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Just a couple of hours on the river today. 0.58m on the Cilmery gauge, a bit windy, drizzle & 10 degrees C. All fish caught on a tungsten bead, present tail on a long leader. Wasn't too wet when i arrived so i parked by the church, by the time i had finished fishing the field was saturated and very slippy so definitely head the parking instructions regarding this.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

River at lovelly level good spread of fish all caught on deep nymphs

4 Trout, 6 Grayling

Grayling caught from 2 pools only..other usually productive pools seemed devoid of fish. Last time out in November I had a very distinctive grayling with an edge of its gill cover missing, hasn't learned caught again today and in very good nick.

3 Trout, 11 Grayling

Better conditions for the angler today but the water was fairly coloured. The best grayling went just over 1lb 8oz but once again trout were present in every swim and were unavoidable. Fished the lower end of the stretch from Grandslam down, every swim tried produced.

25 Trout, 3 Grayling

Miserable conditions with freezing rain and 40 mph gusts fairly constant. Far from ideal for trotting and most wouldn't of got out the car but we were rewarded with fairly constant sport. Brownies beat the grayling to the bait in virtually every swim we tried and at times it was a fish a chuck. Trout caught was an estimate, likely more.

40 Trout, 3 Grayling

6 x grayling 6-17 inches, 1 x out of season trout 16 inches, trotting. Hard work to find fish this morning in what was very raw weather - just above freezing and with a bitterly cold wind. The river was clearing, but still rather high. However, there was the odd individual grayling to be found here and there and a couple of them were good ones. The post-spawning trout attacked double maggot while it was being wound back upstream.

6 Grayling

River very clear. Fished for 4 hours so didn't have time to explore the whole beat. All fish caught in the lower half. Three good fish of around 1.5 lb. A lovely setting.

5 Grayling

Another very enjoyable day on the Irfon in near perfect conditions for the time of year. 21 grayling between 2 anglers. River at 0.4m on the Cilmery gauge, overcast, dry and little wind. Grayling were very localised with the majority of fish coming from 2 spots, having tried a large number of likely looking areas throughout the day. Trotting maggots - plans to use the fly rod were abandoned when waders sprung a leak at midday. Saw a salmon jump at the tail of one pool and an otter surf down one of the falls. Largest grayling about 15 inches and many around 12 inches.

2 Trout, 21 Grayling

Lovely day but nothing moving and no hatch. Tried every method known to man but nothing, must be losing my touch! Still,lovely to be out on such beautiful river.

Not a good day on the fishing, couldn't find a grayling anywhere on the top half of the beat. Undoubtedly employing the wrong tactics. A great day out on the river though.
Two OOSBT swiftly returned.

2 Trout