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Wow what a superb morning....A real wild streams morning too!! Fished the upper section of this beat , tackling up at ten....lovely to be fishing the little mega light, six foot, one weight, after four cracking days fishing my local big wild reservoirs of the Elan Valley !!! Great early season sport too, with some belting fish to my net ...
Anyway, Large Darks on the go as soon as I entered the river ...ohhhhhhhhhhhhh she is low, a good six or eight hours of the wet stuff needed....Fifteen degrees today..Felt almost summer like too ...Plenty of insect life too ...A few March Brown's by half twelve .
First fish absolutely nailed my dry .....in the rifgley stuff where the olives were dancing !!! Only eight inches but hugely welcome .... Having had a few good fish on streamers in the Elenydd early season, was sooooo nice to catch them on the refined method ....my favourite too !!!! Second fish aas a belter, tight in thr marginal undercut bank, came out with a confident splash ...lovely fish ...my last two were in deep pool heads in the long Riffley stuff, again only wee fish, but a superb three hours sport on one of my favourites ...Back on thr lovely Edw and Arrow soon .... They take their time cause of the river location and they stay pretty cold till we get plenty of the warm bright ball in the sky ...Then the Arrow, Edw and Lugg will kick into gear ....About two of three weeks i reckon if the weather behaves . On another wild stream beat in a couple of days ....Nantymoch Reservoir with a buddy from Rhayader tommorrow ...A fab session, dippers seen , bumblebees busy on the banks, bullheads under stones, olives dancing over the fast water, ohhhh and a thick bit of fondant on the cake, four cracking Ithon fish on the dries ....Happy days !!!!

4 Trout

River was quiet low and very clear (Tap water) managed 2 small trout from the deeper holes with a weighted nymph bright orange and green size 18

Very hard going

2 Trout

Just about fishable following last weekends rain topped up again early week! x1 grayling on a shrimp pattern (middle in pic). Tried several shrimp patterns alongside nymphs but no other fish or takes. 0730-1400.

Would suggest that mid-high 30s is about the max height on the Llanddewi gauge via River App that would be fishable on this section. Looks like it will be good conditions into this weekend and early next week. Great to see Spring coming on and not long to go until the trout season begins.

1 Grayling

Very quiet day missed 2 presumed grayling on pink lure

Good last day on a river for 2024. Netted x6 grayling (+ 1 osBT). Hooked another x4 grayling that came off plus x2 large osBT. x2 netted grayling good size with x4 being standards. 1 as pictured with very distinctive scar on left flank and maybe identified if caught again.

Shrimp patterns worked the best.

Water very clear and has been steadily dropping over the past 5 days. Most grayling seemed to be in deeper sections of runs not pools or riffles.

0830-1530 session with a break for lunch at 1300. x4 grayling AM with x2 PM. All fish from below “no fishing section”. Lot of otter prints visible in lower section and a few dippers seen.

Super day via Fishing Passport.

6 Grayling

First visit since the recent storm and flood. Phew what damage !! Running with pace and 0.134M on the gauge. No grayling unfortunately, however, 3 OOS trout that hadn't read the script. Pleasant couple of hours trotting with the only signs coming from the deeper runs.

3 Trout

Water fairly low & clear after recent dry spell. A quiet & rather grey afternoon on bottom half of beat prospecting for grayling with nymphs & spiders without much success, other than a couple of out of season trout & missed takes. Good to get out on the river nonetheless.

2 Trout

River appeared to have a lot of suspended particles of soil/silt although wasn't running that high. also a lot of white foam (not sure if this is natural?)
Had a couple of grayling on black/purple nympth plus OSBT

2 Grayling

6 Trout 1 Grayling to 12" all returned,caught on Euro Nymphing method

6 Trout, 1 Grayling

The river was completely different than downstream at Severn Arms. The water was very low and clear. Only 4 trout caught on euronymphing, no grayling seen today, I am surprised. Anyway, good nature, it's definitely worth visiting this stretch.

4 Trout