also to chat of the fun beats we do have , so not all negative....A fun afternoon, nice to chat to two keen wild stream anglers.... ha, funny really, I've never met another angler in years on these beats ....
Homeward bound and I'm meeting up with two anglers in The Crown later for a couple of well earned scoops !!!! Happy days ......

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Another session on an old favourite, fished today midday to five bells , was 21 degrees in my truck dash when I set up .... ohhhhhhhhh what a difference low and clear makes .... Tricky trout today, lots of very slow wading !!! A hot sultry day, not quite so many mayfly as the other day, but the trout were still smashing the duns then the spinners.....
Started at the very bottom of the beat ... Fishing selective pockets, right up to the bridge.... picking up three or four on the dries .....
Above the bridge up into the jungle, with those slow deep pools was fun,. Up past Glan Edw farm the stream is fantastic ..... Great Savage smash takes to my Wulff patterns .... superb!!! Sixteen or so to the net .... sizes six to eleven inches ..... a few good Edw fish this afternoon too ..... Great fun !! Real tussle on the two weight six foot rod .... love it !!!
This is a long beat you need to fish/ wade slowly .... on several occasions this afternoon I'd gone past an area, only to see a splashy rise tight in the margins behind me !!! Had a couple with a downstream snake cast .... tricky to connect sometimes !! Still fun having a go, and that's what its all about !! I did some experimenting and put on a size twenty f fly .... were the trout Zoned in just on Danica ?????..... definitely not !! These opportunist stream trout are no easy push over, but a well presented dry will see them brought to the net !!! Actually I spent lots of my time redressing my fly this afternoon ..... along with the fish to the net, plenty didn't make it, and politely released themselves...... how kind !!! Lol !!
Anyways, another fun sortie ..... hitting the squirrels later this week here .... start making a dent in their population !!! Home time, and a cold bottle of Katy cider ..... sorted!!!

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My first trip to this beat, and what a beauty!
The wading below the bridge is a bit more difficult, as the brochure says, but manageable. And great pools above.
I only wish that I had been able to land every fish that came to or took my fly. Maybe the Mayfly I was using was too large for these small fish?

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Well , what a totally sublime sporting five hours that was !!! Fished the coloured, tea stained Cregrina beat today, one of my favourites !! She was still carrying a bit of water but workable and , when I parked up at half eleven, saw a couple of Mayflys on the go ....... spot on I thought !!
The fishing below the bridge is tricky in coloured water, in fact dangerous if I'm honest ..... even me as a die hard local i here, doesn't do a lot of this lower beat after rain ..... I have favourite areas that produce fish and move on up the bank, avoiding disco dancing on the bed Rock you can't see .....
Picked up six I think below the Bridge, by half one the party was just bouncing along, with Danica making the fish rise, with violent splashy forms .... Great stuff to see !!! By three it was a full on rave !! Trout rising below me, above me and a yard in front of me !!!!!, in the slower pools ... I caught five from one cracking pool .... Tactically picking off the nearest first and working my cast up!!! Just sublime sport !! One fish was rising so close ... my six foot rod, I literally lowered my treated grey Wulff into the bubble lane, and he hammered it !!!
Put the effort in above the farm and you'll be rewarded with your trout ...Some lumps rising in a very deep pool ... with growth I just couldn't get a cast to him, even a downstream presentation ... up past Glan Edw Farm, tis jungle warfare ..... Needs not just a trim, but a dam good sorting out ... I took secateurs today, and did a bit, and I see Brian must have done some work here last week ..... It needs some serious attention up there in fairness !!!!
Still, fishing was awesome and just a red letter afternoon .... got out fairly knackered at half five ,twenty two fish maybe a few more to the net, lots of self released fish too....all on dries. Sizes from seven to twelve inches I'd say .... cracking stuff . Had a good chat with the farmer, who was most interested in the fishing and condition of the River etc etc ...... Even got shooting permission there too..... vermin control and a major thin out of pesky grey squirrels .... The sheep creep with lamb feed in it,had eight squirrels bomb bursting out of it when I walked past it first thing this morning!!!! I'll soon wade into those numbers !!!!! Anyway a fab day on a great beat ...... maybe the Lugg or Arrow tommoz ..... Happy Days !!!!

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