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Water still pretty high at just under 2 ft on the LLanstephan gauge, but running fairly clear and not too many leaves. Client CE from Cardiff took 22 grayling by various methods: dry fly, wet fly and trotting. Best fish 15, 16 and 17 inches. I think one out of season trout.

22 Grayling

The first cold morning of the autumn, the river had come down and was no longer coloured so all in all good conditions for trotting for grayling. Caught 15 grayling in around 3 hours, along with some trout. Most fish were quite small, up to about a pound, until the last trot of the morning when I hooked a very big grayling which managed to shed the hook as I was fumbling for the net. An excellent excuse to come back and give it another go!

8 Trout, 15 Grayling

16 x grayling, all shotts of 8-12 inches, 6 x out of season trout 10-14 inches, dry Sturdy's Fancy and Grayling Steel Blue plus a few on flame tail wets - Red Tag etc. It took a while to locate the grayling after recent floods. A dark, gloomy day with quite a bit of rain although river stayed at 1ft 6 inches while I was there.

16 Grayling

Three grayling around 10" caught on spider and nymph

3 Grayling

beautiful calm sunny day. No leaves on the water, the river ran smoothly. 7 grayling succumbed to a dry hopper fly no more the 20 feet out from the bank.

7 Grayling

green klinkhammer
very windy, lots of leaves on the river, difficult conditions, easy access to the river

2 Grayling

11lbs hen fish from Abernant Stream @ 1300 followed by 9lbs cock fish, Lady's pool @ 1400, both coloured but still in solid condition, quickly returned. Also one fish lost in Edw pool in the morning and a few more seen moving. Good day on the river by any standards. Thank you.

2 Salmon, 6 Trout

Water very high but 6 x grayling for client, on old-fashioned flies, Grayling Witch, Grayling Steel Blue, fished wet and dry.

6 Grayling