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My first time on the beat no takes only used the fly rod only fished the middle of the beat

The mild weather gave us high hopes but the fish were somewhat finnicky. The grayling didn't seem to be shoaled up and the trout didn't recognise that their season had finished. Sporadic rises didn't give much confidence to dry fly tactics and we mainly stuck to the duo. That said the klink did get the odd inspection and accounted for a fish. All the fish were taken from typical grayling water but we never felt we were going to connect with any reasonable sized specimens. The best grayling was probably just over the pound and the trout were mainly about 3/4lb with the odd smaller fish thrown in.

11 Trout, 6 Grayling

Difficult the water level had risen after the rain has fallen in the night
We saw a sick truite (40cm) with white plaques (left bank near leaning willow)

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

I haven't been to Gromain for years. A bit of an impulse decision to go there and try trotting maggot. Grayling ranged from 10" to 14".

12 Trout, 5 Grayling

Spent my 40th birthday fishing the beat with a friend, a great place to be. Fish started to show in the afternoon and after lots of misses managed to connect to two grayling and a small trout on a dry.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

Saw a few salmon, but didn't make contact. A very enjoyable day.

2 Grayling

An enjoyable day with three of us sharing what appeared to be excellent conditions for salmon at Gromain. Unfortunately no salmon, although Roger did manage a surprise small grayling on a shrimp fly.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Not easy fishing, trotting maggots. Fish located at 1 spot. Wading difficult with 1 swimming session

1 Trout, 4 Grayling, 1 Chub

A beautiful day for my annual pilgrimage to Gromain. Very few rises and only a brief flurry of Pale waterys around noon when the sun came through. The day was spent with the long rod and nymphs, Czech nymphing in the deeper runs just before the tail and at the head of the pools and French nymphing in the faster shallower water. Peeping Caddis and copper tung bead GRHE with a pink thorax worked well, the average size of the Grayling was better than last year with the largest at 15", the best OOS Trout was a stunning fish at 18", four Parr were also caught. A word of warning to folk with larger vehicles ( I drive a VW T5), the parking marked on the map does not have enough room to turn around which means a tricky reverse up a rough track onto a busy road. I park on the road verge by the bottom field gate by LLanstephan bridge.

10 Trout, 18 Grayling, 4 Other

Dry and bright day with occasional hatches of blue winged olives. Fish caught on nymph and dry patterns and all released safely.

6 Trout, 4 Grayling