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My first try at this beat, suspect it needs a little more water than today to bring a few more pools into play. Two trout of about 10" to a weighted GRHE. No fly-life today, probably a bit cold.

2 Trout

0.21m on the gauge and running at a steady pace. Coldish Easterly wind not best for this beat. Good hatch of LDO at about 3.30pm, however, not a riser to be seen. Only caught in deeper water, the trout on a PTN and the rather small grayling on an olive Klink, that came up out of pity ! Good to meet up with S.C. yesterday who is a regular here, while I was out walking, and have a natter about fishing in general.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Hard going with the wind in the wrong direction. Sparse hatches of olives and few rising fish but one of which was a 15" extremely strong grayling which took a size 16 Greenwells and took a long time to land...this fish fought harder than all the others I caught during the winter. 8" trout on a size 18 Adams. Good to meet R.H. who lives close to the river and obviously knows it like the back of his hand.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Bright sunny day; although it was quite warm and river level was pretty good, I did not see any fish raising. I have fished all the day with nymphs, and I manage to catch a very big grayling (18 inches!!), 3 small brown trouts. A salmon was also spotted in the first pool of the beat! Lovely part of the river, I will definitely come back!

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

Fished from 11.30 till 15.30 with weighted nymphs on a Tenkara rod. Both fish around 10 inches caught in the last hour .
River was surprisingly low and clear.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Fishing the wild streams is for me a solitary period of time. I have to admit I spend a lot of time talking to myself! Today was a rare occasion when due to there being two separate parking places at either ends of the beat two us must have arrived simultaneously at each and then met on river. I must say it was a pleasure to meet and chat with knowledgeable O.B.of Gloucestershire and we comfortably shared the beat.
2 small grayling 8" and 10" to a size 18 tungsten bead PTN under a big dry. Unsurprisingly my fellow fisherman did much better! Lovely day with a hint of spring but there are Goosanders around.

2 Grayling

5 x grayling 11-18 inches, trotting. First time for me on this beat, which is a long haul from where I live. A difficult morning to begin with, but some grayling, including several really nice ones, turned up as the day went on. An interesting chat with - and thanks for advice from - SC from Llandeilo Graban who fishes this beat a lot. I opted to trot as maggots were already in store, but I suggest it's probably better as a fly water. I would love to be here with fish rising.

5 Grayling

Underestimated the amount of rain that fell during the night.The river was very coloured, rising with a strong flow. Sheeps carcass beached on gravel spit mid stream on lower section. Not a touch today.

For first time this winter I neither caught nor saw any grayling on this beat..not a touch despite fishing at all depths and with many changes of nymphs.The two small trout, 8"ish, came to size 16 hares ear on the bottom. The water was very coloured to begin with but had cleared by 3pm.

2 Trout

Nothing to be seen on the surface so fished size 16 tungsten bead hares ear under a bushy klink. All the fish from the bottom of the same pool, grayling 15" ,13½ "12" all good heavy fish, trout was 10". Lost two more due to fishing barbless. Came across a 5 lb ish dead salmon with what looked like a bite taken out from the underside....I've never seen an otter on this beat and wondered what the culprit was?

1 Trout, 3 Grayling