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I had a lovely day fishing, cathing 5 brown trout, all returned with care.

5 Browns to 1lb (all returned)
7 Grayling to 1.5lb

Much to my relief, the rain the BBC promised was not to arrive until around 5:00 pm - by which time I was just about ready for home.

As Arthur Ransome would have it, a Day of Small Things with the landing net only required for one of the Browns and one of the Grayling. Not that the size of the fish matters - its that benign moment (Ransome again)when the line straightens or the rising fish engulfs the fly. Not much coming off during the morning but action enough on PTN/Mayfly nympth. Better rise pm - including plenty of Mayflys - which were mostly ignored. Some very warey fish when, in spite of my best efforts (ie staying out of the water and crawling along on hands and knees), time and time again, what appeared to be a confidently feeding fish would melt back into oblivion as soon as I tried to put a fly over it. Red Spinner and Olive Emerger eventually putting a few fish on the bank.

If there is a more picturesque and tranquil piece of water in the county, I am yet to find it .....

Conditions were low and clear. Not many bugs when I was there but started to rain when I left.( It needs it).

Caught 2 finglerings and 1 fish about 16". My personal best from this stretch of water. As usual all fish still swimming.

No fish caught but enjoyable 6 hours on a warm cloudy day, river conditions clear with many mayfly and emergiing dragon flies.

Total of 12 browns between us, 8" to 12", - GRHE or GH nymphs. Also 3 unintentional Shad off the boards below the bridge. All returned in good order.

9 trout, three best fish two of 14" and one of 13", on a Tan Klinkhammer. This was fun! A hot morning with a few mayflies and some of the smaller olives about on the water, but a generalist pattern seemed to work, as is so often the case. The first 14" fish was rising right in the camp-site, among the abandoned barbecue grids and tarzan swinging ropes (admittedly early in the morning). When I reached the top of the beat after a few smaller fish, the weather broke, light rain started and a more general rise began. I picked up the other 14" and 13" fish during the walk back, seeing trout rising now in water I had already covered. What a wonderful little stream! Pay some attention to the ranunculus bed half-way up.

A very convenient beat about 5 miles north of Brecon, with easy access and parking (sadly we saw a pool of windscreen glass in the car park so as ever keep all valuables out of site).

Really sunny day,decent hatch particularly from about 10.30 to midday. Excellent beat with lots of variety. Pretty simple wading for the most part. All three rods fished dry fly patterns all day - small and natural. 8 trout ranging from 5" to 2 hard fighting 14"ers. Such a beautiful day, spent far too much time on the manicured lawn enjoying lunch and savouring the day.

Probably a really good beat if you are fishing the area for the first time. It's a relatively gentle introduction to this terrific river system, with a good head of trout.

1 grayling (10"), 1 brown trout (12") both returned safely.
Nymph fishing in the morning and early afternoon produced 1 grayling plus several delicate takes by grayling but no brown trout. Minimal fly life until mid afternoon when the occasional mayfly, spinner or olive appeared.
Rising trout no where to be seen except in one flat 150 yd long section when I estimate a max of 10 fish could be seen rising. Finally caught one brown trout on a BWO and missed another. The pools provided no sport on nymph (GRHE, PTN) or dry fly. The river was in good physical condition and the weather was warm and bright. The scenery is spectacular. The access between bank and river is very poor - I lost count of the number of times that I had to crawl under barbed wire because there was no stile (following the path of previous anglers). I was wading whenever possible. Overall an interesting experience if slightly disappointing. The lack of visible fish and poor response to nymphing in the deeper pools was disappointing compared to earlier season reports.

2 small trout and 4 salmon parr. Trout to coch-y-bonddu.

3 Trout to 1lb caught and returned. Only fished lower part of the beat where good numbers of fish were evident but mainly feeding on small dead fly (spinners) which neither of us had a decent imitation of! Those we did catch took Ginger Quill or Tups. River condition was low and weather was hot and sunny.