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Fished here Yesterday with Shaun, and as his guests. Shaun started early with the Salmon rod, no Salmon this time but he did get 4 trout.
T.B. fished the French leader, and took a good number of both trout and grayling. When fish started rising regularly, we all switched to dries, and from then until the end of the day we took a good mix of trout and grayling. This has to be my favourite beat on the upper river, and rarely disappoints.
Thanks Shaun for a great day. (Fish numbers stated are a conservative estimate).

20 Trout, 38 Grayling

No fish caught - 1 take

Fished most of the day for salmon but 7 trout caught on the Russian golden killer size 3. 1 trout and all grayling on dry flies, approx 2 hours spent on the dry fly.

8 Trout, 9 Grayling

Fished most of the day salmon fishing, 7 trout caught on the Russian golden killer size 3, 1 trout and all grayling on dry flys approx 2 hours spent on the dry flys

8 Trout, 9 Grayling

River running relatively high and a blustery wind made matters interesting. No sign of WBT. All Grayling in very good condition. One my PB of around 1.75 lb. All caught on gold hare nymph. No rises.

4 Grayling

Very hot and humid. No fly. No rises. Water up a little, 1ft 4ins on Rhayader gauge and peaty.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

Very hot and humid. Water peaty. 1ft 4ins on Rhayader gauge. No fly and no rising fish.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

Raining very heavy all day but warm. Grayling to 1lb 4oz, brown trout all very small and didn't see any signs of bigger fish. Second day river faster due to rain. Water temperature cooler so put fish off the feed. Only 2 small Browns. All caught on brown nymph stone fly imitations.

11 Trout, 3 Grayling

2 fish caught near Doldowlod caravan park. Water turning colour after a morning of heavy rain. By evening the river was un-fishable. I did (with W&UF authorisation) an invertebrate sample. The river is almost devoid of life, I found a few stoneflies, segmented worms, a few small cased caddis, no up-winged flies of any kind. A really poor sample.

2 Trout

A good day for big fighting grayling. Not that I'm complaining but where are all the small ones? Lots of small stone flies about, probably yellow sallys but my entomology is not great. A stonefly imitation dry is what they preferred today. Not a sniff of a trout strangely. A very civilized beat if I may use that word. With little benches, pools neatly named and signed and a clear path running the length of it. Luxury!

10 Grayling