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2 x Chub (both around 1.5 lb) on luncheon meat. Thanks

1 rod caught 1 brown trout 12" on goldhead GRHE. 2nd rod caught 3 grayling 10'', 12" and 14" on pink shrimp or orange tagged goldhead GRHE

A most enjoyable day - the sun even showed its head in late pm! Season's Greetings to all at WUF office!

Freezing cold day with snow on the bank. River low & clear and didn't fancy my chances. Had a nice pike of 23-12 at 10.00am on whole herring which turned out to be the same fish I had 200yds upstream a fortnight ago. This one must be on WUF'S payroll. Pulled out of another at midday and that was it for the day.

10 x grayling to 16.5 inches with the trotting rod. While the snow fell on Eastern England, we just had a desperately cold day in central Wales, mainly due to the biting easterly wind - I can't remember feeling so cold, particularly the hand trying to control the reel. Rod rings icing up all day, except for an hour between 2 and 3 in the afternoon, so difficult to trot. Also a new experience - meshes of net freezing to back of wading jacket. However, some grayling were still ready to play, plus there was a white knuckle half hour in the morning after a large cock salmon, very dark and diseased by now, picked up the single maggot. After I failed to tail him he eventually got below me into Stone Catch where I couldn't follow and the tiny hook straightened.

Sadly no fish caught but superb beat. A very enjoyable blank. The river was high and coloured. I fully intend to try again.

Blank, except for a 4 inch grayling parr.

Not such a good idea this, as a lot of coloured water still rushing down - wherever the fish were lying, I couldn't get a nymph down to them. Nice place to be though, on a lovely sunny morning. This beat could use a trim next year as it's getting quite overgrown.

There's been a bit of a hiatus with an enforced 6 weeks absence from fishing moving water. Very frustrating it was. Anyway here's a result:

16th December, Irfon at Cefnllysgynne: a day with the trotting rod, water high but clear and not too cold. 29 x grayling to 18 inches. The grayling were hard on the bottom nearly all the time although there was a brief hatch of large dark olives mid-afternoon. The best grayling was the last fish of the day, at dusk, and took right under the rod top. Also 2 x out of season trout: the larger of these, a hen fish in very good condition for the time of year, was also 18 inches. It's worth noting the number of large trout the Irfon is throwing up these days, quite apart from the grayling it has a reputation for. Most rivers produce the occasional good one, but the Irfon seems to be doing it regularly for the last few seasons.

We had planned to fish the top end of the beat,but on arriving another angler already on the water so we made our way downriver to the start of the beat.Weather and water conditions good,fished from 10am to 3pm for a total of 8 grayling all approx 10",fish taken from the deeper pools tight on the bottom with czech nymphs.Well done to O.B from Gloucestershire who had the type of day we were hoping for at the top end of the beat.Merry Xmas to the the all the staff at the W.U.F.

2 rods: Plenty of grayling to 2lbs (not sure how many exactly but dozens) plus a couple of 4lb chub trotting maggot with avons and centrepin. Lovely day's fishing after so much rain over the last month.

Booked Saturday using online system for the first time, found it straightforward and effective.

Nice pike of 19lb 3oz at first light on large whole herring. Then a 14 and 2 jacks on sardine. No more runs after 8am.