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River Wye at Pwll y Faedda: 6 x grayling around 15" except for one at 12"; 1 x out of season trout 13". Another cold day, water very clear, generally hard fishing. The trotting rod not good so had to go on to traditional grayling wet flies to get some rather diffident takes from a single shoal. Either that, or it was because the sun came out after lunch and stirred them up.

9th February, Wye at Maesllwch: 5 x grayling 10-12 inches. Trotting - again unable to locate any but smaller grayling. Cold, but a great place for looking at wild-fowl at this time of the year, plus an otter was working the pool tail by the ford.

8th February, Wye at Abernant: 7 x grayling 10-13 inches, 2 x out of season trout 10 inches and 15 inches. Difficult and very cold day with the trotting rod and unable to locate any grayling of size - the small ones seemed to be scattered here and there.

Only 1 grayling caught, approx 8oz, weather was very cold, and river seemed to high, caught on weighted hare's ear nymph, very nice stretch of water and will definately return when water more suitable.

2 Pike of 5lb and 7lb and lost a 3rd bigger fish

Water levels too high and coloured for successfull fishing on 29th, wading impossible - none caught.

Water levels dropped by 30th enabling some wading in places, but water still coloured. 1 grayling to 1lb caught.

2 grayling rods, one trotting, one fly-fishing - 1 x 12" grayling. A hard day, with the river higher than I expected and slightly muddy during the morning, presumably due to showers somewhere upstream, although it cleared later. Finally a single modest grayling deigned to surrender to the trotting rod before dark. We welcomed it to the net like a long-lost friend.

7 x grayling, 1 x out of season trout. One grayling at 15", the rest in the 10-12 inch range. Traditional wets with sinking leader butt plus heavy nymphing under the rod top. Water levels still a little high for this beat.

1 x grayling 14", 2 x out of season trout 13" and 15". A very difficult day's trotting and I failed to locate any significant shoal of grayling. The larger post-spawning trout was as thin as an eel - all head and tail.

Abernant with trotting rod: Good to be back on the river after all these weeks. Water high but quite fishable, slight grey/green tinge which I guess must be due to Ithon run-off. Above freezing all day, so no rod icing. 11 grayling 12-16 inches, mostly quite nice ones around 15 inches, plus 3 out of season trout 11-14 inches. Post-spawning trout rather lean and pale and no doubt famished, barging in where the grayling should be and no doubt will continue to do so until March.

Salmon kelts also present on the beat.