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Great day on the Irfon. First but of dry weather we have had a for a few days, the afternoon say a hatch of olives and sedges and I took all the fish on Sedge patterns fished close to the bank and in the bubble line behind the branches hanging in the water a fantastic day

1 Trout, 8 Grayling

Irfon river levels where dropping so desired to spend the afternoon at the Cefnllysgwynne beat. River was still a little high and murky when I arrived so headed to the top of the beat. Nothing showing on the surface so nymphed my way through and no luck. Sat back and watched the water for a a bit a noted a fish rising on the far back under the trees. Tempted a 12 inch Grayling to a size 14 F Fly and was off the mark. Worked my way down towards the bottom of the beat and had a further Grayling and 2 OOS brownies. Lovely afternoon

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

A lovely day to be on the water, although bright sun and light wind might not have been the best fishing conditions.
Very few fish rising, despite willow flies and a few small Olives being on the wing.
As always a lovely place to fish, with plenty fo water to go at, It'll be interesting to see how the winter goes.

1 Trout, 4 Grayling

Very hard work finding the fish today, but a lovely day.

BTW the wading is quite deceptive: it suddenly and often unexpectedly gets very slippy. We would both regard ourselves as good waders but both fell in, even with wading staffs. Although in retrospect this was probably quite feeble, would recommend staffs and probably also felt soles with studs (which we stupidly left at home !!).

5 Trout, 5 Grayling

This was the day of the sudden 10 degree temperature drop and a bit of a shock. The forecast mentioned sunshine and showers but in the Irfon valley this turned out to mean single figure air temperatures with a burst of heavy rain or even hail about every 15 minutes. The river crept up inch by inch. Not the best of days to choose to go dry fly fishing, but for some reason we did. It turned out to be very hard work. 5 grayling 8-14 inches and 2 trout 10-15 inches, F-Fly, Green Insect and Red Tag. Otherwise lots of grayling parr which seem to be in all our rivers at the moment. The better trout was a handsome fellow found just off the current dining on hatching willow flies.

2 Trout, 5 Grayling

Tough fishing but very enjoyable day. We stuck to dries and NZ method, suspect we would have had more if we'd gone deep.

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

A couple of hours' fishing during the middle part of the day under a cloudless sky was always going to be a challenge so I was happy with a nice 1lb trout and smaller grayling, both on dry.
Great to be out on this fantastic section of the Irfon.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

2 Grayling

Fished with JE from Kingston. Tricky day. Tried top of beat. Parking coordinates a bit off I think but lots of features up there. Can’t imagine access in higher water but fish moving (just uncooperative).

Fished 8 - 5 and headed to CLG hoping to minimise the easterly and to block out some of the forecast unabated sunshine. Not sure if it worked or not, compared with the wider and more open reaches of the Wye but at least I did catch some fish. Some pale wateries mid-morning but not many later, and virtually no other fly life. Some leaves now filing the creases, so a few fish sipping here and there and others looking up, if not rising. Very few rising fish but, those which did and didn't, took a small HE emerger. On the bugs, most fish were taken in the faster water and necks. Grayling half and half, from 9-11 and 13-17 inches, the latter a lovely two pounder. Trout 10 - 13 inches. CLG looking as lovely as ever.

4 Trout, 8 Grayling