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Nothing caught, but a lovely day on the river nonetheless.

A bit of a struggle but nice to catch something on the first day of the year. The predicted breeze was more like a gale at times which made fishing difficult. One small grayling and two of 10 inches, taken on PTN and Czech nymphs. Also lost a small trout.

3 Grayling

River up a few inches and pushing through a bit but otherwise looked good. Still, struggled to locate many fish and finished the day with three 4 inch grayling, a ten and eleven incher and an OOS brownie of eleven inches. All taken on a various heavy czech/tungsten beaded nymphs fished on point and single dropper.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

In common with everywhere else, the Irfon needs rain to give it a flush through. Some spots that were fishable a few weeks ago are now just inches deep. Still, managed to contact some grayling which made for a really satisfying day. The first four were taken using a two nymph rig on a French leader, the size 18 pink beaded PTN dropper being the fly they liked. A few fish began rising so switched to the dry fly and took fish on green sedge and tan klinkhammer patterns. Couldn’t see anything hatching so not sure what they were actually taking! Finally changed back to nymphing and caught on a waterhen bloa and baetis nymph. Several fish were 12 to 15 inches, a couple were 7 inches and the fish of the day a fat 16 inches. All returned.

10 Grayling

Came to Wales to avoid the referendum. River very low so didn't bother to fish and enjoyed a bank walk. Saw a bloated heron.
N.B N.B one patch of Himalayan Balsam and .... Japanese knotweed on second field down!!!!!!
Great little spot.

2 Grayling within 10 minutes of arriving although didn't arrive until after 4.30pm both fish on nymphs fish rising but very sporadically. Weather warm and sunny, stayed in the Lake and Country House Spa Hotel which was very nice. I will return, this is one of my favourite beats to fish in Wales albeit its a bit of a trek on a warm sunny day if you have bad knees!!
I have never seen the water so low while I've been coming to Wales for the last four years.

2 Grayling

Not much surface activity, caught on upstream nymph and downstream wet fly. GRHE nymph, snipe and purple, black and peacock spider all took fish. 1 trout, 5 grayling.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

Fished from 10.30am to 4.30pm. Arrived in very wet conditions with a nasty down stream wind for the first 2hrs . Nothing on any type of lead/tungsten/bead head nymph, no rises. Small amount of fly life. Worked upstream to top pool, river fast flow very clear. Tried a reverse parachute dry fly, long body and was rewarded with a magnificent wbt of 16 inches with Kype nose. 3 casts later, a grayling of 18 inches, approx 2lbs. Both fish from the same run. Other fish all to the same type of fly. What a great day!

7 Trout, 3 Grayling

Lovely stretch of river that I was very much looking forward to visiting!
Unfortunately torrential rain for 3 days previous and then blazing hot sunshine contributed to a terrible day!
Didn't see a sign of a fish anywhere. Stayed from 12 midday till it got dark. Nevermind.

Excellent day’s fishing with trout to 13 inches and grayling to 15 inches. The overall quality of the fish was good with many 10-11 inch fish. Tried various nymphs and caught on all of them – Czech nymph, beaded PTN, stripped quill – but it was a change to a red tag that saw an increase in the number of fish caught, plus a couple lost. Started at the bottom of the beat and fished from 2pm – 8:30pm by which time the light was fading fast. Just about made it back to the pool at the top of the beat to catch a final trout and grayling but most of the fish came from fast runs and pools lower down. Another wonderful day on WUF water.

7 Trout, 18 Grayling