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Dry flies and bugging

4 Trout, 7 Grayling

4 Trout

2 Trout

1 Trout

1 Trout

The river was still at a height that was a bit high making dry fly presentation challenging … and I could not wade the river to access the upper part of the beat.

There was a fairly constant hatch throughout the day with olives, olive uprights and yellow Sally stoneflies keeping the fish looking up. Fish came all through the day and James landed all of his on one single fly … a grey dun parachute. Best trout and grayling about 17”.

At close of play I waded up the beat… there was a fish rising under the trees on the near bank in about a foot of water. I dismissed it as a tiddler and moved on. James came up half an hour later and it was still rising but more enthusiastically … head and tailing taking hatching duns. He saw its back and dorsal fin … a huge grayling, at least 3lbs! He had the sense to change his 3lb tippet for the strongest he had … 3.5lbs! As soon as he got the fly somewhere near the fish it walloped it …. And charged out in to the gutter at the centre of the river. Despite having changed to uprated tippet once in the faster heavier water in the gutter the inevitable happened …. Ah well next time.

12 Trout, 3 Grayling

Do they stock it,rubbish up there

Fishing Passport Note : Llwyn On is stocked fortnightly.

River level good but rather worryingly brown and cloudy, rafts of foam in trees on opposite bank in places seemingly going nowhere.
Which given how little rainfall the region has had throughout the last 2 weeks is no doubt yet another consequence of something being seriously wrong!

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Only one place to fish. Very bad directions as to which side or left ir right u can fish as signs all say private.
Really think someone needs to visit and up date instructions as 8 years is a long time. The white gste is no longer white.

All fish on long trotted meat or bread, two Chub over 4lb another two over 3.A great day on a beautiful stretch of river. Other a Dace.

25 Chub, 1 Other