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No fish caught. Very bright day. Only fished from 12 noon-3pm

12 x grayling 11-16 inches, Red Tag, Grayling Steel Blue and Orange Otter. A delightful morning messing around with a dry fly rod and a box of old-fashioned flies on a couple of Irfon pools.

12 Grayling

River really low and initially chilly but lovely sunny day. Fished late morning and through afternoon. Mostly fished a leggy soft hackle upwing dry size 14 and a smaller light olive bodied bushy f-fly type thing on a 3 weight and skinny tippet. Copper head nymph at close range sorted out couple of 14" fish. Only fished bottom of beat in unhurried fashion. No pools to speak of with the water so low, so stealth needed, was bit like chalk stream fishing today. Fish switched off a bit as day progressed to be replaced by tiny salmon par that attacked anything. You don't want more than 7' rod here really. Picnic tables abound, take the hamper.....

20 Trout

1 Trout

Nice place never saw any one all day the fishing was slow fished feeder with pellet for two barbel best 7-13 and a chub

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

10 lb colouring cock fish. Size 12 non descript double. Floater and tip.

1 Salmon

2 grayling, 6 brownies. mix of dry and wet flies. no fish taken.

6 Trout, 2 Grayling

This was my first visit to Gromain and Upper Llanstephan. What a beat! If you designed a beat to look "fishy" it would look like this. Beautiful surroundings, pocket water, classic salmon pools, flats, falls and gutters. Such variety. I was also delighted with the effort that has clearly been put into giving visiting anglers the best chance of success. The beat was well tended, not massively overgrown which some WUF beats are and the notes for the beat were detailed and helpful - giving some guidance for all the pools. Its a credit to WUF! A small suggestion would be a few more notes for those targeting trout. The beat can be a little intimidating in its size and its a little difficult to know where to start. There were some small mentions in the notes but a little more would be appreciated. Much is made is previous reports about the difficulty of wading on this beat - and to be sure there are parts that are definitely not easy. But if you have a wading staff and studded felt soles and the flow is not too high (gauge was 1 ft for me) then you should not be put off the beat. Sadly, not only didn't I catch anything but I didn't see (or touch) any salmon and didn't really see any trout either. Curious. I fished from 12pm til sunset. A great day though.

All fairly small fish, but a barbel bite is a barbel bite. A pleasant day out.

8 Barbel

Another 12lb cock salmon for Matt Cooper on a Tyne Toucan. The fish came again from Hom Stream on Weirend beat. Four fish in one week for Matt. 1 from Goodrich 3 from Ross AC waters.

1 Salmon