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Had a good day in beautiful surroundings. IM one trout around 2 lbs, TH four trout between 1 and 2 lbs. One area of concern was the presence of three other rods, all spinning.

Even though it was very windy, it was clear and sometimes cloudy. It was in a sense an ideal fishing day.
I caught 3 wild brown trouts (around 7") with Elk Hare Caddis, Adams and Klinkhammer and they all were safely returned. Each of my friends caught a few brown trouts, too.
It was a fantastic day for all of us. We booked 4 rods (maximum 4 rods) on the day, but there was a guy who was fishing at our beat. We told him that he was not allowed to fish without booking and he just went away without saying anything. We were very disappointed to know that there was such a guy.

**WUF note** We are making enquiries into the extra angler.

First time on Gromain. Wading "challenging". Nil fish seen nil caught.

Ian Boney met us at 6am as planned and he was very helpful and showed us to Beat 3, which was our beat for the day. We could only fish the other beats if no Game fisherman arrived, which was a little suprising as the passport doesn't make that clear. We had a very enjoyable day even though the Barbel didn't put in an appearance. It's a lovely stretch of the river and 5 Chub were caught on pellet/boilies. The sevice from the foundation was first class, we will be back for the Barbel!

11 Browns, 1 of 13", 2-10", 1- 9" and the rest between 6"-7"
All returned

Thought this was the day to break my Usk Salmon duck but alas ... conditions pretty good as well but no luck just a couple of trout.

The Irfon is the place to go when the rest of the system is in flood. (It would be great to have a web-cam on it, though, to stop us phoning the unfortunate hotelier every hour or so to go down to the bridge and look at the river!) A lot of cold water was coming down on what really felt more like an autumn day, so I fished accordingly with spiders in the morning and a dry Grayling Steel Blue size 16 when a few began to rise after lunch. 9 x trout 8 - 12 inches, 7 x grayling. All the grayling were nice ones, the smallest being 14 inches and the best pair at 18 inches each. Great fun as usual in a most beautiful location and even the sun appeared by about 5 o'clock.

13 brown trout on a dry fly/bugs.

Unfortunately no fish caught despite the river looking very good with extra water and very coloured. Having fished here before we tried all the usual swims but the constant rubbish coming down the river at all levels made fishing very difficult even with heavy leads. We finished up fishing tight in to near bank until dusk with no success. All the usual baits were tried,just one of those days really.The previous day by all accounts the river fished brilliantly. Typical!

One barbel about 8lb and 2 Chub between two of us.