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At 8am the days fishing started on the downstream end of the Abernant section. The river was slightly coloured from recent rainfall and with a decent flow. During the morning 4 x WTB were caught on adam's wolff/para patterns with quite a few more being missed. All fish being approx 1/2lb and returned safely.

The adam's patterns have fished consistantly well for me on both rivers since early June and seem to be a good starting place for anglers visiting beats for the 1st time or when there is no specific insect life to target. I took 1 x 1/2lb grayling shortly after lunch on a very small BH diawl bach fished under the adam's parachute kiwi style.

I moved upstream to the Plas Gwyn section in the middle of the afternoon but given the river conditions on the day I decided that wading into the river from the right bank to facilitate fishing was solely restricted to fearless or accompanied anglers. So it was at this time that I decided to call it a day. Luckily for me just as the torrential rain began.

All in all another great days fishing provided by the WUF.

2 small trout on Pheasant Tail nymph, both returned.
Although I had not made any arrangement with Stuart Jarvis he took time to give me advice. The wind was unhelpful and very few fish were rising in the daytime.

10 trout landed. Small brown trout mostly. 3 brown trout at 1/4 lb.

Most successful dry fly was the Iron blue most successful wet fly black hackle with red collar, 14 hook. Quite difficult to gain access (due to steep inclines and trees) to the lower beat regions for the deeper water pools. My son found it much easier than I did to get to these inticing fishing spots. Please try to make it a little easier for the oldies!

All in all a lovely place to spend the day. Thank you.

1 Barbel and 2 Chub on pellets. Fishing very hard even though the conditions were good. River very weedy could not fish some of the swims due to this.

Very wet, downstream wind. Nothing rising but even nymphs didn't produce. Gave up after 3 hours to dry out!

Nothing caught - one salmon showed in the Vanstone.

4 July Hindwell Knill R23: 6 x trout to 12 inches, Klinkhammer and Goldbead Hare's Ear. Lots of small trout. Mink present, and also signal crayfish. Nothing much hatching.

About 15 trout caught between us. Mixture of dries and small gold heads the latter taking the most. Managed to get the car about a mile down the track then walked the rest.

9 barbel to 8 lb, plus a couple of chub. (3 rods)

River full of shad. Unfortunately no salmon seen.