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