3 nights on the river with Rod but only 1 fish between us!

Just returned from Llangadog after fishing for 3 nights with Rodney Byles! A few nice fish were showing but all I could muster was a sea trout of about 1.5lbs!

3 nights bring 2 fish and 1 lost!

Spent 3 nights on the river in perfect fishing conditions, warm and still. Lost a good size fish which buried itself in a big clump of weed leaving me with the weed! But I did manage to get a 3lb and a 1.5lb fish both of which were silver and both returned safely. That brings my tally to 4 so far! There are a few fish about now and I saw a couple of big fish jump but didn't want to know my flies. Funnily I met a fellow angler who works for the NRW and when I mentioned to him about the gravel extraction which could ultimately destroy the bottom half of our beat all he could say was 'nobody's got the stomach to do anything about it'! Great - so what does the NRW do? Fuck all it seems to me! Best thing we could all do is to refuse to buy a licence again in my view!

Where have all the fish gone?

Having fished hard for 3 nights this week I could only manage 1 small sea trout of 1.5 lb and a small brown trout! Is it that there aren't any fish around or is it that they are there but don't want to know? Even more disturbing that despite the weather being generally mild and overcast I didn't see a single fish jump or hear any surface activity in a total of 15 or more hours on the river! From my records July is the best month for sea trout by far but this season is looking very doubtful on that score. I feel that I fished very well. I threw long straight lines and fished very carefully all the way down the flats; below the hedge and in my pool but to no avail. Is this unusual? My memory is terrible but probably not! I'm just hoping and praying that fish start running very soon so that we can all enjoy a little sport on the river this season!