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The weather was bright and sunny, but the morning frost persisted through most of the days fishing. Nothing showing, so the fish were caught on small nymphs fished deep.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

2 salmon parr.

2 Other

A blank ! But what a beautiful stretch of river - a pleasure just to be out on it. Whatever nymphs I tried were either wrong or cast to the wrong place - my fault and hopefully I will come back.

Good to be back on the Irfon after 8 years. Water height looked good, no rising fish. Hard going.

2 Trout, 3 Grayling

Great to be back, nothing rising all day. Hard going today, my banker pools seemed devoid of grayling, just small trout. Finally encountered a few grayling after lunch, all a decent size, sadly only 2 stuck both big grayling.

3 Trout, 2 Grayling

A lot of leaves, literally millions over two days, made fishing difficult. Very disappointed to find the first two swims downstream of the church had fallen trees which rendered them unfishable. Given these swims have the deeper, steadier flow they are very different from the rest of the stretch and it would have been nice to be able to access them. The trees had clearly been in the water some time.

8 Trout, 1 Grayling

Day's trotting for grayling. Caught one small grayling and one trout parr. Lots of leaves in the river.

1 Grayling

Day's trotting for grayling. Caught 2 salmon parr and 4 trout parr, no grayling. Lots of leaves in the river.

6 Other

Birthday on the irfon but it seems the grayling didn't want to come to the party, the trout did and they weren't even invited ! Nor were the 50 billion leaves in the water. This beat must rank as one of prettiest most diverse and easiest to fish of all the ones in the passport and I always enjoy being here. Fished nymphs again all day ( still no sign of fish rising) grayling and trout to 13" and 5 parr.

16 Trout, 2 Grayling, 5 Other

A lovely beat but suffering with low water levels despite the gauge at 0.553. Water running clear in shallows and tinged at knee height. The grayling were hard to find but I had success in slower deeper water.
Weather conditions were gusting wind with intermittent drizzle. I used the tried and trusted "British Nymph" rig: a 4# 10ft rod & line and 2 nymphs under a bung. A Jonathan Barnes weighted Polyphaetis Nymph was preferred by the 5 grayling that gave themselves up to the net.

5 Grayling