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Well having had a ball up at Claerwen reservoir yesterday , early bells , with a perfect overcast morning and a lovely ripple , was nice tweeking back traditional wets in the wave for some aggressive takes, and eighteen beauties to the net , so thought I'd try and carry on the motion and headed to the Edw , at Hundred House , one of my old favourite rivers . . . .

Was six when I got down to a very shrunken river , opting this morning to mainly fush tiny dries were possible , so on with a tiny Parachute iron blue , they did seem to hammer this last season , so prospecting with it , and first fish , good feisty take too the dry , quickly released , about eight inches .

On the deeper pools , an olive tungsten nymph or PTN worked well and dud have three cracking fish in a tally of fifteen this morning , superb sport on the light six foot two weight rod !!! One of the brownies must have pushed seventeen inches, a real lunker !!!

Plenty of activity from the kingfishers and being in their normal highway route several times had to do
a last minute swerve yo avoid me !!! Superb to see though and perhaps this years brood ??

Asyou go further up this beat , more and more trees are down here , which is a shame, reminds me a bit of the Arrow at Kington , great at the bottom section , but a shambles up near the top of the beat !!!

Still some fabulous sport this morning , with the fifteen yo hand, and five or six slipping the hook , this little river needs some serious rain to freshen it up, although the brownies fought like tigers !!! The fish today ranged from six inches up to the big one I had , with most in the eight ish bracket . A great five hours ,calling it a day just after eleven , a slow mooch back to the truck for a well earned can of pop and a choggie bar , happy days, back here soon !!!!

15 Trout

2 Trout

1 Trout

1 Trout

Fishing difficult in the morning.Had first two on a spinner and the third bubble float with worm

3 Trout

River was running at twice the summer level which meant a strong flow of water pushing through. This wouldn’t normally have been too much of an issue but a strong gusting down steam wind hampered casting. DC managed the two trout, one at 6” and the other 8”. He also got bust by a good fish as well.
My sorry effort resulted in three long releases and three or four strong tugs on the nymphs. I did manage to foul hook a minnow though, poor little bugger.

2 Trout

Great day at the stones, fish fell to meat and bread on the bottom. Barbel to 8lb and Chub to 4.5lb

8 Barbel, 23 Chub

4 anglers 5 trout caught on worm plus a couple of pirch

5 Trout

Slow during the day apart from moderate sized chub on the float. Barbel from 6pm. A very pleasant beat with a variety of swims.

4 Barbel, 8 Chub

Good conditions, path is in terrible condition as someone else mentioned. About one fish rising every hour with frequency picking up about 8.30pm to a lot more jumping. Best fishing spots were occupied until late by locals swimming which seems to be a regular thing based on other comments.

No interest at all on a variety of dry flies I tried including gnats and olives.

Not suitable at all for bank fishers like me and you will need waders to get anywhere decent. Guidance on the website should be updated to reflect that. Was poor value for money and I wont return