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5 Grayling

Fantastic day in great surrounding. Weather and water conditions were perfect. Plenty of fly life from mid morning onwards. bwo and various types of caddis with the large cinnamon sedge being the most prominent. 20+ grayling caught, but to be honest it could've been double this as I just stopped counting at 20. A good dozen of them on heavy nymphs and remainder on a reddish brown size 12 parachute. I believe I hooked either a very large trout or a small salmon at the tail of a deep pool. It was on for about 2/3 mind before it throw the hook. Tail looked too sharp for a trout, but I will never know. Great fun on a 3wt rod. Great day thank you.

1 Trout, 20 Grayling

Catch 10 graylings (or quite few more), and 4 BT... all taken with heavy nymphs. River was running quite fast, and clear in the morning. Water was coloured later in the afternoon, probably due to heavy showers. The day started extremely well, I caught a salmon of circa 8/9 pounds. It took me almost 1.30h, with my nymph rod truly under pressure, but in the end such beauty was landed. Fish had been carefully and safely released, after a well deserved recover of more than 15min. Great day!

1 Salmon, 4 Trout, 10 Grayling

3 trout, 8, 10 and huge 15 and a half inches. 9 grayling, 5 between 8 and 12 inches, 4 at 13-14 inches. Tough going today, the river was at .62 on the Cilmery gauge and pushing through strongly.
Plenty of rising fish but all the surface feeders were extremely selective and were constantly rejecting both size 16 and 18 dries of all sorts. All of the smaller fish took dry flies in the fast water at the very tails of the pools. The big trout and the bigger grayling took # 16 tungsten nymphs fished duo on the bottom.

3 Trout, 9 Grayling

One brown trout about a 1lb and a decent grayling about 1.5lb rest of the grayling 8 to 10 inches. Very good day most fish on dry fly, great day

1 Trout, 15 Grayling

Bright with long sunny spells light breeze, river falling and clearing quickly after being very mucky yesterday. 2 trout and 8 grayling on this beautiful beat that is full of features that constantly challenged my approach. First grayling on a tan klinkhammer then no joy at all on the dry fly. Switched to heavy bead head nymph running through deep channels but no takers. Worked the faster water with a team of gold head ptn's, some tugs but still no joy. Finally got it right with gold head ptn on point and partridge and brown spiders on droppers, game changer! All grayling took the spiders with the best about 12" . Trout took the ptn, the second one an healthy 14" one and a half pounder. Met the owners at the end of the day, very friendly couple and got talked into taking a fresh apple crumble home!

2 Trout, 8 Grayling

first time on this beat and enjoyed it . water lowish but ideal to suss out the river bed for the future. went in search of grayling and was not let down. ranging from 8-16 inches all bar three taking midge and olive emerger patterns on size 18 and 20 hook. the three others taking beads deep before they started rising. all trout between 8-12 inches. met the owner who was a very pleasant chap. also a few very small grayling but not added into the catch return.

3 Trout, 32 Grayling

Today proved what a great grayling river the Irfon is. Fish were rising all day and all 18 caught on a mixture of size 16 and 18 dry flies. The majority of the grayling between 8 and 10 inches with 1 at 15" and one at 14". Trout 10", but where are the rest of the Trout?

1 Trout, 17 Grayling

A sunny day on the Irfon but with a strong downstream wind. No rising fish despite multiple hatches, 4 trout between 8 and 12 inches ..2 to size 16 Tupps and 2 to gold bead hares ear . 6 grayling 2x 15"" the rest between 10 and 13", all taken from shallow water at the tail of the pools on size 16 barbless tungsten nymphs of various types.. lost another 4 due to fishing barbless.

4 Trout, 6 Grayling

A beautiful warm day with masses of fly life but virtually no rising fish. The Irfon is the lowest I've fished it and with very little flow it was hard going. I fished subsurface at all depths and took the first grayling in shallow water at the tail of Glaslyn pool, the fish had a severe slash to its flank which must have been fairly recent..around 15" to a tungsten bead hares ear size 16. Changing to dries the next was a smaller fish 12" to a size 16 para Adams followed by the 3 trout the biggest being 10", all on Adams patterns. With the water so low it was good to see what the river bed is actually like and the variety and depths of the gutters were noted for another occasion.

3 Trout, 2 Grayling