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Trotting maggot for grayling.
This fishery remains a shadow of what it was ten years ago, nevertheless a lovely place to spend a day.

6 Trout, 8 Grayling

First time we have fished the Irfon and tried winter grayling fishing, what an stunning beautiful piece of river, cant believe we have not tried this type of fishing before. Trotted maggots and fished most of beat a lot of walking. my mate based him self at the church end and had the bigger fish, couple of nice chub 2 to 3lb, lots of small grayling all along river up to 10" to 12" no larger fish but did loose a few as well. nice trout around 2.5lb, brilliant day, river was around 0.9m probs pushing through a bit, but the fish were feeding all day, will be coming back soon hopefully. also seen an otter near church.

4 Trout, 8 Grayling, 3 Chub

A tough day searching for grayling on this beautiful stretch of river. I fished upstream of the church as far as the Grandstand Pool. A brutal downstream wind made casting/control difficult with the French leader, but I stuck with the nymphs all day. As the light quickly faded, I'd managed to winkle out 4 out-of-season trout and 2 tiny grayling shots. I did spot an impressive decaying spawned-out double-figure cock salmon, which I suppose was good to see, but I ask again, where are the grayling? Quite depressing really, when I remember how good this river was 10-years ago. Unfortunately, I saw more Goosander than grayling.

4 Trout, 2 Grayling

The river was falling after the previous days rain. Sadly no grayling were landed but a few slipped the hook. One small chub from the lower end of the beat broke up the trout fest.

12 Trout, 1 Chub

A very cold and rising river meant that only a couple of small trout saved the blank.

3 Trout

First time trotting with a centre pin. Small grayling first cast and 1lb trout second cast. Gravel beach just above church. All downhill after that. Low and very clear not helping. 0.474 cilmery gauge.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

River was reading 0.701 at Cilmery and was probably a tad too high, but it was clear. Fished euro nymph set up but struggled with the breeze and getting my nymphs down quick enough in flow. Did manage to land 7 oos brown trout but no grayling. Most of the fish were caught in slack water out of the main flow, where you'd expect them to be if the river wasn't carry so much water.

7 Trout

Could not find any grayling but had a few OOS trout - fished dries only so guessing grayling must have been lying deep. Fished from 1 pm but nothing much hatching to bring grayling up but plenty of tiny fly and sedge on the wing so maybe hatched early or in the dark. Beautiful scenery with weather like a hot suumer day and very enjoyable.

6 Trout

Water a bit too high when I arrived but dropping and clearing as the day went on. Trout were still very active and Grayling harder to locate. Best Grayling was 15 1/2 inches and the trout went up to 14 inches, all on euro nymphing rigs with jig bugs. Beautiful beat, as ever and I am hoping to be back after a frost or two.

7 Trout, 2 Grayling

The river was a bit higher than we anticipated but dropping and clearing so we decided to persevere. Some pools were very different in the high water and wading mostly impossible.

The fish were keeping out of the torrent too and all the ones caught on our usual dries were on an inside line - sometimes right under the rod tip. The trout were paler as they often are in high water so that close to they could be seen coming, The best trout was about 12" and the best grayling - all of which came from the same run - 14". We did swing a salmon fly but no salmon seen - although an 18" trout came for a look see at one point.

It was a great afternoon with the sun shining - a lovely day for our last trip of the trout season. Hopefully the weather will allow us some more time on the river for grayling in the next couple of months.

4 Trout, 3 Grayling