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3 Grayling

Can't quite believe the nice weather I'm getting this week, perfect conditions here ( 0.5 ddol gauge) one of my favourites beats but not the easiest to fish but at this level it's whole lot better. Only fished the bottom beat today but strangely the top and bottom pools didn't fish well at all? ( only 1 fish from each) all fish caught euro nymping and had grayling to 16" ( no tiny ones) and trout to 14" again all a good size.

6 Trout, 18 Grayling

Overcast, dry and calm day. Fished Weighted nymphs deep up the channels .
Nice day out as usual

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

11 Grayling

3 grayling, largest around 14 inches, all on klinkhammer (probably because my nymphing skills are poor). River at a good height after a few dry days. 0.578 at Ddol Farm. Fished the lower section only.
The broken gate has been reported to the landowner by the people who have the sawmill. The gate collapses when you untie the baler twine as the gate post at the hinge end is broken. Care needed. Do not climb!

3 Grayling

1 Trout

Beautiful sunny start to the day, 14C as we entered the water at 1130. River was clear and relatively low for autumn, water was 7C. Plenty of fly life about for late october with olives most obvious, we even saw a handful of rises to naturals in the morning.
We fished the deep channel from the start of the beat with heavy nymphs but no fish apparent so we switched to klinkhammers and elk hair caddis with nymphs under about 3ft of tippet once we got to the first set of riffles and some shallower water. A small shoal of grayling lurking at a seam 20m down gave good sport going for the dry and the nymph, plenty of pulls and splashes with three to the net up to about 7". A few meters down from the boulders themselves in knee-deep water a very fine 11" trout took a caddis nymph and a smaller grayling went for a CDC olive.
We skipped over the next stretch of smooth water as we didn't fancy switching back to walking heavy bugs through the channel and moved up to the next set of riffles. The sun moved behind clouds at this point and, as the weather cooled, so did the fish. We had a couple of pulls and one trout of 8" to a small hare's ear, again in knee deep water, but that was the end of it. By 1330 it felt like a different day. We moved up to the top half and prospected through the pocket water with no joy. Finished at 1600.

A lovely day on a lovely beat - the first hour really did feel like summer fishing and we were hugely annoyed that we weren't able to arrive earlier. The only problem was that it made it hard to switch our thinking to winter tactics and we kept on covering beautiful streamy water with dries!

2 Trout, 6 Grayling

lovely day on river, all to nymph

10 Grayling

Cold, a blustery wind kept fish down. Had to look for them. All caught on nymphs.
At 0.60m on the EA Ddol Farm gauge and 0.47m on the Elan, the river was high, but clean and fishable.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

3 Trout, 3 Grayling