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Fished same stretch as Sunday on an evening ticket from 5 - 9.00pm
River clear, used same methods as Sunday and again every fly in the box. Scaled down to a weight 2 Cortland line, still no success. Also fished river at Rhayader same day with plenty of small trout but no fish from the Craig Llyn beat

Fished full day, rained all day. Fished floating line with nymphs, dries and wet flies, in fact almost used every fly in my box. Not a single take!!!
River was rising due to rain. Fished from Doldowlod caravan park for about a mile downstream

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Nil caught

Lost a decent grayling, caught 3 small and one medium sized brown trout. Missed about 4 big trout on different flies. Mostly dry flies. Big splashes, no takes. Better luck next time!

4 Trout

River temperature increased from a week ago by 3 degrees to 16 degrees c. Evening rise before on the Saturday night saw prolific sedge hatch with trout and grayling feeding heavily. Morning Fishing very slow possibly due to fish feeding heavily the night before and increase in water temperature. Fish caught were not in the fast glides but dropping back into the runs. Heavy bugs the order of the day on French leader and method. Dry fly switched on late afternoon as previous day with trout rising first followed by grayling an hour later. Dry fly was method required late afternoon - out fished French leader 2:1. Flies required for dry were large CDC olive patterns bigger the better seemed to work. Fish moving into the heads of the pools as the day progressed. Mixed bag of trout and grayling - 2 grayling over 18” with all trout in the half to three quarter pound range. No lumpers today.
Cheers Shaun for another fantastic day on Craig Lyn

16 Trout, 17 Grayling

This may be my favourite beat on the Wye so far. It’s just got such a diversity of water.
Unfortunately I fished like a complete muppet and didn’t do the water any justice. Maybe it was my reptile brain kicking in as wading was...challenging , there was enough colour after recent rains that once past my knees I couldn’t clearly see the bottom and spent most of my energy avoiding falling: I failed there too falling three times. I had one brief 30 min spell where I fished ok and most of the fish came in this small window including two nice trout measuring 14 and 15 inches. With water temps at 15.1 degrees they were in great shape.
With hindsight I’d have fished this beat in the afternoon as the river was fining down quickly. By early afternoon when I left wading was much easier.
The fishing gods did grace me with my best Grayling in 10 years. A fat 16 plus-a-tad incher that took as I was trying not to fall over,again, and not paying the slightest attention to my line.
I’ll definitely be back to this stunning beat.

8 Trout, 3 Grayling

Tough going today, although managed to find a few grayling lying in a deep run late in the afternoon.
4 trout circa 8 inches. 6 grayling two of which were around 18 inches.

4 Trout, 6 Grayling

River low and clear

6 Trout, 3 Grayling

I invariably come away from Craig Llyn thinking I should have caught more than I did. Today was no exception. An enigma, with pools and runs that scream "fish" at you failing to produce. I covered a lot of water today, and used 3 methods - nymph, duo and dry - but only caught spasmodically. Each method equally successful (or should that be unsuccessful?). Most of the fish came from faster, shallow (and, sometimes, very shallow) water. On the plus side, the Grayling were a good size. Conditions were not ideal - ie a low clear river on a bright day - but other Wye beats have produced for me under these conditions. However, other anglers do well here; so perhaps the problem lies with the thing at the thick end of the rod

1 Trout, 6 Grayling