Dermot Speight and Mike Gadd
caught 18 to 4lb 8oz off the top from a drifting boat, while John McGarrell was among the fish again with 17 to 4lb on size 12 olive CDC Shuttlecocks.
They reexamined their maps showing where previous expeditions had
caught larvae, and they discussed oceanographic data about the temperature and salinity of that region.
Taffs Well angler Roger Martin reached the eight-fish catch-andrelease limit on one visit fishing a gold head damsel nymph well down then followed up with six and five fish catches, while Keith Higgins tempted his eight rainbows with buzzers and also
caught a brace from the bottom pond.
FONTBURN RESERVOIR' 01669 621368/ NE61 4PL Some 141 anglers
caught 217 trout to 5lb.
Other returns Hury: 63 anglers
caught 176 trout to 3lb.
Dave Price stayed on the bank when he visited the bottom pond but he still managed to catch five rainbows by casting from the dam and that's where Lindsey Kirkwood and Wynne Jones both netted three trout while Alan Rees and Martin Williams both
caught two.
John Lawton and John Brennand
caught 21 trout between them, returning seven.
Returns: 67 bait and 16 fly anglers
caught 276 rainbows to 4lb 12oz and 34 browns to 3lb.
Ethan Bowen and Kyle Every
caught well from the Aberdare AA club boat while Tim Gunter bank-fished successfully with evening catches on sedges and small emerger pattern flies.
Matty Divine
caught 16 rainbows, which included a tagged fish worth PS200.
Sean Thomas
caught 11 to 5lb 8oz on orange flexi worms from the dam, while Steve Mills
caught 10 to 4lb 4oz from the dam.
Wyn Evans used a black buzzer for his four fish 12.5lb bag; a Diawl Bach worked for Daniel Morris who
caught three rainbows weighing 10.25lb but it was a damsel nymph that Rory Morgan used to net three rainbows over 3lb.