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Nymphs were the order of the day on this dull, dank windless beat. The Lugg was pushing through and was clear, albeit slate blue of colour. It was a hard slog today and the first fish was hooked at 14:45 hrs, not in a deep pool but at the tail end. Up until that point there wasn't anything that resembled a tug, let alone a take. Both fish were fingerlings and we were grateful for them on a day like today. Bring on spring.

2 Grayling

Struggled today to find the bigger fish, grayling came on the the feed for one hour at 12pm- 1pm and not a touch after. Largest 3: 14-15 inches the others between 6-12 inches, all taking shrimp patterns on the point. Nothing taking beadhead on dropper.

9 Grayling

River was in great condition not rising after yesterday's rainfall and gin clear. First time grayling fishing on this beat and enjoyed it very much. A lovely piece of water holding some decent fish. Fished two jig baetis nymphs with a 1.5mm tungsten on point size 18, and a 3mm tungsten size 16 on dropper. 3 grayling 6-8 inches, 5 grayling 8-12 inches, 3 grayling 12-16 inches and the other five all between 16-19 inches. Most taking size 16 on dropper.

15 Grayling

River was in good condition on the day we fished, and its was very good weather after a few very cold days that preceded it. We both used gold head nymph, but unfortunately caught no fish. No sign of fish on our day, we fished the length of the beat which had promising pools and channels. We stayed in an excellent air bnb in Leominster which was very close by.

Lot of water on the beat compared to my past visit. Fished the morning in the weir section but with no joy. Mid day moved up to a likelier series of bends and managed 6 grayling and 1 out of season brown trout. Largest of the grayling was pushing 2 lb. All fish were caught on ceramic nymphs and fished either czech or French. For a bit more regarding info with pics please see my blog at www.thetreetrout.co.uk

1 Trout, 6 Grayling

1 x grayling 6 inches. This turned out to be a miscalculation on my part. I booked the previous evening with the Eyton gauge showing 1ft 3ins, which I regard as about the upper limit for the Lugg. However, I didn't check again in the morning and when I arrived I found the river now up to 1ft 6 inches and strongly coloured - a sort of grey-brown instead of the usual grey-green and less than 6 inches visibility. I guess overnight rain in Radnorshire must have been to blame. Not a wash-off exactly and I tried some of the easier places for about 3 hours, but did no good except for one baby grayling. I gave it up at lunchtime. I am sure it will go back to fishing as well as usual once the colour clears up in a day or two.

1 Grayling

Perfect 3 hours fishing. The weather was mild (12 degrees!) and the river, unusually for this time of year, was at a perfect height. All the fish fell to very small nymphs fished low in the water. No sign of shoaling grayling; each fish was from a different swim, but my day was limited to 3 hours so I did not get time to explore all of the beat.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

This beat was fished by two members of the Grayling Society on this occasion.

1 Trout, 8 Grayling

Bright sunny day, frosty morning, 5 grayling up 6" taken on a holy grail, river was low slow and clear had a hatch between 2pm-3pm but rising in some very tricky spots, spooked a very large trout in shallow water. Plenty of dragonflys, wildlife about on this stretch; be back once we have had some rain

5 Grayling

river was in perfect condition + benefitting from the rain 36 hours before hand. although there were a few flies hatching all my fish were taken on bug imitations.

3 Trout, 14 Grayling