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Just one micro grayling today. Hoped for better given the weather but that’s fishing ??‍♂️ beautiful beat and predominantly very good access throughout the whole stretch.

1 Grayling

Fished the lower half of the beat for a few hours. Conditions seemed OK but nothing caught or seen.

Nothing caught

1 Trout

Couldn't Fish as flooded and too dangerous

Beautiful clear day with no wind. River still brownish and running fast making wading challenging in some places. Wonderful day out, sadly with very little activity.

1 Trout

River in beautiful condition however from a fishing perspective things were not good. We visited the river from all four allocated parking spots and soon found out that access into the river was not easy. For example styles were broken and dangerous and many path were overgrown with brambles and impassable, one angler punctured his waders (not good news) we caught nothing and saw nothing. Where have all the fish gone?

We fished a clear 0.48m river on a perfect warm autumn day – thin cloud, no wind and water 11 degrees, kingfishers, and otters for company twice! We fished in all historically productive spots from the glide below Grandstand up to Little Glaslyn (though DC hasn’t fished CLG for five years). Not unexpectedly, hardly any fly, with little midge and a handful of what were probably LDOs, and certainly nothing to elicit a rise. Where appropriate, we tried surface patterns, duo, spiders and EU-nymphed bugs but struggled to find obliging fish, apart from four small OOS trout, 10 5” graylets and only two adult grayling - an 11” fish on a dark olive Duck’s Dun and a lovely 40cm 2.25lb lady for GR on a weighted orange spider. In the many years DC has fished CLG, he’s never had such an unproductive day in such promising conditions. CLG is still a beautiful location but where were the fish and, in particular, the adult grayling? Must come back in 2026 when there’s more fly life or drown some maggots in the coming months!

Note for other anglers, the riparian owner and WUF: the footpath alongside the island in the river, from the stile upstream of Grandstand to the cattle grid, is overgrown with brambles. After some bushwacking, avoiding trip hazards and potentially punctured waders, and line-grabbing branches and briars, a careful reverse was made back to the stile and to the gate from the car park. Access along this footpath should be much better managed and until this happens, we recommend that, like us, anglers should use the farm track from the car park to get upstream to the cattle grid instead. Access elsewhere is fine.

4 Trout, 12 Grayling

4 Trout

2 Trout, 10 Grayling