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Tough day on a low clear river all fish in the last hour of the day from swims already fished previously in the day for nothing. Still a great day though. Feeder fished pellet scoring

13 Barbel, 5 Chub

River very low most barbel small, best 7lb chub to 4 lbs

2 Trout, 17 Barbel, 10 Chub

Extremely quiet, with few rises. Expect the fish were deep and were certainly in no mood to come to the fly. Left early afternoon. Good to see though that the banks have been properly maintained - last time I was here in June they were strewn with rubbish!

1 Barbel of 8lb 12 Oz and 3 Chub to J, P recorded 2 Barbel and 2 Chub, one of double figures. Honours on the day went to S with 15 Barbel including a specimen of 11lb 6oz and 2 Chub. Most fish fell to fusion dumb bell boilies. Last of 4 excellent days on The Creel, many thanks to W.U.F.

18 Barbel, 7 Chub

River very low, far too bright. One take all day. 16 inch grayling gold head pheasant tail size 16. Fish returned no problem.

1 Grayling

Overnight rain but water fairly steady at 9" on Rhayader gauge. Both grayling and trout to 14". Little rising though pale wateries hatching and a few stone flies and sedge about. Few trout on dry Elk hair sedge fished blind. Grayling and other trout on nymph. Beautiful water, slippery bed rock.

9 Trout, 3 Grayling

Water low and clear, missed a few takes to a small grey fly.

Fish hard to come by. Water felt quite cold and peaty as it has been all summer. First time for a long time I have been cold fishing. Intermittent rises but nothing steady, few flies hatching throughout day. Managed 3 grayling and 1 trout at approx 10" - rest all small up to 6". Caught mainly on GSB, one was on a small unweighted ptn and one on a klink when fishing duo. Best fish came from Abernant Stream. Even waded out in Stone Catch but nothing.
Tried dry fly, duo and heavy bugs in head of the Catch.
Packed up when the British Army turned up en masse for a full battledress and equipment crossing of Lady Alexander's Catch. It also explained why field was trampled at 9am when I arrived and fishing has been so poor in the whole of the Catch - they had done one exercise there early morning already!

5 Trout, 6 Grayling

1 Trout

Fifteen trout caught on dry fly all caught after lunch when I had already been fishing for 2 or 3 hours. So, I was starting to get a bit twitchy, but thankfully had an action packed afternoon. Most successful fly was a rusty klinkhammer with bright green body and a CDC post. One notable fish at a fat 12" was probably the biggest fish I've had from Edw this year. New parking space put an extra 1/4 mile on the walk back to the car.

15 Trout