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1' 5" on the Llanstephan gauge, air temperature 8deg river nice and clear. Only had a couple of hours today so keep thing simple with a single pink headed tungsten nymph. All the grayling were about 10" and the trout not much bigger. It was noticeable that all takes were quite subtle so quite possibly I missed some others.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

A few hours to spare so was hoping for a few grayling but sadly trout were far more active the time I was there. Water moving well and clear but a little to turbulent and deep to get mid river where I feel they were holding in some lovely foam lanes. But still a nice afternoon out.

9 Trout, 1 Grayling

7 x grayling 11-15 inches, 9 x out of season trout 10-16 inches, trotting. A very grey, foggy day with drizzling showers off and on. Water at 1 ft 9 inches, falling slightly and rather coloured. A very slow start with out of season trout initially being much more interested than grayling. I went for a walk to the far end of the beat to warm up - the white egret is still around and becoming quite a familiar sight. Grayling finally woke up towards dark, just before I packed up.

7 Grayling

Beautiful but very cold morning on the LLangoed beat, the water was running gin clear and the Grayling took a bit of searching for but once found came consistently for a couple of hours. They mostly came to small hares ear and pheasant tail jigs fished on a french leader.

15 Grayling

Zero fish today, although we only fished for a few hours. Fly fishing for grayling.

5 x grayling 10-14 inches, 2 x chub in the 3-4 pounds range, 3 x out of season trout 9-13 inches, trotting. At 2ft 3 inches and still plenty of colour, the river was higher than I had hoped for and racing along when I arrived. Not much doing to begin with, but as the level dropped and the water cleared a few fish were picked up by searching the slacker areas. Which is exactly what the cormorants and goosanders were doing.

5 Grayling

Very low water, we only had 2 grayling between us, though having to return to london we only fished till midday.

2 Grayling

Just 2 small grayling. Lovely beat though and was spoilt by fine views with autumn colours in a moody sunlight for most of the day.

2 Grayling

Thought I would get a day in before the forecast cold snap; I know the grayling like it cold but it's not so good for me. It turned out to be 10 deg with some sun around so quite pleasant. With the Llanstephan gauge showing 10" the river was quite low for the time of year. Found the fishing quite hard work with not many fish about, or so it seemed to me. Managed 4 grayling to 12" all on an olive spider as top dropper. The usually successful red tag and beadhead GRHE on middle dropper/point were ignored. Tried to avoid the faster shallower water to give the trout a break but nevertheless had a couple, also on olive spider. As the light faded a few rises suggested dry fly but tying them on in the aforesaid fading light was beyond me so end of session. Nice to see a salmon splashing around and a kingfisher.

2 Trout, 4 Grayling

It was an enjoyable days fishing on the Wye today and the river was at perfect height, we started out fishing the lower part of the beat and the Wye and Usk Foundation are correct about needing felt soled waders as it is extremely slippy and I fell in and was almost swept away. All the fish were caught on a size 16 tungsten headed pheasant tailed nymph with a hint of green flash in the head and a pink Czech nymph. A spiral indicator was very useful to detect the subtle bites.

4 Grayling