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Thought it might be tough going today, flat calm low and crystal clear. Walked down to the bottom of the beat and saw nothing on the way! Fished french leader style in the streamier water around the rocks and caught lots of tiny trout and only a few grayling 9 to 12" (lost one that felt big in one of the pools). Back again tomorrow,change of tactics needed I think!

15 Trout, 5 Grayling

Four good fish all on nymphs the largest was just over 2lb then 2 of around the 1lb mark and another just over half a pound! Really nice beat wading tricky in places.

4 Grayling

Hard going today with only 2 barbel caught.

2 Barbel

Again with the water low and clear we thought that catching fish might be a no go. We had 7 Barbel between us using spicy baits and ground baits. The weather was overcast so I believe this helped. Fished the upper section by the orchard finding the channel two thirds across. So nice to be out within great scenery watching the wildlife go by. Thanks to WUF for letting this happen.

7 Barbel

First of two day session. Only managed a couple of hours but caught a few nice fish. Barbel to about six pounds and chub to about four. All on pellets or homemade boilies.

4 Barbel, 3 Chub

Fished the river for the last time in the trout season yesterday. Started off on the lower river (Pontypridd) with very little success. Only managed 1 small trout and a couple of grayling. Moved up river to MTAA waters and managed over 2 dozen fish ranging between 1/2lb up to 2 1/2lb on dries and nymphs. Just love fishing the upper Taff at the back end of the season.

25 Trout, 2 Grayling

Grabbed 2 hours fishing this lunch time for WBT. River desperately low and in places there were more leaves than river! I did not manage to catch a fish but did have two fish splash at the fly.

Just a short afternoon on the river, broke new grounds with a small Dace on a salmon rod. Didn't give to much of a fight, rain tonight?

1 Other

Fished until about 4.30pm. Water the lowest ever experienced at CLG with only 0.23m on the Cilmery gauge. Pools pretty stagnant. A few olives around in the morning but little fly on the water all day, even with the considerable leaf fall that the wind brought down either side of midday. Quite a lot of sipping small fish but relatively few grayling tempted to the top. Had six trout the best of 12" and 14" and seven grayling, all but two of 8"-10", the others being 14" and a nice 16" one and half pounder. Fish taken on small hare's ear emergers, Grayling Steel Blue and a tiny greenfly pattern.
A word of warning to anyone wanting to park in the middle car park by the "Grandstand" part of the beat: there is an ongoing tree-felling operation with much work still to be done and the car park area is log-jammed, inaccessible and very muddy. Having driven down, it took some time to get out and park elsewhere! If you plan to fish the top half of the beat it will probably be wiser to park right at the top (ref the map) or by the house and then walk rather than drive down the track.

6 Trout, 7 Grayling

My first visit to this beat. Very low (Cilmery gauge 0.22) and fish understandably spooky. Quite windy for a change and a lot of leaves coming down. Grayling all 9"-11", 4 on dry and 6 on nymphs. Finished off with two trout, one respectable at 14" which gave me something to net. Look forward to fishing it again.

2 Trout, 10 Grayling