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Stumbled upon a small shoal early on, but the rest of the day was slow. Hare's Ear grub and a PT variant. Had a lovely chat with a fellow angler who seemed to know a thing or two about fishing in these parts.

5 Grayling

4 x grayling 12-13 inches, 2 x out of season trout 12 and 15 inches, heavy nymphs and leaded wet flies. With the gauge starting at 1ft 9 inches, it was darned difficult today - certainly possible to fish as the water was clear, but difficult to get round the various spots. Had a interesting chat with NH of Bristol/Massachusets, and he may have done better. I left him to it as drizzle began around 4 o'clock.

4 Grayling, 2 Trout

1 rod with 3 barbel & 2 decent chub, all 5 fish in the first 2 hours then nothing for the rest of the day, all on feeder & pellets. 2nd rod with 15 chub & 1 grayling all on the maggots feeder on the far side, only 2 of the chub of decent size, the rest between 1 & 1& 1/2 lb. A good days fishing.

1 Grayling, 3 Barbel, 17 Chub

Not a bite all day.

Tough cold day after a few hard frosts this week. Moved around a bit but a 3lb chub saved the blank.
Fished a couple of swims upstream of the car parking area. Banks still very muddy.

1 Chub

The 5 Grayling were taken trotting maggots 2 of them were over the 1 lb mark. The river was still on the high side but just about fish able for the fly

5 Grayling

River looking nice but freezing fog persisted all day. Tough to locate fish but a few decent grayling caught trotting with maggots. One grayling just over 2lb and a huge OOS Brownie at around 5lb.

2 Trout, 4 Grayling

Well a cold foggy morning when I was out with the pooch this morning at half six !!! Minus two and like pea soup with fog . . . Debating in my head where to wet a line .

Plumbed for the little River Dore , and set off , the usual Hereford traffic driving through aaarrrgh that's why I favour the A44 ti be honest and fishing out towards Rhayader and Aberystwyth , still never mind !!!

Got there at ten , parked up at the Tan House Farm pull in , still reading one degrees in my truck, tackled up my six foot two weight , as I know it is always tight in the stream here , single silver and pink tungsten nymph tied on and bimbled down to the beat start . . . . .

Worked slowly up, one small six inch brownie on , slipped back in , mid way on the beat , a decent deep deep pool , worked the nymph, bang!!@ something decent on , and played out a cracking twelve inch grayling, admired then slipped back in , two minutes later and into another one, ditto in size , into a good thing I thought !! But I really worked that pool and no more ladies playing at the party today!! Still was nice to get the two this morning , and that was my lot , a lovely amble upstream, I must say it's in desperate need of a hair cut and lots of new trees fallen across the stream , shame really!!! But three chaps with loppers will tidy this up a treat , needs it big time !!!

A fun couple of hours , two lovely ladies to the net , oh and a rather nice Mailes Pie from Locks Garage . . . . . . . Weeeeeeeell gotta be done hey !!!!

2 Grayling

Pretty chilly in the frosty fog . I stuck it for 3 hrs wading well into the deeper stretches with a bug and small copper head ptn. Never found the grayling but had a nice OOS BT on the ptn.

1 Trout