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Dredful conditions.driving rain . Cold, rising river full of leaves etc. Really had to work for that one fish. Only fished for four hours.

1 Grayling

Lots of Salmon parr - hard to keep them off my fly...

2 Trout

We had fished Golden Grove on the Towy the previous night and blanked so needed some fish!

Its only when we got on to this beat we realised how low the river is – the grayling flats were no more than a foot deep and devoid of anything other than small grayling. Little insect life either so not easy. Only a couple of small trout to hand until fishing upstream we reached a favourite corner where a large oak tree overhangs the river and which was a banker spot for grayling …except the tree has fallen, luckily parallel to the river not across it. In so doing a new earth bank has been created across the uprooted root bole – 3 burrows in it, one of which judging by the mess and the racket from within every time they sensed movement is occupied by kingfishers….They have chosen a good location, the resulting changed water flow means that there is no longer the deep corner for the grayling but a fish rose in a midstream glide. After a few casts a fish took – but not the expected grayling, a 14” trout. And the fish rose again so a few more casts later another fish took – a beautiful 17” trout. And the fish rose again….so a few more casts later another fish took – a 10” trout. Suspect he was the one that had been rising all along as no more rises….
A tricky day then – finished with 7 trout.

7 Trout

Two anglers caught 19 fish between them on this very varied and interesting beat. One fish was a 14" Grayling to JE who caught all his fish on dry. JD caught 2 WBT and 2 Grayling high-sticking the pocket water and his balance on dry. Great day.

13 Trout, 6 Grayling

3 Trout, 4 Grayling

Killer weather ;-) low water, no breeze - easy access. Little or no hatch 10-1500 rose beautiful trout to Adams 14. And another nice (biggest) 12 ". Later took grayling to olive emerged 16 on shallow riffles near top of beat - tough going, but plenty to keep interest

2 Trout, 5 Grayling

We began fishing the beat at about 5 oclock and began by fishing the lower beat with euro nymph rigs with no success . Although there were lots of flies hatching there was nothing rising. We then moved up to the upper part of the beat and had succes fishing the faster pools. All fish were caught on size 16 copper headed hares ear nymphs.

3 Trout, 2 Grayling

No fish caught or seen. High water and windy Not a good day

the day was a wash off

Water low but slightly coloured

1 Trout, 1 Grayling