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Best grayling was the first at about 12" and never managed to get into a shoal but an enjoyable day nevertheless.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

Misty start, by 11am it lifted: rest of the day was sunny plenty of fly life blue duns mainly, grayling taking at all depths. 15 grayling landed and released 6 missed, Griffiths gnat, quill nymphs and spider patterns.

15 Grayling

15 grayling, all but one 12-16". 10 on dries grey duster size 16, others on nymph with a bit of red in in it. Lot of fish in the head of the runs. Be careful of those boulders they are slippy. Great day.

15 Grayling

Rain interrupted fishing!

Grayling to 16in trout to 12in. Fish caught early on at bottom of beat and then heavy rain killed sport for rest of the day.

4 Trout, 4 Grayling

24 x grayling 12-18 inches, five on nymphs and the rest on dry Grayling Steel Blue. A cold and foggy start so we lingered over Olympic Breakfasts in the Builth Wells Little Chef (in the grayling anglers' tradition) before making our way to the river. Some time was spent nymphing, but it was really a dry fly day, warm and still, lots of leaves on the surface, and pale wateries hatching regularly. Very nice dry fly fishing, the kind of autumn day we hope for, with a very good average size of grayling - no shotts taken at all. A heavy cock grayling measured at 18 inches was the last fish of the day as dusk came on.

24 Grayling

Cold start to the day ment I used heavy nymphs for the first couple of hrs that produced about six grayling. As the day warmed up the fish got a bit more active towards a continual hatch of pale watery's, bwo's and the occasional caddis so dry fly was used for the rest of day. All fish between 8" and 14" great sport.

1 Trout, 20 Grayling

A super day on a lovely beat. Weather was mild and mostly sunny with light winds. Fish were rising but only in bursts of about 5-10 minutes, followed by a lull for perhaps 30 minutes. All our fish were caught on dry flies, mostly small (size 20) griffith gnats. Best fish was 16 inches, perhaps about 1lb 10 ozs, but average size was 12-13 inches. Another Angler sharing the beat had more than 20 grayling. He was obviously more experienced (or skillful) than us.

8 Grayling

A very bright day, nil returned. Many thanks.

1 Trout, 10 Grayling