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Lots of hungry fish as the river dropped back to a good height but still carrying a touch of colour. Most fish caught on nymphs but with more taking an Elk hair Caddis than yesterday. Smaller average size with the largest at 16”. Not too sure of numbers as I loose count after ten.

10 Trout, 10 Grayling

Good to get out, first trip of new season for me. Bright and sunny, bitterly cold wind though, somehow managed to pickup 2 small trout 6>8inches and one nice size grayling around 15 inches, that was it struggled for the best part without another touch. All returned safely.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

If it wasn't for our accommodation being booked well in advanced I'm sure we'd of stayed warm and dry at home and not set out at 4am to fish during Storm Dennis! Nevertheless, we arrived at the river at around 7:30 and we were greeted by a rising river with decent clarity. We knew we only had a couple of hours so headed for a "banker" swim which never fails to produce a fish or two for us. Far from ideal conditions for trotting we managed to get amongst a few fish however with the best being a lovely Grayling of just under 2lb. We returned to the cars around lunch time cold, drenched and wind burnt but happy to get albeit it a small but necessary Grayling fix!

3 Trout, 4 Grayling

River looking nice but freezing fog persisted all day. Tough to locate fish but a few decent grayling caught trotting with maggots. One grayling just over 2lb and a huge OOS Brownie at around 5lb.

2 Trout, 4 Grayling

Didn’t see any fish. The water was Gin clear, and about .55 on the gauge. Fished all the deeper water from the Church up to the Grandstand (very difficult to access, some dead trees need removing). Temperature was 1 degree all day as the fog didn’t clear. Fly fished with a team of 3 Grayling flies. Would be interested to hear from OB of Gloucestershire where he located the shoal?

4 Trout, 2 Grayling

15 x grayling 6 -17.5 inches mainly trotting, but also Tenkara and bugging. A foggy if warmish day in which we never saw the sun in this valley. The water was very clear and at about .59 on the Cilmery gauge. However, it was well into the afternoon before we located a decent shoal which included some very handsome large grayling. This was all very satisfying as darkness fell but there followed a somewhat tragic end to the day as the Landrover suffered an apparently catastrophic transmission failure. Arrived home by RAC relay to find a jury service summons on the door mat. What else can I expect to happen?

15 Grayling

River nice and clear - trotted all day - didn't touch a fish

Left South Wales in a sunny 8 degrees C and arrived at the beat in thick freezing fog at minus 5. Couldn't see the river outline from the parking spot due to the fog at the Church end so wasn't too hopeful. Tackled up more in desperation than hope but was pleased that I found the river! After an hour or so when some small Ladies had given themselves up to me, I got out of the river to untangle my line. I then realised how cold the air temperature actually was as I could see ice crystals forming on my waders. Despite greasing my rod eyes they too were frozen. Apparently I have 8 fingers and 2 thumbs but I couldn't feel any of them so with thickening fog and dropping temperatures I decided to head back to the car and called it a day.
Flies that worked were UV flash caddis.

4 Grayling

Was it the gale, the rising waters, or my ineptitude? I guess I'll never know.