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Beautiful sunny start to the day, 14C as we entered the water at 1130. River was clear and relatively low for autumn, water was 7C. Plenty of fly life about for late october with olives most obvious, we even saw a handful of rises to naturals in the morning.
We fished the deep channel from the start of the beat with heavy nymphs but no fish apparent so we switched to klinkhammers and elk hair caddis with nymphs under about 3ft of tippet once we got to the first set of riffles and some shallower water. A small shoal of grayling lurking at a seam 20m down gave good sport going for the dry and the nymph, plenty of pulls and splashes with three to the net up to about 7". A few meters down from the boulders themselves in knee-deep water a very fine 11" trout took a caddis nymph and a smaller grayling went for a CDC olive.
We skipped over the next stretch of smooth water as we didn't fancy switching back to walking heavy bugs through the channel and moved up to the next set of riffles. The sun moved behind clouds at this point and, as the weather cooled, so did the fish. We had a couple of pulls and one trout of 8" to a small hare's ear, again in knee deep water, but that was the end of it. By 1330 it felt like a different day. We moved up to the top half and prospected through the pocket water with no joy. Finished at 1600.

A lovely day on a lovely beat - the first hour really did feel like summer fishing and we were hugely annoyed that we weren't able to arrive earlier. The only problem was that it made it hard to switch our thinking to winter tactics and we kept on covering beautiful streamy water with dries!

2 Trout, 6 Grayling

Fished top section, very tricky wading, but managed to find a few fish, all on euro nymph rig.

2 Trout, 3 Grayling

lovely day on river, all to nymph

10 Grayling

Cold, a blustery wind kept fish down. Had to look for them. All caught on nymphs.
At 0.60m on the EA Ddol Farm gauge and 0.47m on the Elan, the river was high, but clean and fishable.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

3 Trout, 3 Grayling

Few PB on both grayling and briwn

8 Trout, 4 Grayling

Lovely beat enjoyed every minute fish again

2 Trout, 6 Grayling

Fished the top half of beat. Fish caught on spiders

7 Trout, 2 Grayling

Wading is very difficult. In most of the stretch it is impossible to get down to the river unfortunately.

1 Trout

Nothing moving all afternoon but hooked a couple around 5 and landed one. Too small to keep. Took a little brown nymph drifting across the current at bottom of the beat

1 Trout