River Dee

This week i had a couple of days with Phil on the River Dee at Llangollen. It was a gorgeous place in the valley and even had a Steam train chuffing past every hour or so.

It started off great and before Phil had chance to tackle up i had this really nice Grayling on bank. I saw a fish rise in the fast water and cast my black link a few feet above and as it drifted down it came up and took it.

The wind was a bit cool and very gusty. Unfortunately it was downstream and into me so casting was not great and as much as we persevered with dries it may not have been the most productive method The weather was a bit better on the second day at least no cold wind! I cast at quite a number of fish with the dries but struggled to find what they wanted. We switched over to beads in the afternoon and Phil managed to catch a Sea Trout of at least a pound. A first for him and it made the trip.