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River carrying six inches or so of extra water and a little bit of colour. Ended up with 6 small trout and five grayling, 10" to 13". Most of these came to dry fly late afternoon / early evening.

Wonderful beat with a wide variety of wildlife seen including kingfishers and otters playing in the water. Caught 2 brown trout - both about 6" on a Parachute Adams - plenty more takes and should have caught more but missed out due to the inexperience of a novice angler!

River was very low, not much more than knee-deep over most of the deeper runs. It was also a sunny day with clear water. We watched water all day and fished if we saw any activity but this was rare. Caught nothing but enjoyed the river nonetheless. We did see a lamprey 100 metres upstream from the church, by itself but appearing to be looking for a 'scrape'.

Due to traffic didnt arrive til mid afternoon what a lovely beat. River up .3metre with light colour. Took 1st brownie on parachute grey duster only 10" but fin perfect. We found it tough fishing very few flies on water due to very strong wind, small hatch disappeared when colder water from heavy morning showers arrived late pm water colouring noticably by 8pm. Total for 2 rods 5 trout 6-11in. Must try again with hopefully better hatch.

Water incredibly low and clear with little flow in the pools - in the "Grandstand" and by the church it was more like being on a lake or a canal, with trout seen cruising to take fly whilst we had lunch - good quiet wading practice! It did mean though that we could get to normally inaccessible parts of the river. Hardly any fly - a handleful of tail-end grannom, some olives, and one or two large brook duns. Very few rising fish, most of which turned out to be grayling. Not much to show for the day either, with just one trout of 1.25lb and seven grayling three of which were 15-16 inches. Fish taken on olive and hare's ear emergers and one on an olive nymph, mainly in deeper water with a bit of pace. Similar story on the Usk the previous day, with some good rising fish of up to 2.5lb taken on hare's ear and olive emergers, but nothing taken on spiders, very few fish rising and little fly apart from black gnats and a one or two tail-end grannom. Bring on the rain ASAP!

Clear water, sunny day with a light breeze. Good hatch earlier in the day. 1 Trout and a couple of Grayling, all on the dryfly. A pleasant and challenging few hours.

Really nice day with water level very low, we managed to see few trouts rising on sedges and managed to catch a few of decent sizes. We saw few big fishes moving on slow/deep pools but it was impossible to reach them as they were very spooky. Managed to see few big graylings raising but left them alone when we realised it was them. The fishes looked concentrated in few big pools while other looked empty. No olives or other flies moving apart from sedges.

I hope this helps.

1 x grayling 1.5lbs. 1 x trout 10oz. Karen had 1 brownie of 10oz.

One chub caught on a dry fly on what seemed like a perfect trouting spring day. I saw what I thought was a good trout early on as I arrived at the beat but it might have been a chub. There was quite a hatch starting around 11.00am and fish were rising but were they all chub?! Despite the day getting warmer and the water was low and gin clear I did not see or spook a trout all day. After 1.00pm the hatch slowed down. This is a marvellous stretch of river but one has to wonder about the trout population. Beware of wearing felt soles on the slate bottom which is currently covered in fine layer of mud - it is worse than ice.

No fish caught (trotting with maggot). After all the rain the previous day the Irfon was still slightly high, although it was fishable. It rained again during the morning, which brought the river up again by a few inches. The sun finally made an appearance after lunch, which caused a few stoneflies to hatch and a brought on a short-lived rise from what I assumed to be trout. It's a shame the river wasn't fishing as well as it was last week, but it's always nice to be up at Cefnllysgwynne.