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Out first visit to the Irfon. Water levels low with weather overcast but warm. Moderate fly life in evidence but little surface activity. The Llanfechan stretch is magnificent with as much variety of fishing pools and runs as you could hope for. Wading in chest waders was comfortable. Only one fish was caught but what a fish. A beautiful WBT of 3 to 3 1/2lbs. caught on a dragonfly nymph that looked uncannily like a small fry pattern! We will return in the Autumn to search out some grayling. A great day's fishing even with only one fish caught.

1 Trout

Lovely river, unfortunately no fish seen or caught.

I fished as a guest of the new owner Dai Gingell for a couple of hours and I was immensely impressed with the 'fishiness' of the water. I only fished sporadically but had two trout. The first was certainly a pound plus and put up a heck of a fight on my #4 rod. I rather assumed this was exceptional but my next fish was even bigger and could have made a pound and a half and took line from my reel as it went up and down the pool. Dai followed this up with a fish on a small nymph which like my brace gave a very good account of itself. Stunningly pretty water and great fishing.

3 Trout

I arrived at around 6am and the river was running a little high and coloured but managed raise several fish but missed them all apart from a small WBT of about 8", left at 12.30pm, very nice stretch of river.

1 Trout

The river was incredibly low after such a long hot and dry spell. Fortunately there was some cloud and a bit of breeze to help. Low water obviously means there is less water to search so I concentrated on the deep gutters and pools. On some parts of the beat that was all that was left. Glaslyn Flat was a dry bed except for the channel under the far bank. Took two nice grayling and a trout (all returned) on a John Goddard emerger when the fish started looking up in the Penrhw sections.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

A beautiful beat but the fish were very elusive! Despite trying a variety of techniques only 1 fish came to the net with only 2 more 'pricked'. River was clear (as was the sky for most of the day) with a good flow. We didn't stay late so perhaps we missed the best time. Wading in the rocky gullies was trickey and a wading stick was essential. Will return sometime as there must be more fish in this lovely river.

1 Trout

Absolutely beautiful beat, however river is so low I walked virtually the whole length on dry bedrock. Found a pool with enough water and sure enough caught two small trout. I did have a large salmon (3ft) attempt to take a fly as I was reeling in, which startled me so much I nearly fell in!!! great day out in this beautiful part of the countryside.

2 Trout

River running clear. Cold wind but sunny in the morning, clouding over with drizzle in the afternoon. Good hatches of March Brown in particular, but no surface activity by fish. Two big grayling (20 inches) were unhooked in water and swam off. One on a goldhead hare's ear under an indicator, the other on a wet march brown pattern fished on a dropper above a weighted fly. Of trout there was not a sign.

2 Grayling

Fly fishing, 2 hours at mud pool and 1 hour at the next 2 beats upriver. Sinking and sub-surface fly/nymph patterns around smaller boulders and under branches where possible. No fish taken.

We didn't catch anything however we were couple of very beginner anglers. It was windy and didn't have waders, so we could only fly fish a small section of Llanfechan. We saw a few 12 to 16 inch trout and grayling through the clear waters. Very scenic part of the world and would totally recommend trying your luck here.