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Great day weather was warm and sunny. Big hatch off brown caddis all up the river, made fish feed off the surface in only the deep water. Grayling were the only fish of the day, from 8 inches to 14 inches, no trout to be seen.

3 Grayling

This beat was fished by three members of the Grayling Society on this occasion, all rods were trotting maggots. Weather and river conditions were perfect but the fish had other ideas!

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

Lovely beat, and I always expect to have a good catch, but failed to raise any interest. Mind you, it was bloody cold. Drove home through a blizzard.

From a consistent low level recently the river was rising from overnight rain on arrival and soon was up about a foot and carrying a heavy colour. The fly rod was swiftly put back in the car! As an alternative to the long drive home I persevered with trotting but with little confidence. Gauge only went up to about 0.7m, still in theory ok for trotting but I would say on a settled river, less so on the angry boiling broth witnessed today!

Weather and water conditions were perfect, but it lacked the fish activities. Hard to find the fish and we're surprised with the browns we caught. Not that we were catching them, but the condition they were in. It was as if it was spring time, perfect condition. Mild winter strikes again!!! Even with the lack of fish numbers it was still a pleasure to be back out on the river.

4 Trout, 3 Grayling

6 Grayling

River low and clear, air temperature -3 fishing was very slow but we expected this with 2 sharp frost.

3 Trout, 6 Grayling

9 x grayling 13-17 inches, 3 x out of season trout 6-14 inches. Rather colder today, although we did see the sun for a while which was cheering. I started off trotting as planned. However, whether it was due to very clear water or low level (0.458 on Cilmery gauge) or possibly amount of recent fishing, the grayling were shy of trotting gear so I changed to a more delicate Tenkara rod for the rest of the day. Nice average size of fish as we have grown to expect from the Irfon and no shotts at all today.

9 Grayling

Trotting maggot. Grayling to two pounds, plus a decent chub.

12 Grayling, 2 Chub

River very low and clear. Still managed to catch 8 graying with 6 decent ones. Packed in at 3ish, leak in the waders made up my mind to finish early.

8 Grayling