When i arrived at the car park at 5.00pm the weather was warm, sunny and humid and the Trout were rising like crazy!
Some Trout were taking insects with a splash, others with a gentle sip, and the only obvious flies about were spinners.
On went the recently successful Balloon Caddis and a fish came quickly, but after a quite spell i switched to a Grey Emerger. This proved to be a good move as Trout came to hand on this throughout the evening and later to a Sulphur Emerger.
The fishing was good with plenty of Trout being caught to 13" and lots lost.
I have been amazed that these small rivers have such a healthy head of Trout, due mainly to good invertebrate life and plenty of cover from predators.
Its sad that once great rivers like the Irfon in Wales now have a much reduced population of Trout, probably because of acidification in its upper reaches, which has had an adverse effect on the invertebrate life of the river.
On the downside a poacher was seen fishing our water with worms, he was asked to leave and his car registration number was taken.
Monkshood was seen growing alongside the Ledwyche.
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