Hi Folks, any thoughs on fishing on the Irfon/Cammarch with fly for grayling this week would be appreciated. Three of us are out Friday and Saturday this week. Cheers, Mark

Yep... go lower down. Cefnllysgwynne or Gofynne. What do you want to know.

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You can't argue with that. I would however add Llanfechan to the list of beats.

Until we get some rain the river is pretty low and the water temp is quite high for the time of year.
On the last few trips I have made to the Upper Wye/Irfon the fish have not been holding where you would expect them.

Try the gravel glides before you try the tails/necks of pools, as all the best fish we a have had in the last two weeks have come from these areas.

Hope this helps.

Frank

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Many thanks Tigermoth and Frank for the help. I'll post how the trip went. Cheers, Mark

I would be interested to hear how you get on as im fishing the Cefnllysgwynne
beat next Fri on a weekend social.

Gromain and Ty-Newedd(Spelling?) on the Sat and Sun.

I can't wait.

Mark

Sharpen your studs, clean the felt soles and take a wading stick, life jacket, and several changes of clothes if you get Gromain.

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Cranefly,

I take it you are saying the wading can be difficult then.

Hopefully i won't be taking to many dips.

I have a brand new pair of Hardy wading boots with studded felt soles to use on the weekend so hopefully they might help me limit the number of times i take a unexpected swim.



Mark

Update as promised..... We fished the Cammarch hotel top and bottom beats 9th and 10th Nov. Friday was a cracking day with lovely autumn sunshine most of the day. Friday, the river was low as reported but just a faint touch of colour in is from the previous days showers. Gravel runs proved the best places to fish. Those with good riffles proving better than smooth glides.
Red was the key to success, fish taken on GH hears ear with red tag, red tag, variant of the red tag with a bibio type hot spot in the middle of the hear body rather than a tag, hot spot shrimps, double bead pearl back HE, an egg fly made of red glister dubbing!! Peeping caddis was the exception. Saturday we got to the river to find it full of leaves and up several inches. Weather not so nice, cloudy with showers. Had been advised to look for the trains of leaves as these are food lanes. Well these trains of leaved were not like the Ivor the engine trains from Friday, they were like the big freight trains in the US that take 40 mins to roll through Fort Collins. Our flies were hanging up on them and racing through the pools, snagging on them etc., a real pain. After a couple of hours though they did appear to flush through and that made life easier. We caught less fish and could not find them in the places we profited from the day before. All in all a great couple of days. What did I learn, loads, felt boots with studs are a must on the Irfon. I will take a wading stick next time gravel bottoms ok but the stone bottom pools difficult to navigate. The need to change weight on the cast constantly to get the flies tracking along the bottom. For me the quickest way was to add/remove one or two split shot to a small dropper. Quicker and easier than changing flies for different weight. Must do more grayling fishing....Many thanks to those folks who offered advice, tips, it helped a lot. Cheers, Mark
Typical fish we saw...

Mark,

Nice fish there mate.

Thanks for the report much appreciated.

I have just purchased a wading staff as last time on the Irvon i nearly went in a few times.

What size flies were you catching on?

Cheers,

Mark

12, 14 and 16's