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A foot of water showing on the Llanstephan gauge, quite warm with an upstream wind at times. Very little surface activity. Almost all fish came from the Abernant pool, mostly grayling with a best of about 14". Olive spiders and beadhead nymph accounting for most. The 10 'other' were salmon parr jumping on the beadhead at the end of the drift.

2 Trout, 12 Grayling, 10 Other

Weather wet and very windy so I didn't fish.

Low water - 10" on the gauge at Llanstephan. I fished Lady Alexander's Catch with a silver stoat's tail on a floating line and hooked a decent trout on my second cast (1lb, returned).
A salmon was splashing further up Edw pool but not within the beat. A grilse ran up the stream below Edw pool, jumping once as I was changing my fly. I fished Lady Alex's again with a cascade, catching more trout, which were returned. I stripped a sunray shadow across the middle and tail of the pool, trout slapped at it, but there was no interest from any salmon.
A kingfisher fished below me. A great sight. I then turned to the dry fly and fished the tail of the pool with a grey sedge for trout that were very active, sipping wantonly. Great sport. More trout caught and returned.
At twilight, I fished the head of the pool again, hooking a hard fighting trout of 1.5lb in the fast water.
Then I heard a big tantalising splash as a salmon hit the water just at the edge of the current below a rock. It may have been a running fish: I covered the area again and again, with no response. I was fishing in almost total darkness and my wading and fishing options were accordingly limited. Perhaps a slow sinking line in the belly of the pool might have yielded a take. Another time...

6 Trout

Today no fish! I lost one and had a few very little attacks on the spiders but there was nothing rising.

1 Trout

1 Trout

River still up running fast. Bright sunshine. 7 BT to 10", 11 Grayling to 12". All cuaght on size 16 Dry CDC Quill

7 Trout, 11 Grayling

4 grayling around 30 centimetre, 1 trout of that length and 1 smaller trout. I was on a beautiful guided day with Oliver Burch and used the wet fly and the spider method.

2 Trout, 4 Grayling

Beautiful day, river very low. 2 small trout caught and released.

2 Trout

Nil return.