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Beautiful day to spend a couple of hours on bottom half this delightful stretch of wild stream. Hooked, but didn't land, a couple of free rising 'micro' grayling whose appetites were bigger than their mouths! Also moved a good size trout on the edge of a deep pool. Lots of fly life and large shoals of fry. Top half next week and I may just revisit that pool!

5 x grayling 11-17 inches, trotting. Two good ones, but all very nice looking fish. A hard frost and the temperature never rose in this valley, so problems with rod ring icing and the net froze on my back. Water 0.279 on the gauge, running fast and a greenish/grey colour. I'm afraid I cried off early to go and warm up in the car.

5 Grayling

2 Grayling

2 anglers trotting found it hard going in every sense, even between us we couldn't quite cover the whole beat in a day so likely missed a couple of pools. We were rewarded with a couple of nice grayling at 14" and 15" - made it all worthwhile though. All the trout were under 10".

4 Trout, 5 Grayling

Perfect autumn day for Grayling on the Ithon at Llandewi, using a 15' 5:5 Tenkara rod with french leader, had one decent fish 14" from a middle pool on a peeping caddis, then the same fly was taken by something much bigger & heavier. After about 10 minutes of deep resistance & a few lunging runs around the pool, it broke the surface & I was more than surprised to see it was a salmon! Luckily my tippet held out & combined with the extra flex in the rod I managed to land it after another 10 minutes, I would guess the weight about 5-6lb. Fish was unhooked in the water & safely returned.

1 Salmon, 2 Trout, 1 Grayling

A lovely beat, and fished with real pleasure if to little result. Conditions somewhat damp and overcast, and no rises seen. Two fish caught and safely released - a trout and a grayling, both taken in the tail of a pool on a gold beaded PTN.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

A slow and unproductive day which featured very gusty spells, plenty of tangles and a lot of swearing! With no rising fish to be seen I fished duo and to my surprise a very large and heavy grayling took the indicator fly, I had forgotten to pack the tape measure so have to estimate it at 16” plus. I changed to dry flies but none of the size 16 or 18 patterns were accepted so I returned to duo and again the big fly was taken, and so it was for all the fish. Big barbless Sedge not sure what size and # 12 black and pink Klinkhammer.... and when trying these flies without the nymphs below there were no results. Trout around 10-11” , 2nd grayling 12” ish.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

Nice day but water a bit brown. Trout caught on GBHE, Greyling on a PTN.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

catch 6 BT (4 x 13/14 inches), and 1 grayling (14 inches)... fished with nymphs, I did not spot a single fish raising.

6 Trout, 1 Grayling

first time fishing on the ithon, very nice stretch of of water and easy wading throughout. conditions not too good to start off with (high and dirty water)but soon dropped down 6" and cleared out a bit. fish difficult to find but i was very pleased to end the day with a very fat 17" grayling .

3 Trout, 2 Grayling