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A testing day with 6" more water on Byton gauge than I would have liked. Water was coloured and full of leaves. Fished with two nymphs and ended up with 4 grayling ranging from 4" to 12" and 2 oos wbt of 10" each both of which spent more time in the air than the water. Bite detection a challenge - must have hooked 50 leaves over the day.
Probably last chance to fish this season - roll on the Spring!

2 Trout, 4 Grayling

Nothing caught at Dolgau today but I managed to catch from Crych Du a very fresh 4lbs cock salmon on a large heavy pencil fly.

1 Salmon

Traveled from Essex on Sunday afternoon knowing the river was rising so not too optimistic.
Delighted to find, when I started today, that the river had been dropping overnight. Spent the first 2 hours down at the bottom bend opposite the pylon, no sign of fish so moved to the area approx 75yds d/s of the hut. Started catching barbel straight away, caught consistently for the rest of the day on ledger/pellet set up. Finished up with 12 barbel best being the last fish which was 9lb also had a 4lb 8oz chub. Never dreamed, when I left home, it would be as good as this.

12 Barbel, 1 Chub

One small grayling.

1 Grayling

Had two smallish pike. Didn't bother to weigh but both less than 10lb. Missed a strike from a bigger fish.

2 Pike

River running very fast and coloured. Caught 2 barbel and 6 chub, the conditions... weather was not ideal, i.e. raining on and off and windy, but we both still enjoyed the day.

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

Fished bottom end, water high with a lot of colour, 1 barbel & 1 chub.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Took a gamble with the river being high but well worth the effort. If I didn't know the beat as well as I do, I'd never have got in the river. But after carefully positioning myself on the shelf, I fished the shallow water under the trees as the gutter was unfishable. Proved the right move with plenty of fish were there avoiding the fast flow. Took some lovely Grayling to 16 inches and a number of trout similar size who clearly did not know what the date was! Testing, but enjoyable days fishing.

5 Trout, 10 Grayling

River was still high but pretty clear. Worked hard to little avail. Very strong wind and falling barometer. Beautiful water, we'll definitely be back.

2 Trout

Beautiful stretch, challenging water conditions with the river high and coloured, difficult to present bait effectively as a result. Lost a large fish in the stretch before the wooded section early on, then settled into the pump pool for the afternoon. We took 5 barbel in total which we were pleased with given the water conditions. Largest was about 7lb. Hooked something which took off like a rocket and bent my hook out. Can only imagine it was the elusive double.

5 Barbel, 1 Chub