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Lovely day in mid-Wales on a lovely beat I have been wanting to fish for a couple of years. Surprisingly mild and fish were rising from 1pm to 2pm in the long bend pool. I throught they were trout when the classic red tag was ignored. The change to a Ducks dun was taken first cast by a grayling, which then put the pool down!

Between us we brought 7 grayling brought to hand. One of 6oz, 4 between 10oz and 1lb, with 2 around 1.5lb. One on dry, one on nymph and the rest of klink and dink. 6 OSS trout to around a pound as well. Hooked a mid teen salmon on a holo nymph, it was fun while it lasted. The barbless hook should fall out. A couple of other salmon showed in the beat which was good to see.

6 Trout, 7 Grayling

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

I had four grayling
Three grayling were hooked on the dropper
Later on I switched to the dry fly and a small Adams as there was a few fish rising and managed to catch another before I packed up

4 Grayling

Enjoyable day and pretty beat. We fished mainly dries having found one or two pools with rising fish. They were generally oncers and it was hard to find a fish that was really on the feed. Nothing bigger than a pound but lovely nonetheless. It is hard to find a clear and consistent path along the length of the beat so it does take quite a bit of effort to move very far upstream.

2 Trout, 8 Grayling

Lovely small brownies in perfect condition. Access to the top third of the beat is limited due to new fencing.

5 Trout

1 Trout

2 Trout

1 Trout, 4 Grayling

Nice day lovely beat. No fish ????

Hard work fishing from first to last light, on a wet, windy, grey, Mid-Walian day for a few bites.

River level at mid-range(?), falling (0.68-0.69m Cilmery gauge, but the drop during the day seemed more) and water nearly crystal-clear by dusk.

Five ladies, most over a pound, to 1:10 on maggot on our first visit to this river. A bit tougher than expected.

Covered nearly all of the stretch, but be aware that due to recent erosion you need to wade across and then back, to access the whole length. This was OK today but would not need much more water on to make it unviable. The new fence at the upstream end makes access very difficult to the upper quarter and we could not cover the last 200m to the sewage works. Likewise at the lower end, where we could not work out the access so waded (just) to the wrong bank to get a look.

Lovely scenery (mizzle allowing!). The few fish we did catch came from deeper slower pools and faster water.

We would have fished the gutters as advertised in the beat's description...but coming from a coarse-fishing background I have no idea what these are!

Landowner extremely helpful after a vehicle incident unrelated to the fishery.

4 Trout, 5 Grayling