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This wasn't such a bright idea. Supposed to be a few hours trotting, but with the river was still very fast at 2 foot 4 inches on the gauge and still with a bit of colour. Found on arrival I had cleverly left my wading stick at home - a bit of equipment I rather needed today. So I tucked myself in under the bank and finally produced a 14 inch grayling which was a major drama to play up the current. This was the only success of the day. I then lost all the terminal tackle in a snag which rather discouraged me, so wandered along the bank to look at some salmon fishing and dream of the coming season.

1 Grayling

12 Trout, 10 Grayling

1 x grayling caught on pink tungsten head nymph.

1 Grayling

5 Trout, 12 Grayling

15 x grayling 10-16 inches, trotting and a few on Tenkara. Cloudy, warm and virtually no wind. 18 inches on the Llanstephan gauge and fairly clear. Steady rather than frantic sport, but a nice average size of grayling. Once again, I was surrounded by hovering large dark olives this afternoon.

15 Grayling

1 Grayling

No fish caught, fishing abandoned after 2 hours far too many canoes at least 3 large groups covering most of beat.

My first visit to this beat. Looking upstream from Lower Llanstephan when fishing there last week it looked very inviting with lots of likely looking water. One the day of my visit the gauge showed 1'9" and the air temperature was an unseasonal 14deg. Everything seemed set for a productive day but alas, no fish to speak of; one small grayling and one oos trout. The almost total absence of taps from fish told me it was just one of those days when the fish were not in the mood. Still, a nice beat and I will try it again soon.
Incidentally I found the fishing hut unlocked with the padlock seemingly unoperative.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

grayling 8-14 inches and 3 small trout. size 10 grey duster parachute and 14 Waterhen Bloa, cast to rising fish. Great few hours.

3 Trout, 15 Grayling

River a little low but in great condition, fish rising early on, fantastic stretch of river. Kayaks from Surrey University were asked to to leave the river as they had not checked river levels that were way to low. 2 Grayling and 8 OWBT
(WUF Note: the Kayaks did actually leave the river)

8 Trout, 2 Grayling