Friday, July 4, 2008

River irfon,30th june

Had a very enjoyable few days break near to builth wells.
stayed in a lodge right next to the river irfon just
upstream from the larder pool.On arrival peered into
the river to be greeted with a shoal of fish ranging from
1lb upto 4lb ,on closer inspection realised that these
lumps were in fact chub .pictured below is the larder pool
which i fished a couple of times but only caught a few trout
and a couple of grayling.

As you can see in the picture below the water was very
clear and quite low making a stealthy approach very
difficult.This being a fly fishing only river i would have
targeted the chub but most of the chub sat outside
someones lodge waiting to be fed great clumps of hovis.
I don't think me catching their "pets" would have gone
down to well.
It was a nice change to fish outside of derbyshire with
the emphasis on the surroundings not the quantity of fish
that i caught.
On reflection i would like to spend more time a bit closer
to the elan valley which me and the wife really enjoyed
and shall go back soon



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