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Caught half a dozen grayling up to 1.25 lbs all on dries-rose a few others and lost a couple. Was given sound river advice by the river owner. Rose a few others and lost a couple. A delightful day out.

11 fish in total plus plenty of other action. Biggest fish 1 3/4lb. Fin perfect fish on goldhead from gutter at very top of beat. 4 other fish over a pound and the rest 10 inches. Fish rising to pale wateries and fairly large sedges all afternoon in the riffled water and bodies of all pools; responding to klinkhammers and red-tags. Finished off as the sun set at the glaslyn, with a solid fish of well over the pound from the pool tail. Cracking fishing as always.

6 x grayling - largest 16" (1.5 lb). 3 x trout - largest 12" (1lb). 1 x salmon parr. Caught on Klinkhamer, Red Tag and Partridge and Orange spider

3 very small trout on small goldheads, no grayling caught,
cold wet and windy, with lots of leaves blown off the trees making presentation difficult. Advice etc from foundation was first class.

Booked the day prior through the Booking Office which was helpful as always. Arrived on the day and was introduced to the water by Mr. Picton, who's information proved invaluable due to the length of the beat. River was high. Hardly any fly life was observable and consequently almost nothing was rising. That said, I have no doubt over the abundance of resident fish. Managed to take two brown trout to 16 inches and a chub of just over a foot all on a klinkhammer. I rose a few more, but failed to hook them. A perfectly enjoyable day on a lovely stretch of river that one could easily spend a week. I look forward to returning.

There was a hard frost last night with the air temperature still showing 1C when I arrived. The river looked in good condition though. Dispite a few sunny spells, there was little evidence of insect activity through the day and just the occasional fish rising - to what I never worked out. I fished the top end of the fishery for the first time today. Five grayling and one trout were caught; all around the 10" mark, except for one grayling about 14". Two of the grayling came to dry fly, everything else to a ptn.

No fish caught, but a very pleasant few hours in the sunshine on an attractive looking beat.

2 grayling ½lb and ¾lb both on leaded shrimp. 1 brown trout ½lb on dry cdc. Others risen and lost. Plenty of fish rising during miiddle of day and early afternoon. A lovely days fishing.

We just love this stretch of river. One day we will fish it on one of the really good days when the fish are really on the feed. Having said that, we did manage 12 B.Trout and 3 Grayling between us. Look forward to the next time.

Saturday on the Irfon was better - less wind. We started on the long stretch below the island, close to the hotel & hardly progressed much beyond the Rocks. Dry fly worked well, which suited me. We caught 20 grayling to 2lbs. & 8 trout to 13". 2 salmon parr came to my fly. There are some mink about.