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1 Chub, 1 Other

abandoned due to high and rising water

Another blank to chalk up for Colonel's Water!

The day didn't get off to the most auspicious of starts. My original plan was to fish the Taff, however the overnight rain had lifted the river to over 1.2m, so far too high to fish.

The Irfon was showing 0.65 on the Abernant gauge first thing, so I decided to try somewhere new and booked the Serenity House Middle Irfon beat just below Llangammarch. I walked the entire beat top to bottom, and I picked out only two places where it was safe to enter the river. The entire beat is heavily tree-lined and essentially unfishable in those conditions. Thankfully, a quick call to the WUF secured a refund and I switched to the Colonel's Water.

First off, the beat itself is fantastic, and access is very easy. There are numerous pools, glides, riffles and flats to choose from which look as though they should hold lots of fish. I hooked into an OOS brownie in the very first pool I fished and although it shook itself off the hook, I thought boded well for the day. Sadly, it did not. Not even a sniff and I fished the beat top to bottom and tried every nymph in the box.

Sadly I don't think I'll be back on the Irfon for grayling this season, the Taff is a much better bet. I've caught more grayling in two visits to the Taff than I have on six attempts on the Irfon!

Gales and heavy rain throughout the day. No Grayling today but lovely to be on the river.

River had risen again overnight so a bit too much water & colour for my liking. Couldn’t tempt any grayling but 8 oos trout kept me entertained. Nice to be back on the river though, with kingfishers and treecreepers for company.

8 Trout

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

1 Trout, 1 Grayling, 1 Barbel, 15 Chub

River levels normal, very clear. 6 grayling in total, 3 over 1lb 3 much smaller. All caught in slack glides bottom half of beat pink bug with orange tag gold bead 3.5mm and gold rib. Smaller fish caught on purple sparkle collar bug, black dubbed body silver rib and silver bead.

6 Grayling

5 Chub

Blanked