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Slow in the morning, picked up midday, all grayling hard on the bottom, most pools and runs had grayling of about 10" to 15".

6 Grayling

A lovely day, fished from 9.30 a.m. until 3.30 p.m. Cloudy, warm and still. River gin clear at 0.42m on the Cilmery guage. So we started full of expectation! However, we only managed to catch one OS trout of about 1.25lb and a grayling of about 14" on bugs, and two grayling (14 and 17") on a small dark olive Ducks Dun while a few fish rose to a sprinkle of hatching olives between 1 and 2 p.m. Saw five salmon (8-10lb?) and one very healthy looking mink. A perplexing day - where were the ladies?

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

Seemed like a perfect day, overcast, not too cold, no rain or wind. Used a number of methods, NZ, single nymph, lots of different dressings and depths....did not catch a thing, neither did my mate.
However, saw 3 5-8lb salmon leaping about out of the water, not sure what they were going for, but maybe they had better luck than me.
This stretch of the Irfon is beautiful and full of potential but alas, not today.

6 x grayling 14-16 inches, 4 x out of season trout 10-16 inches, long trotting. Bright sunshine, but the air temperature was rather less than we had been promised; it was minus 4 when I arrived and rod ring icing continued to hamper fishing until midday. Finally struggled up to 2 degrees by late afternoon, with shaded areas still frozen. Grayling were spread out in individual lies rather than shoaled up.

6 Grayling

2 Trout, 5 Grayling

I booked this from the car in Builth, testament to the ease of the online booking system. Although booked on Abernant originally, the Wye was still a little bit high so made a snap decision to head to Cefnllysgwynne to try and get a bend on the rod. To be fair the Irfon was till a little bit high too - the high water pushes the grayling off their usual lies and unsettles them, especially with a constant stream of leafy debris trundling along the river bed. I gave it a few hours with maggots in the usual "bankers", but didn't get a touch. Always a pleasure to visit Cefnllysgwynne, so much water to go at.

17 x grayling 8-18 inches, 4 x out of season trout 6-11 inches, 1 x out of season salmon 5-6 pounds, long trotting. Almost perfect river conditions today, although I had to use lighter float gear than usual with shy grayling in clear water. A nice healthy range of grayling sizes, including one at 18 and several at 17 inches, but also a few smaller ones included in the catch and there were some little grayling parr under 6 inches as well. The accidental salmon was a rather docile coloured grilse, which I thought was a big grayling for a while as I worked it upstream. To my surprise, it lay quite quietly while I plucked the hook out. All in all, a most beautiful Irfon day (though cold at 1-2 degrees) with snow on the hills and flaming colour in the trees over the river. It won't last much longer; the leaves are falling fast.

17 Grayling

A bitterly cold day with a sprinkling of snow on the high hills in the distance. However, the sun came out and we fished the Church Pool upwards with weighted upstream nymphs. NB caught and returned a nice WBT around 1lb. We called it a day at lunchtime.

1 Trout

It was a promising start with a small grayling and brown trout in the first 10 minutes from the pool next to the stile into the churchyard. Worked my way up to the top fields of the beat during the day but nothing was showing. Returned to the church at approx 4pm and was surprised to see fish rising in the large pool below the church. Switched to the dry fly and missed a couple of good takes before taking another couple of out of season brown trout.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

Day trotting for Grayling. 10am to mid-day. Downstream of Church. 3 grayling, 12 to 15 inch and a very small oos brownn trout. Saw group of (migrating?) firecrests or goldcaps in trees next to church. Mid-day to dusk in field below 2 islands. No bites until 15.00 then found shoal immediately below islands caught 5 grayling, 10 to 15 inch. Moved 50yds downstream to top of long gravel run caught 1 large grayling of around 18 inch and at dusk 1 chub of around 2lb. Note: unusually all the Grayling were male fish and in excellent condition and colour. This is a beautiful peaceful place to spend an Autumn day and beat is an combination of excellent access and thoughtful bank maintenance. Thanks to WUF and owners.

9 Grayling, 1 Chub