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Around a dozen brownies all in the 9 inch range, all taken on olive cdc emerger bar 2 which were taken on nymph early on. Water conditions were perfect crystal clear. Hooked upto and lost several more, one of which was pushing well over a pound.

One brown trout, weighed around 1.5lbs caught on Daddy Long Legs. Hard going in bright sunshine but nice beat. Good service.

A last minute booking by phone, glad I did! Arrived 5:30 and had a barbel on the bank within 20 minutes (8lb). Two more barbel towards dusk (2.5lb and 7lb). 2oz Feeder (3mm halibut pellets and groundbait with a glug of halibut attractant) with twin 14mm halibut pellet on a hair, long hooklink. Quite a bit of weed but river now quite low (according to Don).
Thanks to Don for his advice on where to fish, and for helping cart some gear along the bank for me! Superb evening - back soon!

1 x Grayling on a Grey Wulff. No fish taken.

One salmon abt 8lbs at 19.15 to stripped Flamethrower, Boat Pool, lost one other and failed to hook another Willow run. I saw six fish, two other fish seen evening wood stretch and at least six fish seen along Legg meadow last two days.

My last visit to Glan-Y-Cafn on a dank day in June was memorable for the quality of the fishing and the fine fish I caught there. Morevoer, it's a beautiful and atmospheric place. This time the sun was bright the temperature about 20c and little to no wind. I arrived late at 3pm thinking to fish the back end into dusk , only to find a group of lads throwing stones into the pool I planned to fish first. They did move on but not long after a few more lads with a couple of dogs turned up and began to play fetch the stick in some of the other pools! This was followed by the appearance of a friendly canoeist who paddled over to see if the fish were biting! I told him in a polite friendly manner that he was not supposed to be canoeing in this stretch. He apologised and said he thought folk could canoe anywhere they chose. Despite my being in a general recreational area on the day, I did manage 3 diminutive WBT on nymphs but nothing to dries. A few fish were rising to olives inbetween disturbances. I left feeling a tad disgruntled by comparison with my last visit to GYC, the day had been a bit of a shower but it was, nevertheless, a lovely afternoon in a lovely location .
PS - I also met a chap with a dog who said he used to poach on this same beat!

A good day with 10 x WBT to 14", all returned. Plenty more missed - could easily have doubled my tally. Several fish taken on red midge pattern fished deep in the morning. Others came up to small F-fly and Olive patterns later on.

Once the mist had burned off it was another warm and sunny day. This is a particularly interesting and beautiful stretch of water. Three trout to hand (best about 8") with several more pricked. All came to weighted nymphs fished upstream. I tried dries but failed to tempt any fish to the surface.

8 barbel landed between 7 and 8.5lb. All the fish were caught towards the top of the beat. All in excellent condition.

Two Chub 3lbs 14oz and 4lbs 11oz total catch from a fishery that didn't match its discription in the Passport. Only top two fields fishable the rest inexcessable. I would reccomend that before the next Passport is published a more realistic write up for the fishery is established so that more travelling anglers like ourselves have a more accurate discription of what to expect. Would not book or reccomend this fishery as it dose not offer value for money.