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Pleasant day with river falling a little to about +14". Conditions seemed perfect and Don did his best to put us on the fish but the cooling water seemed to conspire against us and despite deliberate tactics of baiting and not baiting spots whilst trying a range of bait options in deep and shallow water, we struggled to find the fish during daylight. Nevertheless, sticking it out towards dark did result in one chubby barbel of about 7lbs and a pretty chub going about 4lbs.

Frankly, the fish did not play their part, took no account of all our planning and preparation and ignored the best meats and pellets money can buy. Someone should speak to them about their attitude! Who's in charge?

Thanks WUF - another better option than working.

Once again conditions looked great but fishing was tough - nevertheless 2 very good pike both over 20lbs taken - a barbel of 9lbs and 4 chub in the 1-2 lbs range.

Another blank day. Will now give grayling a miss this season.

A difficult day. We tried various parts of the beat from the bottom to the far end with no success until the afternoon when we managed three barbel to about 8lb from around the middle part of the beat, and 3 chub.

Despite bad weather we caught around 50 fish for 3 rods! Most grayling between 25cm and 35cm, biggest around 40cm. Majority caught with French nymph and CDC dry flies. Thanks WUF!

River looked perfect. We tried just about every bait in our bags and only managed to catch 1 barbel of about 7lb. Very disappointing that the chub did not want to feed either.

Nil caught....

River conditions looked great but only 2 decent chub taken 1 to 3 1/2 lbs.

River a little too high but we managed 7 grayling to 16", and one out of season brown. Some on a pink bug but most on dry grayling steel blue. All fish returned.

Apart from parr and small out of season trout, 23 x grayling 10-17 inches and 1 x large chub around 4 pounds, long trotting with double and single maggot. Rather a gloomy, grey day and this beat was worked hard the day before, but grayling were still quite keen. The Irfon had settled down to a really nice fishing height, even a bit low and clear for trotting, and a few fish showing at the surface after lunch made me think of the fly rod. There are some truly lovely grayling in the Irfon this year with a high average size, four or five from this bag made 17 inches and the majority were over 15 inches. Super day.