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Unfortunately the conditions were so bad that I did not fish. Another time perhaps?

A pleasant afternoon spent trotting for Grayling on this lovely beat. Unfortunately drew a complete blank. The river level had dropped around a foot in the previous couple of days but is still high and coloured with a lot of debris - fallen trees are a problem in some parts of the beat. Spotted a heron down near the weir also a kingfisher and had a visit from a large dog fox at a range of about 10 yards as I was intent on unravelling a snag. A nice end to the year despite the lack of fish!

Returned for another try. River in better condition and fell considerably during day. Blanked again. Any chance of clearing a way across the double fence part way up the beat?!

It was going to be a bit of a gamble with such a wet December. Unfortunately it didn't pay of as the river was too high and unwadable. My son hooked one small grayling that got off before he landed it but nothing else all day. We met Charlie at the house who was very friendly indeed and we'll definitely be back when the water is lower.

River too high to wade - it was showing just over a metre at Climery. We couldn't see any features to cast to and the water pulled our nymphs along at a merry rate so no fish. My son got a new fly rod and reel for Christmas and he was desperate to try them out no matter what the conditions so we took a bit of a punt on the water levels. We met the very friendly Dai who kindly lent us a long-handled landing net as we had to fish from the banks. Unfortunately it stayed unused. The Irfon is a beatiful stretch of river and we'll definitely return when levels are a bit more sensible.

My first time on this beat and considering how bad the weather has been recently I was lucky to get a chance to fish. The river was at about 0.5m on the gauge and unfortunately the water was still coloured. For this reason I only fished a small portion of the upper part of the beat as I was reluctant to wade upstream in coloured water I wasn't familiar with, especially knowing there are deep holes dotted along the beat.
Despite this I managed to find two nice fish of 12-14 inches using a heavy green czech nymph on the point and a red tag nymph on the dropper and lost several more.
All in all a great afternoon on a new beat.

2 Grayling

River was falling but not clear enough, good to be out. Blank.

When I eventually found the fish it was a fish a chuck. What a river - jewel in the Crown in my opinion.

6 Trout, 20 Grayling, 3 Chub

High river levels and rising rapidly. Next time.

River very high and pushing through. Banks very slippery so not many swims available. Good day.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub