July is a complete wash out!

The whole month of July has been a complete washout. With up to 15 inches of rain across the country it has been the wettest July since records began!

The river has been up and down like a whores draws! I haven't even bothered going down there since the 11th July. Poor old Rod is on the river this week for his annual weeks holiday but doesn't seem to be doing much good! He's had 4 small sewin, 2 on a spinner and 2 on the worm! WORM? Rod, that's not like you - fishing a WORM! All I can say is that things must be getting desperate for Rod to start worming.

Having spoken to Rod this morning he tells me that he is sat in his car and hasn't even attempted to start fishing yet! It's pissing down!

Oh well, lets hope that August is our saviour!

Wednesday 11th July 2007 - water too high for the fly!

Would you believe it - my rod tip has come from Sage! Naturally I couldn't wait to get down the river to try my new rod out again. This time it remained in it's case for the whole journey and will do so for as long as I can be bothered to excercise some degree of caution! Not long probably!

Went down to the river in the hope that the fly would be on! Parked at Pumping Station and walked across the fields to the river. Got 3/4 the way across the river and had 75mm to spare below the top of my chest waders so I had to turn back. The water was pretty clear, not pres tine but probably OK. Drove up to the road bridge but there was no chance of fishing there! At least 6 cars were parked on our side of the river! The only other place I could go was the Car Park Pool so off I went. (Cerith went down the bottom so we could meet up but our rendezvous never materialised!

The Car Park Pool was running fast. I would say that the river was about 300mm to 400mm above normal. I fished until about 12.00. Didn't see a single fish, no knocks, nothing! To make things worse it was raining again, quite heavy!

A total wasted journey I suppose! Still, lets hope the river settles down now and that we have some dry weather for a few weeks. Enough is enough!

PS:- Cerith - I finally got your other fishy pictures and have incorporated some of them into my previous piece about your monster catch! Thanks mate!

Tight lines everyone!

Cerith gets a specimen sewin!

Well done Cerith for catching this monster hen sewin! For most it is the fish of a lifetime. It is also very pleasing that he donated it to the hatchery. A fish of this age must be either very clever and resilient or just plain lucky! Which ever the case hopefully her eggs will provide equally resilient fish for us to catch in the future. This was 1 of 10 fish that Cerith caught last week, many of which were returned to fight another day. Very commendable Cerith!

A fish of a lifetime - a 15 1/4 lb Sewin about to leave for the hatchery!

And some more!

This is Ceriths own account of what happened!

I had some holidays booked this week, and have managed a few fish on worm and spinner through the week.I fished Llangadog AA monday evening down by Bethlehem. The river was very high and dirty so I fished the worm along the edges and back eddies. I hooked and caught a 4lb sea trout within the first hour and had a few other decent knocks. But the real fun happened aroud 6.30 when a cracking fish took my single worm and shot off down stream. I knew i had a good fish on, and was pretty sure that it would be a double figure fish. After about 20 min I landed a cracking sea trout.luckily the fish was hooked in the scisors and I had a tether handy in my pocket. I quickly tethered the fish and released it back into some quiet back water. I phoned Viv at the hatchery and explained that i had a good sized hen sea trout, and sugested that he came down to have a look and see if he wanted it for the hatchery.To cut a long story short Viv and Olwen took the fish back to the hatchery and after the fish had settled down in the tank agreed to weigh the fish.Olwen e-mailed me today and confirmed that the fish weighed 15.25 lbs.After 25 years fishing I finally have a Tywi double figure sea trout.Im sure that if my grandfather can see me now he would be very happy indeed. He was a great teacher.

DiolchDwrgi

A lovely brace of sewin!

Well done mate, you deserve it!

Anyway, enough of this excitement, here are some pictures that I took when I was down in Llangadog the week before last!

My camp site right next to the river

Farmer Ken's old tractor - 1960 ish I think!

That's about the best that I can do - amateur photographer and Blog Manager!