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The river was coloured with recent rain. A few hours fishing no fish caught on this occasion.

Low water and water tinged cold afternoon with a downstream breeze. Few rises seen. Fished both dry and nymph to no avail.

One 8in brown off the top.
The river bed is pretty well covered in green blanket weed which makes fishing unpleasant. Hopefully this will disappear. in the winter. River seemed pretty lifeless with only one or two rising fish, again I hope this is due to the low flow and the grayling have moved down into the main river system.

1 Trout

A different day today when I set off from the outskirts of Leominster , overcast , blustery and reading sixteen in my truck …. Wasn’t sure where I was heading , but had seen Edw and Llanddewi were free , kind of followed my nose , and ended up at the Road side pull in at Llanddewi at ten bells …..

Nice bimble down to the start of the beat …. Eeeeeekkkkkkkkkkkk she was low ,I did thermometer dip test , reading 15 degrees , so all ok , …… no real trouty water till I came more or less opposite to where I’d parked the truck on the pull in , then some sport was had , at the heads of the trouty pools …. Real hard work with that bright green filamentous algae that sticks to line , dry flies , everything !!!!!

Still , that aside , sport was not toooooooo bad to be honest , fished an eighteen Para iron blue and an F fly , both with success , prospected most of the rises , but cast to two , and had the both , so that was nice . Five lovely Ithon brownies to the net , three of them nice chunky ten inch fish , also an eight inch grayling on the dry , very satisfying take too !!!!

Some serious changes to the river shape , and from what I remember a lot of pools gone , new ones there , and masses of piled up gravels , a good winter Will settled this old girl down , she looks in a bit of a state to be fair . More gravel than water ….. sad to see ….

Anyway , must have been a while since I’ve fished the Ithon , was nice , good flush out needed , lovely and open , and always fun here , steady wading too , nothings an effort here , just bear in mind it’s a long beat , I chose the field walk back as opposed to that mad fast road , there’s only sheep in there at the moment , so all good ….. a pleasant three hours , and some good sport …. Sorted !!!!!!!

5 Trout, 1 Grayling

32c on Friday which slumped to 13c on Saturday when fishing this beat. What's going on? Cold, wet day. River on its bones. Managed 3 wbt around 6" and lost a sizeable grayling after a frenetic tussle in shallow water. All caught on an F-fly. Lack of water made for really difficult fishing, Huge beat, easy wading, lots of variety. Will re-visit in better conditions.

3 Trout

River low, temperature lower than would be expected for mid June, and a cool breeze. Fished the upper part of the beat and brought a couple of small brownies to hand, both on small dries. Also rose a few others including one hooked but "distance released". Was nice to see a kingfisher that flew just past me

2 Trout

Our first return trip to the Ithon for more than 20 years, and we weren't disappointed. The river was quite low but we caught throughout the day on a variety of dry flies. The majority of our catch of WBT and salmon parr were between 6 to 8 inches, although we did hook 4 much larger fish which slipped the hooks. It was great to be back on the Ithon, and we will definitely be returning again soon.

12 Trout, 8 Other

Started at the bridge 6 30 am, cold north wind blowing down stream, started with a dry greenwells size 18,landed 7 wbt 7= 12 ins, and 9 parr , no grayling today, good sport on my local water, river very low and clear.

7 Trout, 9 Other

River very low today, some parts were virtually static.

The floods earlier in the year have definitely changed this beat, with lots of trees blocking previously good spots. There are also huge banks of stones where there were runs. Having said all this there are new spots to to try and the fishing doesn't seem to have suffered.

I fished dry all day, starting on a size 16 orange clinkhammer, taking the single grayling and five small brownies in the first 100 yards of the beat.

I then upped the size of my fly to a size 14, and then had my first decent fish of the day.

In the end I had six size sizable fish in the 10-12 inch range and on 14 inch beauty that was close to 2lb, the rest of the fish were in the 4-6 inch range.

Fantastic day out, and can't wait for when there's a bit more water as all of those stones have made some lovely runs.

16 Trout, 1 Grayling

Fished the evening, caught three small fish and missed a few more

3 Trout