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2 Grayling

Weird day, plenty of fly on water other than small grayling nothing coming to it. All grayling between 9-12 inches and oos trout 9-14 inches. I spotted something of size so flicked my nymph upstream then bang I struck into a very large brown trout that tore fifty yards upstream and with one huge leap spat my hook..this fish was big and I mean proper big... over 4lb big. After fishing the wild streams for years and landing trout to 16 inches this beast almost gave me a Sean coronary, brief encounter but explosive.

3 Trout, 5 Grayling

12 grayling 9 over 10 inches. All on nymphs, below the bridge. Caught my best grayling about 2 pounds. Good day

12 Grayling

Caught lots of very small grayling on tiny grey duster but nothing to bend the rod. I will be returning soon to try the nymphs. Lane is very narrow I had to reverse twice on the way down & three times on the way up. The locals treat it like a race track.

Lovely afternoon. Was on the river from 12:00 to 15:30. All fish taken on nymphs. Hit a shoal of grayling - brilliant fun. Lovely little river. Brilliant fun.

1 Trout, 7 Grayling

1 Grayling

Clear and sunny conditions all day. Fishing was slow going for most of the day. Caught one 1lb grayling on a pink shrimp in the pool adjacent to the road leading toward the bridge.

1 Grayling

I had to work harder for my fish today on a low and clear river. The cold start to the day, coupled with the beat having been fished the previous day, may also have been factors. I picked up one or two fish from most of the runs I fished; but none of the 5 and 6 fish from the same run that I associate with Lyepole at this time of year. I also found that, a lot of the time, I had to cover a fish upwards of a dozen times before getting a response. As with my previous trip, everything on the same nymph - a Tungsten Endrick Spider. Today's count will be more accurate than previous counts; for some reason, the Grayling figure stayed in my head and, with 4 of the trout coming in the last 15 minutes, even a dunderhead like me could work that one out.
An autumn day at Lyepole, and all's well with the world ...

6 Trout, 17 Grayling

Fished for one hour without any action.

Lypole has it’s own micro-climate. A chance conversation with the holiday cottage residents confirmed that it had rained during the night. That explained why the river was a bit swifter and more coloured than I’d expected. At no stage during the day was there much of a hatch or sign of fish feeding on the surface. My first session along the upper section yielded nothing until just before noon when two very nice 11-12” trout came to a heavy Pink Shrimp in deep runs near the weir. After lunch it was all Grayling. Three beauties of 12”-14” came to the same Pink Shrimp fished deep in the slower pools of the lower section between the cattle drink and the cottage. Back on the upper section during the late afternoon another 11” Grayling took a Black Klinkhammer in the deeply undercut bend about 200 metres up from the bridge. The rest of the Grayling were quite tiny.
This is a beautiful and fickle beat, it can be so frustrating. You pay your (significant) money and you take your chance. Today I drove away a happy and contented man.

2 Trout, 8 Grayling