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River clear / 1.75ft and falling / bright sun

First time on this beat and after walking down to the bottom limit I decided to focus my efforts on the lower pools at the top end where the depth, pace and bend in the river suited Czech nymphing. The fishing was slow, which I expected on a cold day but my efforts were rewarded with six fish, nothing bigger than 14" but all in good condition.The catching flies were a peeping caddis, copper bead head pink thorax GRHE and an orange thorax Czech caddis all in size 14 on jig hooks.

6 Grayling

Nothing caught, river coloured and high. Was there more for the practice than the catching.

1' 5" on the Llanstephan gauge, air temperature 8deg river nice and clear. Only had a couple of hours today so keep thing simple with a single pink headed tungsten nymph. All the grayling were about 10" and the trout not much bigger. It was noticeable that all takes were quite subtle so quite possibly I missed some others.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

A few hours to spare so was hoping for a few grayling but sadly trout were far more active the time I was there. Water moving well and clear but a little to turbulent and deep to get mid river where I feel they were holding in some lovely foam lanes. But still a nice afternoon out.

9 Trout, 1 Grayling

7 x grayling 11-15 inches, 9 x out of season trout 10-16 inches, trotting. A very grey, foggy day with drizzling showers off and on. Water at 1 ft 9 inches, falling slightly and rather coloured. A very slow start with out of season trout initially being much more interested than grayling. I went for a walk to the far end of the beat to warm up - the white egret is still around and becoming quite a familiar sight. Grayling finally woke up towards dark, just before I packed up.

7 Grayling

Beautiful but very cold morning on the LLangoed beat, the water was running gin clear and the Grayling took a bit of searching for but once found came consistently for a couple of hours. They mostly came to small hares ear and pheasant tail jigs fished on a french leader.

15 Grayling

Zero fish today, although we only fished for a few hours. Fly fishing for grayling.

5 x grayling 10-14 inches, 2 x chub in the 3-4 pounds range, 3 x out of season trout 9-13 inches, trotting. At 2ft 3 inches and still plenty of colour, the river was higher than I had hoped for and racing along when I arrived. Not much doing to begin with, but as the level dropped and the water cleared a few fish were picked up by searching the slacker areas. Which is exactly what the cormorants and goosanders were doing.

5 Grayling

Very low water, we only had 2 grayling between us, though having to return to london we only fished till midday.

2 Grayling