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3 Grayling

River relatively low and the odd rise here and there. 2 trout and 2 nice size grayling all on a dry fly. Thoroughly enjoyable day

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

Excellent day, nice and bright but did not stop the fish from obliging. Best trout 14 inches

6 Trout, 4 Grayling

So plenty of rain the day before had freshened up the river and the runs I had fished two days earlier were moving faster. Fished entirely the wrong part of the day - mid morning until 4pm as I was tired in the morning after fishing Doldowlod the day before and had to travel home. The grayling were on the euro set up and lost 3 more but the amount of interest was low compared to two days earlier. Didn’t really fancy the tricky wading of the run at the top of the beat so had a go at prospecting with a sculpin pattern on the remainder of the deeper sections lower down. Pretty sure I had a couple of plucks but no hook ups. Fish were rising throughout the day and several decent sized trout cleared the water leaping, all of course in the most ridiculously inaccessible areas

3 Grayling

Wow the water level is low. So I wasn’t really counting how many I actually caught but I lost more grayling than I got to the net, and I caught quite a lot. I caught one really good one and lost 4 better ones, the best probably after 3 or 4 minutes of playing it and I never even saw it!
I euro nymphed in the morning and clink and dinked from 4 till just before dark. Only one fish rose to the dry.
There were significantly more single fish rising early morning than evening. I didn’t catch a trout all day. Plenty of salmon par, again I lost count of how many.
Tried a bit of indicator fishing in the top section and will give it a proper go in a couple of days time when I do it all again. This is the first place I really fished in wales and I feel quite sentimental when I come back. Where have the trout gone though?

15 Grayling, 5 Other

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

3 Trout

Great places.

1 Trout, 7 Grayling

Mainly sunny and generally calm with an intermittent upstream breeze. Little fly life today with just a few PWs in the morning and some Yellow Mays (which may have accounted for the odd slashing rise as fish hit rising emergers?). Unlike Abernant earlier in the week, little sign of midge or sedges and also few rising fish. I've never fished Ty Newydd when it is quite so low, so had the opportunity to spend more time in a few, normally rather less accessible spots. At this time of year, when grayling in particular are looking up and about, they will often take small emergers, as was the case today when most fish taken were non-risers. Most fish caught, rose to a size 18 / 16 pale HE Duck's Dun with fewer on a small HE emerger, and one on a HE spider - intended to spend more time fishing spiders but just didn't get around to it! Apart from a number of 12-13" ladies, most grayling were from this year's abundant 9-10" year class, with others jagged or long-distance released. Trout from 8-16" and three salmon parr. An interesting day's fishing.

5 Trout, 22 Grayling, 3 Other