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Brilliant setting and promising looking water. Unfortunately still a bit high from rain this week.

Challenging day with high wind and rain, some colour in the water. I caught three wbt, approx 6-8 inches in lovely condition, two on gold head ptn and one on a parachute Adams. Beat is quite overgrown with an influx of Himalayan Balsam in places which could be a problem if left unchecked.

3 Trout

Blank for salmon. The first day I have managed to get for myself for salmon at Goodrich this year, booked a week ago, but conditions were not exactly what I hoped for: pretty high water with a certain amount of debris coming down, although the colour was not too thick and the level dropped as the day went on. It turned out to be hard work. Nothing touched, although one of the other rods had a small fish follow a spinner and I saw one fish move in Vanstone.

Fished hard on the fly all day despite poor conditions. No fish caught but a decent salmon seen at Little Run at 9.00am.

Small grayling caught using Czech nymphing. River was clear and steady pace.

1 Grayling

Weather was abysmal, heavy rain and gales for most of the day. Fished nymphs in the morning, missed one take on a hare's ear. Switched to lures when casting anything lighter became impossible. Caught 2 trout, both returned.

2 Trout

Water rose very quickly, plenty of 8" brown trout, netted 3, lost a dozen!

3 Trout

Water coloured up and high after over night rain. Explored the beat but did not fish.

If I had not pre-booked, pre-planned and pre-paid this particular day to fish the Llynfi Dulais I would have stayed in the hotel bar! The weather was atrocious with 20mph wind (gusting to 30mph) and bouts of heavy rain.
However, this small venue provided a very enjoyable experience. The first 50 metres were quite difficult to fish due to tree overhangs, branches and high banks but small brown trout were teased out of the shallow riffles with gold head PTNs.
Fished upstream with a simple flick of the short leader (heavier than normal due to the strong, gusting wind) allowed the weighty nymphs enough time to sink and search the turbulent water.
Having spotted a couple of rising fish I changed to a 'high vis' Klinkhammer and added the PTN as a dropper from the point fly (New Zealand style). This was a good move as 50% of the fish caught came up to the dry fly - As we all know, this is what it's all about!
Water levels were high and moving fast but after a slow start I enjoyed 5 hours of wild stream fishing (I had to rush the last part) and managed 13 fish (the largest being 5.5 inches). So much fun that I forgot about the poor weather!
All fish returned.
NB.1. This beat is best fished by wading upstream.
NB.2. Please add a marker or illustrate on the map where the beat ends - It's not that easy to find!

13 Trout

Fished with fly and spinner. Nothing seen or touched. Water too high for wading to allow for fishing the fly down most of the favourable areas of the beat.