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A great day, fine sunny day..lots of 10 to 12 inch ladies..2 biguns. Salmon louping in their tartan breeks as they back home. Ok

15 Grayling

River running clear for most of the day. All grayling caught fishing nymphs! czech nymphs style and on a french leader! also had a suprise salmon about 11lb on a size 16 pheasant tail nymph! river started to colour and rise around 3oclock along with a lot of leaves so called it a day!

1 Salmon, 3 Trout, 11 Grayling

Hectic sport up until 2pm when the river came up a foot and killed things off. Had 18 Grayling of all sizes up to 16 inches on trotted maggot. Found dead salmon estimated at 15 pound plus with a chunk out of it...picture attached.

1 Trout, 18 Grayling

15 x grayling 10-18 inches, 5 x out of season trout 8-14 inches, long trotting. An afternoon season until dusk. Mostly 10-11 inch grayling but several 15 and 16 inch fish and a specimen of 18 inches just before dark. The river was rising slightly at the end, presumably caused by light rain earlier.

15 Grayling

River dropping after heavy weekend rain. Still a bit higher than we would have liked, but fishable. Some really nice looking water oddly didn't produce, but myself and TH did manage to catch a good number of grayling on variety of nymphing methods, including czech, french leader and indicator. Good range of year class from small shots to nice 16 inch fish. Plenty of pound sized grayling about. Look out for a magazine feature in Total Fly Fisher in a few months time. Great beat!

23 Grayling

Washed - off for a second time... are we destined never to fish this river!!??

12 x grayling 10-17 inches, 5 x out of season trout 6-15 inches, trotting. This was an odd one. The first hour went well enough with half a dozen nice grayling spread over the pool. Then I became aware that the river, already on the high side, was now rising. Plenty of clouds overhead, but no rain here, so I figured it must be raining further up in the hills. Grayling promptly switched off, as they usually do in these circumstances, and all bites ceased. Salmon, however, were showing regularly as they got more excited. I pushed a marker into the margin and watched the situation. After a rising a few inches, the level stabilised and then began to fall again (confirmed afterwards by a little hump in NRW gauge graph). The grayling began to take again and I caught a few more before leaving. Nice average size of fish, including several at 15 and 16 inches).

12 Grayling

River lovely and clear but hardly a fis rising despite some good hatches. Small fish down by the church and a few up by the fallen oak . Met a fellow angler who was trotting maggots for the first time having some fun with larger fish.
Having taken his advise I fished a heavy tungsten nymph through a swim he has caught a 2 lb fish in and having thought i had hooked the bottom ( it moved) managed to land my own 2lb grayling . The rod was a 10 ft 2 wt so some fun was had
A lovely autumn day .

12 Grayling

Great day long trotting. River had come down nicely after Tuesday's rain and was running pretty clear. Very light wind meant very few leaves in the water which can be an issue at this time of year. Best grayling nearly 2lbs, several 1 to 1.5lbs all in good condition and pretty lively. Got broken by a really hefty fish after it went mid stream and performed all sorts of stunts, unfortunately left the hook ( I assume ) in its mouth. Meeting the other angler on the beat, Bill, later in the day he caught a cracking 2lb fish in the same location that I had been broken, with a hook complete with fresh red maggot lodged in upper lip! Fish returned safely, if not quite tired after its exertions. Salmon showing themselves several times during the day. Lovely beat

1 Trout, 11 Grayling

6 x grayling 10-12 inches, 1 x out of season trout 10 inches, trotting. A few hours on a bright and frosty morning before going on to Swansea. The river at a good height and clarity, having been high yesterday, but fishing a little slow.

6 Grayling