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Decided to give the Llynfi a bash from my regular Arrow and Lugg beats . . . . Was ten when I bowled up , a little overcast , 18 degrees and a nice breeze , things looked good .
Tackled up with my usual six foot two weight outfit , and a tiny parachute black gnat , almost immediately having several hits by small but very pretty trout parr , which is promising for this river , as two years ago was the pollution incident so happy days , and plenty of small fry and bullheads under stones . . . . .
Had my first "decent "trout , possible ten inches in the head of a deep pool , great spirited fight and quickly returned . This happened several times , with good rises , prospecting areas working my way up the river . Was a nice change from the confines of the Arrow beats , easy peasy , and wide and able to get a proper cast under the over hanging alders , great fun . Four of the brownies came to the dry , and two on a single small gold head PTN .
The deep pool half way up the beat , had a nice surprise , a lunker of a grayling took my nymph , steady bend in the six foot rod , beautiful specimen , possibly fifteen inches , and strong as an ox , quickly admired , then released , spot on !!!!!!
Had one more grayling again in the nymph nearly at the top of the beat , again in a deep pool , hit the nymph hard , about ten inches , and super condition . . . .
A really fun four hours , six brownies and two grayling , from this recovering cracking river , shall head back again very soon , oh and it would have been rude not to call in to the Honey Cafe and sample one of the delicious cakes and a cuppa, so obviously I did the decent thing and gave it a go . . . . . Again !!!!!! Great morning , and a nice chill out at the cafe . . Happy days !!!!!!!!

6 Trout, 2 Grayling, 1 Other

Only a quick visit 2 hours and 1 caught, 8" on dry olive fly

1 Trout

Early morning trip but not early enough I don't think - a few rises in first half an hour or so, after that all quiet. Other were salmon parr; water obviously very low but there were fish in faster water. All on dries, para Adams and larger brown klink. Missed a few, including takes from a couple of reasonable fish that I did see rising in still water (not counting the many splashes at the fly from ambitious parr); worth going at first light if possible at the moment. Enjoyed trying somewhere new as always, thanks to WUF.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling, 4 Other

7 x trout 6-9 inches, 2 x grayling 6-10 inches, Parachute Adams and Parachute Greenwells. Plus countless numbers of smaller parr, trout, salmon and grayling, pecking away at the fly. A heron and a large family of goosanders seemed to be helping themselves. No larger fish seen today.

7 Trout, 2 Grayling

fish taken mid morning from small deep pools on size 16 GRHE, including an impressive grayling of about 1lb. Trout of about 8 inches and ten inches. Upper reaches very pretty but only yielding salmon par.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

good afternoon fishing. Had many more rises than I hooked up with.

3 Trout

Fished from 0900—1200. Dry at first then rain set in. Not much fly life given the changeable weather recently and it was a few degrees cooler than the day before. The odd trout was rising, but I couldn't work out what they were taking. A couple of trout up to 8" came to a ptn, both released.

2 Trout

Fished 2pm-5
A beautiful warm slightly overcast day. Fished duo, dry and nymph on long leader.
Loads of fly life and a steady hatch of Mayfly throughout. Interestingly I didn’t see any Mayfly taken of the surface with other upswings selected instead.
All fish taken in the first 200m of stream after that only a couple of rising fish seen and nothing on the nymph.
The blurb was right with the average size of fish being bigger than the norm for a small stream.
The nice 14 inch Grayling was sight-fished from a deep slow pool the trout from the heads of pools. One trout to a dry the others and the Grayling to a Maynymph.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling

plenty pf fly on water but mainly grayling rising to it, most trout to beadheads a couple to mayfly dry.

10 Trout, 4 Grayling

River in good shape with plenty of insect activity including a few may flies. There were very few rises and there did not seem to be much fish activity.

2 Trout