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A lovely day - generally quite sunny with a bit of cloud, and pretty calm apart from an intermittent pesky upstream wind, which didn't help presentation at times, but helped to get the leaf off the trees plus the bugs that come with them, so plenty of fish in the leaf and foam lanes. Water low at 5" on the Llanstephan guage. Some small olives and PWs came off in the morning then fewer in the afternoon, plus some needle flies and latterly a few caddis. Fish were rising from our somewhat late 10 a.m. start until a 6 p.m. finish when we had to drag ourselves away in spite of fish still rising. It should have been "grayling heaven" and indeed it was. Most of the grayling were in the familiar 8-10" class but four 12", two 13", one 14" and one 16", one and a half pounder, put in an appearance as well. All fish were taken off the top, mainly on small hare's ear and darkish olive emergers. We tried nymphs and spiders when the fish were not rising but failed to move anything, either in the pools, necks or the streamier water. The trout, the best of which was 12", were also taken off the top, as were a few graylets. A wonderful day all round!

4 Trout, 55 Grayling

Not the best start to the day, whilst traversing the path to the lower section I slipped and tumbled 25 feet down the bank, breaking my rod in the process!(lucky I had a spare). The water had a hint of colour and managed to catch several fish - grayling all 10 to 12" and biggest trout was about 1.75 pound - and to cap the day off, I fell over in 3 feet of water! Sometimes 1 wading stick is just not enough!

4 Trout, 13 Grayling

A couple of grayling just short of the lb mark a few trout around the half pound mark the rest were little including a couple of dace (very pretty little fish!). All were taken on size 16 nymphs!

5 Trout, 6 Grayling, 2 Other

Low water and bright sun all day but still managed to take fish up to 12 inches throughout the day. Excellent fishing. I can not wait to return.

8 Grayling

Water was very low, lots of cloud. Fished a dry fly all day and missed more fish than I caught. Biggest grayling was 15 inch all the way down to a little salmon par. Beautiful beat, beautiful river.

3 Trout, 11 Grayling, 1 Other

Grayling caught on orange and partridge, trout on nymphs.

11 Trout, 3 Grayling

Two 8-10" trout caught on nymph and released.

2 Trout

14 grayling of about 8"-10", three trout up to 10" and a couple of salmon parr on size 16 spiders and PTN. Weather: warm and humid with the odd shower.
Although several grayling took at or close to the surface, I suspect fish are starting to drop deeper.

3 Trout, 14 Grayling, 2 Other

Easy access and easy to find. Caught a whopper compared to what I normally get, around 18" and struggled to get it into my small landing net. It was caught on a pink gold head nymph size 18 on a new Zealand style rig. No fish rising but a lovely day as the fish I caught was in the morning.

1 Grayling

6 Trout, 21 Grayling