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We fished the Abernant beat in bad weather conditions...most of the time some 'mild to heavy' rain. We fished most of our time the Lady Alexanders pool. We enjoyed seeing a lot of salmon jumping about, but could only catch two moderate sized graylings on a weighted nymph in the main chanel. I had one bigger fish on the hook for about 20sec. but this fish came loose in the end. Probably a trout.
I also tried to wade the 'stone catch', but it felt to tricky to risk too much. The bank (left side) of the "Abernant stream" was difficult to walk, so I fished only the end of this part without any sign of a fish.
There was no surface activity the whole day so we only tried to have some luck by nymphing and a few times a wet fly.
Loved the day, but fishing was a challenge.

2 Grayling

7 Grayling

A lovely, warm and mainly cloudy day with little wind, and the LS guage at 12". Came expecting to fish nymphs until / if fish started to rise, but found PWs coming off at arrival and fish rising, presumably to emergent nymphs but also taking drifting duns. So I put on a small, pale HE Duck's Dun which has served me well over the last eight weeks and fished it most of the day. I tried variously-dressed tungsten beads in between times but there really wasn't much need as fish were rising somewhere, or at least looking up, until about 3.30 p.m. With such an early hatch, the more typical hatch from midday onwards into mid-afternoon really didn't appear - perhaps not too surprising. Most grayling were 10-12" with just three of 13-14" , but all most welcome. What a delight to be fishing an emerger for most of the day when we are almost into November. Fish also still feeding in the margins in quite shallow water. May the warm settled weather continue please! Finally A HUGE THANK YOU to the riparian owner for arranging for the bank-side clearance to be done in the upper half of the beat. I felt so much safer than two months ago making my way up the margins there and back! And the path now even goes as far as the Edw. Well done!

2 Trout, 21 Grayling

A lovely beat, there were a few fly hatching, but not enough to bring the Grayling up consistently , there were plenty of "occasional" risers but nothing that you could target. Probably spent to long after the rising fish, heavy nymphs produced the one fish of the day, although spiders did get a few plucks. Mid Wales is stunning at the moment.

1 Grayling

12 grayling to 1.5lb and a couple of out of season trout. First time Czech nymphing so very pleased! Will be back to try again once I find out where my waders are leaking from! (Water is starting to get cold!)

2 Trout, 12 Grayling

Mild calm day offered good conditions. Enjoyed some good sport including watching various salmon showing throughout the beat. Access was excellent with evidence of what must have been a large job to clear the foot path along the river bank.

4 Trout, 5 Grayling

It was time to dust off the centrepin and have a go at trotting maggots for the Grayling at Abernant. The river level was the lowest I have seen it here but the weather conditions were perfect and the Grayling were very keen with a fish first cast and the first hour very hectic. Sport slowed as I had caught most of the shoal but still managed to catch approximately 40 Grayling. I weighed one fish at 1lb 9ozs and had a couple of others about the same size but most fish were 8ozs to 1lb.

40 Grayling

flyfishing with dry flies emerger white or pale size 20
Grayling size between 35cm and 40cm

5 Trout, 12 Grayling

Chilly grey day but stuck with dry fly and caught in 3 1/2 hour slots of activity. 7 grayling, a couple at 14" and nothing smaller than 10" caught on a variety of flies and a couple of oos trout, one about 12" and one so small I thought I have hooked yet another leaf.
Glad I wore thermals as by mid-afternoon was losing circulation in fingers.

7 Grayling

Fab day. A great lesson with Jonathan Morris, sorted out my salmon and switch casting mistakes. What a pleasant instructor with great knowledge of salmon fishing, gave me some very useful tips. After all that no fish seen or caught. On the 15th on the town water several moved in the fly fun, great to see.