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River high and only able to fish around the area of the stream mouth. One pike caught of approximately 10-11lbs. A nice day out regardless and good advice provided as always, catch return probably not surprising considering the conditions and the fact that the river continued rising steadily during the day.

1 Chub on cheese paste.

Unfortunately heavy overnight rain wrecked the day with water levels rising fast and more rain coming. Fished through the morning, caught nothing. Got a bit dangerous so packed up early but I will be back.

Conditions were borderline unfishable with high water level and ferocious push from the overnight rain but we managed one 11 lbs barbel on pellet. Otherwise nothing.

No fish caught, river in flood.

Full up river with lots of colour, access to wade very limited. It was out with the heavy nymphs, success, one small grayling after a couple of hours. A good day.

-4 when I arrived but still managed 1 small Pike to the lure. Always a pleasure to fish this beautiful river. Will be back again soon for the bigger ones hopefully.

12 x grayling 8-15 inches, 1 x out of season trout 11 inches, long trotting. The river was at 2 feet on the Llanstephan gauge, pretty high though running clear, but the air temperature was oh so cold. And cold air as such I can put up with, but rod ring icing on the retrieve after every trot down is incredibly frustrating. At the moment, with the river's water temperature relatively warm, it's possible to de-ice by submerging the rod for a few seconds, then, while the float goes on its way, giving the rod a sharp tap to knock off the water droplets before they freeze in the rings again. After Christmas, when the river temperature gets down to 4 degrees or even less, that won't be possible. Today the BBC forecaster promised us above zero temperatures around lunchtime, but they didn't materialise where I was fishing!

12 x grayling 12-16 inches on leaded grayling fancy flies - Grayling Steel Blue, Treacle Parkin and Red Tag on point. Very, very cold - minus 5 degrees struggled up to minus one. However, Irfon in fine condition.

4 Chub on maggot. Hard day again both rods roved around all day and found some fish at the end of beat 4.