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What a beautiful day. I thought this beat looked incredible in Winter but on a warm, sunny Autumn day this place is heaven. I trotted red maggot on the bottom half of the beat and thought I'd treat my new 4x4 to a trip down to the church. Parking here was so easy and makes the long slog back to the car at the end of the day a thing of the past!

Just like yesterday trout were first to the bait, some of them a very good size, one male fish of 18" put on an incredible scrap, I thought I'd hooked a small salmon at first! Two small chub made an appearance near the downstream limit.

The day was topped off when on my last cast I landed a beautiful 17½" male Grayling that fought amazingly in the flow. He went 2lb 3oz on the scales and is a new personal best. I was absolutely over the moon with that and it made the 3 hour drive home seem a breeze.

This place really is one of my favourite places on Earth, another wonderful days fishing at Cefnllysgwynne.

15 Trout, 4 Grayling, 2 Chub

We decided this time to head up to the top end of the beat and try up there. First pool a Grayling of about 1lb slipped the hook a the net and then for the rest of the day it was just interest from trout sadly. Definitely the bottom half of the beat lends itself more to trotting which is what I did the following day when I fished solo.

11 Trout

Very quiet, with no sign of grayling - only an OOS trout appeared to take any interest in the fly!

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

1 Grayling

1 Grayling

3 Grayling

3 grayling up to 1lb.
No trout seen rising or caught.
Tough day with low water and grayling very hard to find.

3 Grayling

The water had cleared this morning but was still a strong black tea colour. Sporadic rises gave us something to aim at and we soon caught a couple of brown trout to 1lb on Klinkhamer flies. It then went very quiet with little fly life coming off the water so we brewed up and had lunch. We roamed through the downstream section of the beat but apart from tiny fish taking the wet fly, we landed nothing worth noting until the sun started to drop. We headed to the lower and slower part of the beat for the last session and caught trout, grayling and chub up to the 1lb mark on dry flies. The water felt cold and it was not easy fishing but we enjoyed the day immensely in spite of our meagre catches.

4 Trout, 2 Grayling, 1 Chub

4 Trout