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Fish were rising at the beginning of the day and taking very small insects mostly at the tails of the pools. Everything went quiet from midday until 2.00pm and then it was all go until 5.00pm. Ten days ago I was wondering where the trout were after only catching grayling on the Irfon but today was the opposite.

Trout were mostly small but plentiful. I lost more than I caught and the biggest at 12" came to a size 12 silver sedge the rest were caught on a selection of size 18 dries. The 9" grayling had a size 18 para Adams in fairly fast water. There were 5 goosanders on the water.

7 Trout, 1 Grayling

Nice looking river, slightly coloured. We caught 3 tiny trout 5 inch each. Still hoping for warmer weather and a good hatch...

3 Trout

Arrived to find the river very coloured with a strong and gusty wind. Fished duo with a variety of nymphs to no avail. 5pm arrived and I decided to call it a day but gave it another hour because I saw a rising fish below the bank, chucked a size 18 Greenwells at it ..rejected...chucked a size 18 para Adams ..rejected..then a Griffiths Gnat and a Iron Blue ,still no joy. Finally went to an 16 Adams and bingo! Proved to me that a rejection doesn't necessarily mean spooked fish. Another followed 10ft upstream. 2 Trout , 8 and 10 inches.

2 Trout

Method used was dryfly and Nymph.
River on the bones! Very very low.There were stretches where virtually the whole of the riverbed was dry. Never seen it like this before and I have fished this river since '72.

Fished from 11:30am to 4pm, warm light breeze and river very low indeed and clear. Fish easily spooked however fish rising in all of the deepest pools . Size 18 dry fly readily taken best grayling of 10". Best trout 8". More water urgently required.

2 Trout, 3 Grayling

The predicted rain didn't come so I had a pleasant day on the river, overcast warm with only a light wind. Access was very difficult. Through the gate you are faced with five foot high stinging nettles and shrub, I used my wading staff to hack a path to the river, only to find I was faced with a big drop onto soft mud and had to back track to find another entry point. Two flies lost in the first three casts wasn't a good start. I used dry flies throughout and managed to consistently get rises to them, but I think they were always very small and never managed to connect. Walked the entire beat, one dead sheep on the bank quite new. Exit at the top of the beat was tricky, walked back to my car along the road.

Fished from 11 30 am to 6 30pm. Overcast very windy dry and nymph both worked still not much water and clear. 14" oos grayling on dry very pleased. Biggest brown 8". Nice day.

6 Trout, 4 Grayling

Still very windy but the river was only slightly up and coloured after the recent rain. Too windy for the Tenkara rod today so first time out this season for rod and line. Upstream Nymphing with French leader produced 5 Trout best 12 inches and 2 small grayling. An early finish with a broken rod unfortunately after 1 too many wayward casts in the wind ended up in the undergrowth.

5 Trout, 2 Grayling

Booked this, a favoured beat, for an easier ride after the Clettwr yesterday. Arrived to find a thirsty stream, I would say you could have walked between the the banks in your slippers all the way to the "no fishing" section before changing into your Wellies ! One 10in wbt to a Griffiths gnat, now affectionately known between the shared rod as the "G Gnat" for its success on the streams.

1 Trout

I had a couple of spare hours this morning. In spite of the river being on it's bones and hardly any flow there were a few risers to be seen. Managed two trout, one of which was 10 inches. Both took a Kite's Imperial which is a reliable early season fly on this beat. The fish were taken in identical locations, just as the shallow run entered the neck of the pool.

2 Trout