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Arrived to find the river carrying a lot of colour (this dropped out during the session) I suspect over night rain was the villain here, managed to catch a few fish including a trout which must have been 2lb plus and a Grayling 48cm as well as the usual mix of sizes. all fish caught on nymphs with the gorgonite nymph proving deadly.

1 Trout, 6 Grayling

Arrived to a clear river with mild conditions, took 3 chub to just under 5lb in successive casts then all went quite for a few hours, moved about with no further action.
Had a nice barbel around the 7 pound mark mid afternoon, packed up about 3pm. A very enjoyable mid winter days fishing in beautiful surroundings.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Mild breezy mostly cloudy day. River rising steadily though little colour. It looked good for a couple of barbel but no sign of them all day. Lost a good chub to a hook pull early in afternoon and suffered the same fate with another later on. And that was it!

River was pretty low. With the water being gin clear and barely any flow I thought the conditions would be good for Pike, but I didn't get a bite all day. Fishing sea deadbaits. Trotted suspended bait for most of the time as the flow was such a low pace and I covered a lot of water.
Only fish I saw was a salmon that jumped clear out of the water. Really struggling for Pike so far this season. Last year I did well, but this year they don't seem to be feeding that well yet.

48 x grayling 9-15 inches, 6 x out of season trout 8-11 inches, long trotting. A remarkably contrasting day of weather compared to the past cold week: the air temperature started at 10 degrees and rose to 14 degrees. Balmy conditions but with a strong upstream wind. The river was still pretty cold and showing 1 foot on the Llanstephan gauge. Once again there were a few large dark olives and surprisingly a short but quite intense hatch of willow fly - I thought we had seen the last of those for this year. I just carried on trotting. And I have seen the little egret again, which is getting to be a familiar sight.

48 Grayling

Perfect 3 hours fishing. The weather was mild (12 degrees!) and the river, unusually for this time of year, was at a perfect height. All the fish fell to very small nymphs fished low in the water. No sign of shoaling grayling; each fish was from a different swim, but my day was limited to 3 hours so I did not get time to explore all of the beat.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

Nice mild day after the cold snap. River clear and at a nice level - 1'2" at Byton. No fly life about and, it would appear, few fish showing; perhaps they needed a day to adapt to the change of weather. Only had the two small grayling between us, one each plus a fingerling trout, all on weighted nymphs. DB's first visit to this very pretty valley.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

1 x grayling 15 inches on Pink Shrimp. This didn't go so well. A very cold morning with the Arrow running quite high, but very clear. I struggled for a result but was pleased with one nice fish.

1 Grayling

Fished French leader till 11 oclock with only one missed take on the top end pools then picked up two grayling in Ashtree pool in the deeper gutter in the tail of the fast run moved downstream to Abercymrin pool found the fish also in the deeper tail changed set up to conventional fly line to fish the slower deeper runs using a three team cast 4mm Hare's Ear, Holy Grail and Pink Shrimp on top dropper with a cast up stream to get flies hard on the bottom the majority of the fish came to the shrimp picked nothing up then till Penalo pool 1.30 small dark olives were coming off my usual go to olive cdc only rose one fish, changed to grey klinkhammer bingo had one trout 4 grayling in the next half hour then that was that ,high light of the day stood up on the high bank looking down onn the river just above harries pocket watching 2 salmon chase each other arroud in 1.5 feet of water magic

2 Trout, 14 Grayling

2 Trout, 9 Grayling