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Starting with some rain in the morning, fising nymphs in the lower half of the beat without luck all morning and early afternoon. Finaly hooked 2 beautiful grayling over a pound about 5pm on a olive klinkhammer. Great days fishing.

2 Grayling

This was my first time winter grayling fishing on first time on this stretch. On arriving at the upstream beat I couldn't believe how stunning the place was, I was lucky enough to have arrived on a cold, slightly misty but sunny autumn morning which helped but the river looked spectacular.
I started fishing near the footbridge and was soon into a grayling on a goldhead but it slipped the hook soon after. I much prefer to fish with dries and as the map showed foot access all the way back to Newbridge I figured I had a lot of water to cover so set off along the path, unfortunately the path is at the top of a steep wooded slope and access to the river very limited and precarious, the path then seems to come to an end at a house in the woods. I did eventually manage to get back into the river and thought I'd make my way along in the river instead but this was slow going due to large slippery rocks amongst the stone and gravel river bed. I did find some fish topping and after quite a bit of manoeuvring I got into position, by now flies were hatching and fish were taking all around me! After changing flies a number of times I hit on something the fish would take and had 4 lovely grayling to about 1lb in quick succession which made all the effort worth while. I then moved on and found another fish taking flies off the top and presented a fly which it took first time, this turned out to be a beautiful out of season brown trout of around 2lb.
This really is a stunning location, I did get a little frustrated I couldn't get further downstream, I found the fishing difficult but very rewarding, I thoroughly enjoyed my day here.
On returning to my car I met another angler who'd fished the stretch for 30+ years who told me I should have crossed the foot bridge and tackled the river from the other side. He also told of 2 and 3lb grayling, I shall definately be back but next time I'll be crossing the bridge to see if it makes accessing the river easier.

1 Trout, 4 Grayling

Beautiful waters in perfect conditions. I could only fish from 10am to 1pm in a very clear but very cold morning (3º when arrived there). No activity on the surface (still too early) but lots of fly life during last hour. Extremely nice beat.

3 Grayling

Best grayling was the first at about 12" and never managed to get into a shoal but an enjoyable day nevertheless.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

Misty start, by 11am it lifted: rest of the day was sunny plenty of fly life blue duns mainly, grayling taking at all depths. 15 grayling landed and released 6 missed, Griffiths gnat, quill nymphs and spider patterns.

15 Grayling

15 grayling, all but one 12-16". 10 on dries grey duster size 16, others on nymph with a bit of red in in it. Lot of fish in the head of the runs. Be careful of those boulders they are slippy. Great day.

15 Grayling

Rain interrupted fishing!

Grayling to 16in trout to 12in. Fish caught early on at bottom of beat and then heavy rain killed sport for rest of the day.

4 Trout, 4 Grayling

24 x grayling 12-18 inches, five on nymphs and the rest on dry Grayling Steel Blue. A cold and foggy start so we lingered over Olympic Breakfasts in the Builth Wells Little Chef (in the grayling anglers' tradition) before making our way to the river. Some time was spent nymphing, but it was really a dry fly day, warm and still, lots of leaves on the surface, and pale wateries hatching regularly. Very nice dry fly fishing, the kind of autumn day we hope for, with a very good average size of grayling - no shotts taken at all. A heavy cock grayling measured at 18 inches was the last fish of the day as dusk came on.

24 Grayling

Cold start to the day ment I used heavy nymphs for the first couple of hrs that produced about six grayling. As the day warmed up the fish got a bit more active towards a continual hatch of pale watery's, bwo's and the occasional caddis so dry fly was used for the rest of day. All fish between 8" and 14" great sport.

1 Trout, 20 Grayling