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7 x grayling 12-16 inches, on a team of leaded wet flies fished at range. A very cold and foggy day in the valley, with the sun just peeping over the mountain about 2 in the afternoon for a short period. Air temperature 1-4 degrees. Water at mid-level and very clear now. Quite hard work, but the very occasional grayling was rising and the takes (many missed) were mostly in mid-water. Grayling Steel Blue on the top dropper got most of them.

7 Grayling

Very hard going and that was just the wading. Nice water will be back in spring time

First trip of 2017 turned out to be a difficult cold day, in low clear water conditions. Deep nymphing, which we considered would probably be the most productive method, produced just 1 grayling, 1 oos trout, and a small salmon kelt. The day was saved somewhat by a small flurry of activity as a few Large dark olives drifted past, and caught the attention of a couple of decent sized grayling. 5, I think were taken on dry olive patterns before the wind, and failing light put a stop to activities. A good day to be out though, on what is a fantastic upper Wye beat.

1 Trout, 6 Grayling, 1 Other

A good day on a lovely bit of water up at Craig Lyn with some nice grayling on nymphs & dries up to a 1 1/2lb or so with the odd trout & a small kelt cock salmon in the mix too. Nice to meet the owner - Sean top bloke - will be back again.

1 Other

The temperature gauge read minus seven on arrival and four hours later read minus two. One 12 inch grayling from Ash Tree pool seemed a good reason for a complete novice to call it a day and head for some warmth. Beautiful countryside and river, will return on a warmer day.

1 Grayling

I fished as a guest of the owner of the stretch. The fishing was hard with a lot of search fishing. We covered a lot of water trying to find a pod of grayling. There was a lot of salmon parr, there were also two large salmon going around on the surface in one of the pools, a lovely sight to watch.

3 Grayling, 8 Other

Very warm day for December but difficult fishing. Couldn't get any takes czech nymphing but finally took a very small grayling off the top late afternoon.

1 Grayling

Fished French leader till 11 oclock with only one missed take on the top end pools then picked up two grayling in Ashtree pool in the deeper gutter in the tail of the fast run moved downstream to Abercymrin pool found the fish also in the deeper tail changed set up to conventional fly line to fish the slower deeper runs using a three team cast 4mm Hare's Ear, Holy Grail and Pink Shrimp on top dropper with a cast up stream to get flies hard on the bottom the majority of the fish came to the shrimp picked nothing up then till Penalo pool 1.30 small dark olives were coming off my usual go to olive cdc only rose one fish, changed to grey klinkhammer bingo had one trout 4 grayling in the next half hour then that was that ,high light of the day stood up on the high bank looking down onn the river just above harries pocket watching 2 salmon chase each other arroud in 1.5 feet of water magic

2 Trout, 14 Grayling

No fish caught

Beautiful beat, well maintained and perfect for a grayling day. River looked to be flushed through following last week's rain and was very clear. Wading here is mixed with some impossibly deep pools and slippery bedrock, but it's possible to get a line to plenty of good looking spots. Managed 16 grayling, best was 19", and 3 trout. Most fell to a pink shrimp or ptn red tag. There was a hatch around mid-day and for half an hour grayling were rising all over the pool and I took 8 on the same olive emerger pattern.
Struggled a bit with cold hands and feet today and needed to take frequent breaks to thaw out, but well worth it.

3 Trout, 16 Grayling