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A really successful day, first for a while, with 3 nice wild brownies with the biggest at over 2lbs. An early start, heavy cloud and cooler weather all conspired to help.

3 Trout

A lovely scenic stretch though rather short and suiting the shorter session. A nice colour to the river with some extra water giving good conditions. No one told the fish though and struggled for 3 small brownies ( 2 on nymphs, 1 on spider) before the clouds began to look menacing and I called it a day.

3 Trout

Fished for about an hour over lunchtime. The river was a little high, making most of the beat inaccessible.
Caught one rising trout, on a grey duster klinkhammer, in the top pool.

1 Trout

I needed to visit Fishtec in person, then went to this beat for the first time. The river was very fast flowing and slightly coloured, but not as high as it obviously had been. I had a couple of hours fishing weighted shrimp flies in the calmer parts, but not with much confidence. I hope to visit later in the year.

Nothing caught, but a lovely day on the river nonetheless.

A bit of a struggle but nice to catch something on the first day of the year. The predicted breeze was more like a gale at times which made fishing difficult. One small grayling and two of 10 inches, taken on PTN and Czech nymphs. Also lost a small trout.

3 Grayling

River up a few inches and pushing through a bit but otherwise looked good. Still, struggled to locate many fish and finished the day with three 4 inch grayling, a ten and eleven incher and an OOS brownie of eleven inches. All taken on a various heavy czech/tungsten beaded nymphs fished on point and single dropper.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

In common with everywhere else, the Irfon needs rain to give it a flush through. Some spots that were fishable a few weeks ago are now just inches deep. Still, managed to contact some grayling which made for a really satisfying day. The first four were taken using a two nymph rig on a French leader, the size 18 pink beaded PTN dropper being the fly they liked. A few fish began rising so switched to the dry fly and took fish on green sedge and tan klinkhammer patterns. Couldn’t see anything hatching so not sure what they were actually taking! Finally changed back to nymphing and caught on a waterhen bloa and baetis nymph. Several fish were 12 to 15 inches, a couple were 7 inches and the fish of the day a fat 16 inches. All returned.

10 Grayling

Came to Wales to avoid the referendum. River very low so didn't bother to fish and enjoyed a bank walk. Saw a bloated heron.
N.B N.B one patch of Himalayan Balsam and .... Japanese knotweed on second field down!!!!!!
Great little spot.

2 Grayling within 10 minutes of arriving although didn't arrive until after 4.30pm both fish on nymphs fish rising but very sporadically. Weather warm and sunny, stayed in the Lake and Country House Spa Hotel which was very nice. I will return, this is one of my favourite beats to fish in Wales albeit its a bit of a trek on a warm sunny day if you have bad knees!!
I have never seen the water so low while I've been coming to Wales for the last four years.

2 Grayling