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Water level was a lot lower (0.25 at Byton) than the last time I was here when it was really pushing through. This time the pools and riffles were more clearly defined. Started at the bridge moving upstream and after a while came across a pool with some grayling feeding happily at the surface. Managed to catch one of them on a Griffiths gnat and spent another hour or so being given the run around by the others. Tried some other spots and had some interest shown in the fly but no takes. Enjoyable day.

1 Grayling

Quite a cool start with occasional breeze but soon calmed down and warmed up. Patchy rises all day so kept switching between nymph and dry fly. Two modest grayling to a size 18 Griffiths gnat, the rest on copper bead ptn run through the deeper pools. This beat continues to impress; great variety and always challenging.

2 Trout, 10 Grayling

Great days fishing. Loads of grayling about 7-8 inches with a couple of bigger ones. Saw dippers, kingfisher and yellow wagtails. Also signs of otters with crayfish claws etc in the field.
2 anglers fished

1 Trout, 20 Grayling

2 anglers caught and returned 40 odd grayling, 1 oos wbt and 1 salmon parr. Variety of nymphs and emergers used with fish taking freely on the surface even though little seemed to be hatching. Spotted 3 kingfishers but not before they spotted me and flew off down the river!

1 Trout, 40 Grayling, 1 Other

Phenomenal day, love this stretch of river last time I fished it, it was flooding hard. Completely different story today. Tea coloured water good visibility.

Every pool where is was slightly deeper with running water at the head of it was holding grayling mostly all shoaled up. Catching one meant there were another 5 at least m that I could get out of the same area.

I fished dries all day, it’s pretty close quarters so an 8ft 4wt to get in amongst the trees. Pretty much any fly would work as long as it was small. I know cause I was down to my last 18 and 20 by the end of the day, olives, duns, sedges.

Most productive was the pool mid bend, in the upper section, and the section below the cottage. Both of them netted over 10 in less than an hour.

37 Grayling

Low water.
Small black flies successful.
Hard going.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Great place for fly fishing

12 Grayling

Not very long but varied and in de wooded part quite mysterious sphere. Altough 2 realy good grayling pools in open field meanders. Extremely low water with a lot of threadforming green algue witch in my opnion as aquatoic ecologist is not a very good sign for the future. Is mostly a sign of nitrate and phosphate concentration becoming eutrophic. At normal levels you might not notice them and then the're probably still not alarming, but when climate changes and extreem low levels become common then Lugg, Ithon and Upper Wye might suffer from growing algue and eutrophication especially in summer in slow pools. We came to Wales because the French Jurrasic streams are eutrophicated to death for trout and grayling last decade. So be aware!

14 Grayling

Lovely day out.All the fish caught were between 8-10 inches. Plenty of signs of otters on this beat

1 Trout, 8 Grayling

Wonderful stretch. Clearly very low but still fished quite well. Fished upstream section on Klink and dink, with most fish falling to pink tag nymph, a couple taking the klinkhammer.

Tried the DS section, walking all the way back up and switched to the dry fly for afternoon session, harder going but managed 5 grayling all on the olive dun.

Fantastic day in the most beautiful setting. Will definitely be back.

1 Trout, 15 Grayling