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River dropping after heavy weekend rain. Still a bit higher than we would have liked, but fishable. Some really nice looking water oddly didn't produce, but myself and TH did manage to catch a good number of grayling on variety of nymphing methods, including czech, french leader and indicator. Good range of year class from small shots to nice 16 inch fish. Plenty of pound sized grayling about. Look out for a magazine feature in Total Fly Fisher in a few months time. Great beat!

23 Grayling

2 Grayling

River very high, lost a barbel at about 3.30. Then just as it was getting dark caught two. The first one about 5lb. The second was a pb of 7lb 15oz. Used feeder with halibut pellet. Most enjoyable day, even if the weather was cold and windy.

2 Barbel

Washed - off for a second time... are we destined never to fish this river!!??

2 Barbel

10 Barbel, 1 Chub

River up a little following overnight rain but still low. 5 grayling all about 8'' on F fly and 1 trout 12'' on black magic nymph. Dull and overcast.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

All fish caught using luncheon meat & feeder tactics. Lost one using boilies

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

12 x grayling 10-17 inches, 5 x out of season trout 6-15 inches, trotting. This was an odd one. The first hour went well enough with half a dozen nice grayling spread over the pool. Then I became aware that the river, already on the high side, was now rising. Plenty of clouds overhead, but no rain here, so I figured it must be raining further up in the hills. Grayling promptly switched off, as they usually do in these circumstances, and all bites ceased. Salmon, however, were showing regularly as they got more excited. I pushed a marker into the margin and watched the situation. After a rising a few inches, the level stabilised and then began to fall again (confirmed afterwards by a little hump in NRW gauge graph). The grayling began to take again and I caught a few more before leaving. Nice average size of fish, including several at 15 and 16 inches).

12 Grayling