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no activity at all, try dry flies and nymphs but no way to find a fish

Four trout caught on dry fly during a hatch around midday, with sun out on early spring day. One trout and one grayling caught on spiders, and one escaped just on the point of being netted.

5 Trout, 1 Grayling

All fishes caught with dry fly, large March Brown, including 2 large chubs of 4 pound each. The biggest BT has taken a pretty early Mayfly... Started the day with French nymphing, but didn't take a bite. Another pleasant day, sharing the beat with the owner, who was after salmons.

8 Trout, 2 Grayling, 2 Chub

Conditions looked lovely, ten hours of trotting ensued = 3 bites, 2 nibbled maggies - DOH! Any one got a bag of golf bats for sell?

Like our previous sessions on other waters the river was high and pushing through but we managed to pick out a few trout, grayling and salmon parr off the main flow in the calmer water.

4 Trout, 4 Grayling, 2 Other

First time fishing this stretch and tried trotting for Grayling with no success. Weather about 7 degrees and heavy rain and times. Wading in fast conditions was tough in places. Will be back in more clement conditions.

First time on Abernant and fish came from the whole length of the stretch. Largest fish was a lovely grayling of 16 or so inches and 1lb 13oz. All fish caught trotting maggots.

6 Trout, 7 Grayling

Trotting maggot. Grayling generally 10-12”; best 15”

2 Trout, 8 Grayling

Having had three very productive outings trotting for grayling of 8 - 15 " on various parts of the GPAIAC Builth waters this month (one reported last week) I fished Abernant yesterday on a beat that I have become very familiar with over the years. I often fish it from the bottom to the Edw from July until the end of October, when this beautiful beat can be so prolific and rewarding, but where I had never trotted before until yesterday, and was ticking off a "to do" on the bucket list! I was full of optimism for a day with a warm 10 degrees and the water a clear 1' at Llanstephan and 1.08m at Builth. A bit low but still affording plenty of water which should have been productive, and just a bit of a breeze but nothing detrimental. So where were the ladies? I had a 12" fish on the third trot and thought "here we go" but, unfortunately, from there on it wasn't a case of "here we go" but the beginning of a session which covered all of the bottom half of the beat that was accessible, but with the scant reward of only three more 8-12" fish and a couple of OOS 10-12" trout. So even they weren't having my red and white maggots either! I didn't try the upper half of the beat as, by then, I had decided that it was a day that had firmly put me in my place and so "retired hurt" at 3.30. Also rather wet too since, as I left the water, I slipped and, well, you know what happened next - a very wet ride home! Saw no LDOs today but the dippers were in fine voice. All good fun though, and many thanks to WUF for the bank-side work which was ongoing during the day on the top half of the beat. Undeterred, I'll be back again later in the year, chucking the fluff and hopefully staying much drier. Happy days!

2 Trout, 4 Grayling