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Two good takes all day but no sight of a silver scale. Both fish were tempted with a heavily weighted Hares Ear nymph fished across and down the margins. River running clear but fast and high, difficult to know where to start. Very windy and chilly wading.

A pleasant enough day with the water at 8 degrees and 1'6" at the start but which then unexpectedly rose to 1'9" over the course of the day. So it was really pushing through making access to certain usually accessible and fish-holding parts of the beat an absolute no-go. No midday olives and no rising fish at any time but I still rose a couple of 10-12" fish to a HE emerger whist fishing duo. Surprisingly litle on nymphs fished this way, apart from a few graylets, and nothing Czech nymphing on bigger usually attractive bugs. Maybe the rising water put them off or maybe the ladies have begun to move to pastures new? Probably now time to get out the trotting gear for more efficient searching (but not here of course!).

River still on the high side after all the rain but fishable lower down in the beat. (just above 2ft on gauge) 2 grayling estimated 11" & 14" plus 3 out of season browns. All fish taken middle river over gravel banks on spectra/red tag jig nymph on point and one fish on pink shrimp dropper. All fish released.

River a little too high but we managed 7 grayling to 16", and one out of season brown. Some on a pink bug but most on dry grayling steel blue. All fish returned.

Last throw for salmon and blanked again. Did have one pull and caught a trout of about a pound at Cillau Falls.

Beat directions in need of a re write. A bit inaccurate in part. Separate note to WUF.

A lovely still autumn day with a few PWs and LDOs but very few rises. Have never fished Ty Newydd when it is quite so high (1' 8") and after it had risen 6" overnight. So, water cool at 13 degrees but running reasonably clear, although appeared a tad murkier over the afternoon. Had 18 grayling of mainly the smaller year classes but a few of 12-13" plus half a dozen small out-of-season browns and quite a few 3-4" graylets. That's the good news - the bad was seeing 7 roosting cormorants on arrival and four goosanders off and on throughout the day (will report to the Angling Trust FEB website). Most fish came to Grayling Steel Blue, one to a Treacle Parkin spider and a few to a skinny tung-headed pink nymph. Hard graft (and "interesting" wading in the slighly murky and pacier than usual water!!). With settled weather and still quite warm, it should fish well over the next few days.

Blanked. First time to this beat. Imagine we could have done with 6" more water and a lot less sunshine. Didn't see or touch any salmon unfortunately. Both really enjoyed our day in stunning surroundings though. Plenty of fishing to go at and I think you do need to make the most of both banks.

One small out of season brown trout caught on a size 16 "red neck" (i.e. a PTN with a red collar). He was subsequently released. I also hooked one further trout and, I think, a grayling, but unfortunately could not land either. Beautiful scenery and very helpful directions to find it. I recommend this beat.

Bring on the Indian Summer if this is what is going to happen - sunny and hot all day but pretty breezy too from mid-morning until late afternoon. Early stonefly, a few PWs but none of yesterday's olives seen further up the river at Abernant. Very few rises; mainly oncers. However, we managed to catch 42 grayling between us (but very few trout). Most grayling taken on emerger patterns irrespective of whether they were rising or non-rising fish. Flies included HE, olive and PW emergers and Grayling Steel Blue (about 1/3 of all emerger-caught fish taken on this pattern). L's catch, whilst fishing duo, also included eight grayling taken on a tiny, gold tung-headed pink nymph whilst D, less productively at this time, slavishly persevered with emergers (the benefit of ringing the changes)! Fish from 8-12 inches, and a significant number in the 13-15 inch class. A good day to reward L's journey from the Dee.

Lovely day with fish rising on arrival around 11am and continued but slowed, through the day. 4 grayling and 1 small wild brown between the two rods - none taken. Biggest was grayling of around 1lb. Fish taken on dry fly, spider and gold-head nymph patterns in fast and slow water.