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Chose the wrong day....water the colour of milk chocolate and rising.....saw no fish nor could tempt them subsurface.
Drew a blank.

I did not manage to catch but had a lot of rises to dry fly. Either the fish were too quick or I had lost my touch today. Fished from about 14:30 to 17:30

As elsewhere, river very clear, slow and low enough to see the bottom in all but one of the pools. Nothing much moving either, found it hard going, landed 2 trout and one nice grayling at 12" on weighted pink shrimp. Still, I now know the contours of the pools for next year!!

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

At 9.00 the sun was just breaking through the dense mist on the tops of the hills where I live and the thermometer was showing a chilly 3 degrees.
Instinct said leave it an hour before making the 20min drive to the river but eagerness got the better of me.....mistake! It stayed misty and cold down in the valley until midday and by that time after standing in cold water casting to nothing for two hours I was freezing.....
Around 1pm the sun broke through and flies began to appear followed by sporadic but determined splashy rises. I was trying to target only grayling and the rising fish looked like trout so I fished subsurface until in frustration I decided to move to drys and took 2 trout on barbless Tupps, both around 12" Moving upstream and in a shallow pool came another similar size trout followed by rejection after rejection of the different dries I was trying. Swapped to a gold bead Copper John and came two nice grayling again around the 12" mark. Interesting was the total lack of action in the deep pools. Fished till 6pm.....Btw the banks are a jungle of Himalayan balsam ...make sure you find your way out before it gets dark!!!

3 Trout, 2 Grayling

I returned after a week to see if I could find grayling and the bigger fish that I know are in the river.
It was a day of short sporadic hatches and fish totally preoccupied with something other than what I was chucking at them.Both nymphs and drys were nudged or just plainly ignored....until around 1pm when I arrived at the same small and shallow pool where I caught both trout and a grayling the week before,here again feeding was in earnest and I caught a fish of each species, both really strong and fit and around 12"on a Greenwells 14.....struggled on until heavy rain but the big ones eluded me.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Work keeps me away from the water for most of the summer so it was good to be able begin my autumn/winter season. I fished from 10 - 4.
The water level was lower than any other visit I have made and the vegetation on the banks taller! In fact this was the first time I could safely fish the very last pool of the beat which is surprisingly deep. Despite favourable weather conditions I could count the amount of rises I saw on one hand despite a good deal of insect activity. Nothing much occurred until late morning when I found 3 trout and one very fit grayling , all around 10", from a pool that I have never caught anything in before!! All on a 16 Adams. Thanks again to all at WUF

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

3 hours on the Pontithel-Llynfi 3 grayling and a 1lb wbt,size 16 ptn. Spotted some large grayling in the first pool. Onto the Dulas middle beat for 2 hours 3 wbt in the fast runs again on small ptn. No rises throughout day.

4 Trout, 3 Grayling

Very low water, but nice fish. Caught grayling up to 12 inch in a fast run.

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

Only fished this beat for 2 hours. Very nice river, but a little more water would have been nice.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

River woefully low, the lowest I have ever seen it, pools which are usually waist deep are knee deep or less!!!
Anyway I saw plenty of trout and grayling, problem was they saw me first!!! lol
Did see a BIG trout (at least 2lb) but got nowhere near making a cast for him before he was off!

1 Trout, 1 Grayling