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Great day. Weather perfect, wandered down to church, trotting today, 12 grayling and one old lady estimated around 2lb, very good condition.

12 Grayling

23 x grayling 9-17 inches, 10 x out of season trout 6-10 inches, trotting. A quiet day except for interfering trout, but as the levels dropped off the grayling suddenly came on in the hour before dark. Several nice ones and a lot of good 14-15 inch fish. I carried on until I could no longer see the float.

23 Grayling, 10 Trout

Trotting with red maggots. Cloudy with occasional sunny spells, light wind, mild @15C. River in good shape and not too much colour. Fished from top of the beat down about 3/4 of the beat, a long stroll back to the car at the end of the day. Not much happening despite best efforts. Did get 3 grayling all 10 -12", each in different spots. Went very quiet after 2pm. There is a very well defined riverside path that has had an enormous amount of work done on it which has vastly improved access, which is greatly appreciated.

3 Grayling

This was a bad miscalculation on my part, probably due to becoming desperate for a bit of river fishing. Given a river level of 0.90 at Cilmery and falling slowly, plus a Metcheck forecast of not too much in the way of showers, I booked on at Cefnllysgwynne in the hope that it might be down to 0.80 or 0.75 by this morning, just about viable for trotting from the bank. Wrong on all counts! Metcheck was wrong about the showers (BBC had it right), it rained heavily, the river rose rather than fell and coloured up with plenty of debris - gauge at 1.67 metres by this afternoon.

River very full. Wading not possible

Washed off

What a beat! I started at the top and worked my way down. I was on the move for most of the day trying to explore as much of this stretch as I could. I only managed to get just over half way before having to turn back up to fish my favourite swim before the light was lost.
As an SSI area this is a challenging/adventurous beat and I really enjoyed the terrain It makes it so much more enjoyable (in my opinion) when you have to work to where you want to fish.
I long trotted all day with reg maggots using an ultralight 13ft rod and a pin loaded with 5lb line. Many of the runs held fish, but I found after 2/3 fish the bites dried up, so I moved on, but when you have this much water to go at its not an issue. I was trying to find a bigger shoal, which I found at last knockings, and had to give in after 5 Grayling and an OOS brownie.
I will be back before I get to old to tackle this stretch again!

1 Trout, 15 Grayling

2 anglers trotting, river in great condition, clear but decent flow. Found fish in the pools but seemingly absent from the runs. My that's a long beat, covered only half of it.

3 Trout, 14 Grayling

Heavy rain pretty much all morning, brightened up with the odd shower in the afternoon. Grayling were hard to find, managed to pick a couple around 4 30 pm. All in all an enjoyable day .

4 Grayling, 1 Other