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A bit of a tough day, plus some incompetence! Not too much rising, managed just two takes to dry fly and failed to connect with either of them. Hooked a small trout on a ptn, but managed to lose that too.

Pleasant day but with a cold wind, blowing straight down the river. Good hatch of olives at 12noon when wind dropped,fish started rising and I connected with a couple before the wind got up again and it went dead after a 10min flurry.

2 Trout

Temperature just above 1 degree at 9am with a very cold easterly wind. No signs of life despite best efforts with bugs and nymphs. Lovely beat and suspect will fish better once warmed up, including myself!!

A very pleasant beat. Unfortunately, the grayling eluded me! I fished through the entire beat with Czech nymphs suspended from a bite indicator to no avail. Caught a 3lb out of season trout which was returned.

After a very slow and icey, scary drive along the old hospital road (do take care on this winding lane) we arrived at the Gofynne beat which is a beautiful part of the river Irfon. It was a cold start at 3 degrees. We fished nymphs and bugs in the clear water and had to fish a lot of the beat to find the elusive Grayling. C found a few rising fish swapped the nymphs over to a small tan F fly and was straight into a hard fighting Grayling which he nicely played into the net a lovely conditioned fish about 1.5lb. He took another good fighting Grayling. I
was not so lucky. We saw a big salmon as we crossed the river. Saw one Cormarant fly over.

Fished from 12 noon for two and a half hours in bright sunshine. Advised locally that river was high, had a lot of leaves and associated debris flowing and was running very fast - this proved to be an accurate assessment of river condition. Sporadic hatch of Olives. Saw no fish - raised no fish with a dry - contacted no fish with nymph/bug.
Despite all of the above an enjoyable November fishing trip - will definitely go back in 2013.

5 grayling.

Yet another fantastic day on this lovely beat. Can't believe it's already been a year since we were last here. This time not only was the weather better but so was the fishing. Had two grayling of about 12'' and one, my personal best, of about 18''. This was taken on a LT Klink and the other two were taken on a Red Tag and a Czech nymph. Lost a few as well. Last cast also saw a small wbt fall to a Czech nymph. All in all a truly memorable day. Cheers WUF and cheers to Lily my wonderful wife for arranging the surprise birthday session xxx

River high and coloured, borderline unfishable, but we gave it a go. Searching out the deeper pots and eddys, we managed 3 grayling and a couple of WBT on heavy shrimp and peeping caddis patterns. Nothing big but any catch in the conditions felt like a victory.

A good day - 8 grayling between the two rods including two cracking fish at 18". Most fish came to nymphs with a couple on an LT klink. Several parr and a couple of v. small trout were also encountered on a very low and clear river. Many thanks WUF.