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Lovely day on the river very mild for February, no fish for me today. My mate had a decent Barble and a good size Chub.

Fished the end swim opposite the castle. The flow was very strong so fished the near side, it was a beautiful day and location. Fished a cage feeder with mixed size pellet and curry flavoured meat on size 8 barbless with a medium length hair rig then changed to krill boilie using a 3 foot hook link.

Catch Details:
Chub 3lb @ 10:45
Chub 2.5lb @ 12:32
**Bait change**
Barbel 8lb @ 13:10
Chub 5lb @ 13:20

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Two of us fishing. A first visit to this impressive venue. Fairly low level of water, fining down but still carrying a f colour. Conditions seemed very favourable. Quickly became apparent that water was moving through deceptively quickly, and at least 3oz were required to hold, even in less pacey stretches. Pellet, meat, bread all used with feeder, but to no avail. A good three hours spent mixing things up, the first fish, a Chub of about 3.5lb was banked shortly after mid-day. An hour or so later, another Chub was taken, a bigger fish around 4lb. Both fell to cheese paste.
Hard going. A fairly strong breeze may not have helped with bite detection, but this bright, mild day seemed to promise so much more. An angler on the opposite bank, using the water in front of the cabin, also appeared to be struggling. Just one of those days I suppose.

2 Chub

Lovely day on the river trotting with mixed maggots. Caught 8 Grayling and 1 OOS Brown. Next time will try Euro Nymphing.

1 Trout, 8 Grayling

1 Grayling

Tried 3 nymphs on a slightly coloured water 1 turn over but a strong wind and 6ft 6in 3w almost impossible to cast but good to be out

Fantastic day trotting maggots plus 1 OOS brown on the fly. Eighteen fish caught between two of us. Sixteen grayling and two OOS browns. Llanstephan gauge on 2ft.

1 Trout, 7 Grayling

It was 10.5C, which was warmer than a few weeks ago, however the wind which grew in strength as the day worn on was biting. Explored downstream a bit further and was rewarded by one tiny Grayling, however a fish is a fish!

1 Grayling

Fished afternoon only, about half way down the beat.
The river was flowing quite strong and flow seemed to increase as the day went on.
Started with a 4oz feeder but ended up having to use a 7oz feeder to hold in the flow after crossing foy bridge from hole in the wall side.
That combined with a change to a shorter hooklink and a bigger hook resulted in a small chub of around 1 1/2lb. Did have a few other knocks and enquiries but nothing came of them.
I was using a 2. 25 test curve rod, 12lb mainline to a 10lb floro hooklink which was about 2ft long. Caught the fish on a spicy sausage dumbell after trying krill boilies for the first 2 hours without a sniff.
Still unsure if you can actually fish both sides of the beat. It clearly says you can on the map and could see a few places opposite that looked fishable from the bank that could be accessed by walking down the fields on lh side of bank (looking downstream from the bridge), but remember reading you would have to wade to across to access that bank.
Perhaps someone could clarify this for me. Thanks.
Lovely place to fish. Would highly recommend others have a go.

Fishing Passport Note : Some double bank fisheries will only have agreed access on one side of the river.

1 Chub

Trotting today. Gauge was at 0.65m on this very blustery day. Walked a lot and tried an a large number of pools for the larger grayling but to no avail. 3 grayling landed were very small which I guess might bode well for the future. One of the 3 x OOS trout was magnificent at 17 inches, fought well and carefully returned without leaving the water, would have been very pleased with that in season on the fly. As ever a delightful tranquil setting, did not see a sole all day.

3 Trout, 3 Grayling