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2 Brown Trout, both less than 1lb. Both returned.

This is what you call a red letter day!!! To be honest we could do no wrong all day. No word of a lie between two rods we must of caught and released over 40 grayling, biggest being about 18in, average size between 12 and 15in. About 15 or so brown trout to 12in. Fish were taken all over the beat using weighted bugs and then the dry fly, tan Klink doing most of the damage. Fanastic hatch of Blue Winged Olives later in the day had a stretch of the beat buzzing with fish activity. Absoulutely fanatastic day on a great well kept beat. Big thank you to WUF and to the land owner for the hard work to produce beats like this. We will return for definate.

A beautiful day with the river in fine order. Caught 5 grayling and 3 trout all on the small side. There was a good hatch about 2.30pm of Sedges and slowly the fish began to rise and I caught my few. Half an hour later a big hatch of needle flies occupied the fish entirely and could not get contact. Tried size 18 black thing and as I raised my rod a heavy take broke the fly off. Lesson: small flies fished just below surface might get better results. This is a lovely stretch of the Wye and on this my second visit I began to appreciate just how well keepered it is. Look forward to getting some of those big grayling next time.

Caught 3 brown trout up to 11 inches. 20 grayling including x2 16 inches and x1 17 inches. Caught mainly on dries, CDC Quill and PTN. A group of canoeists passed through who, although polite, seemed unaware of the water height restrictions in place.

What a day! Got off to a bad start by parking in the wrong place (obviously brain-dead since the parking instructions are quite clear!) and confirming that the gale that was forecast was in fact going to be blowing downstream, which it duly did all day. However, once warmly welcomed to the beat by the owner and given a few steers on the lie of the land, it was off to pastures new. I do love exploring new beats and this one appears to be a gem. Access is very well maintained and it offers a great variety of water, only a little of which there was time to sample. On a day which was so incredibly windy, and certainly not one on which one would choose, of all things, to go fly-fishing, it was amazing that there were so many clearly suicidal olives hatching for so long! However, they didn't elicit much response from the fish until mid-afternoon when a few grayling decided to head for the surface for a while. Prior to this, having found some gravels with a bit of depth and pace to the water, I caught four grayling and two trout (fishing duo), three to the dropper (E H Caddis) and three to nymphs. Once the fish took to the surface, I had a further five grayling, four coming to a Mmall Dark Olive Duck's Dun pattern and the other to a Grayling Steel Blue. Most of the grayling were 12-13" fish and one a 14" 1.25 pounder. Given the conditions, for me, all of this was "a result", and I look forward to returning, and hoping to sample the bigger fish that are reputed to live here - I hope, under kinder conditions than 12-13 degrees plus some serious wind chill - at least it didn't rain (much!).

Marvellous stretch, very accessible. Some cracking pools very grayling looking water. Not much fly life very few rises. 2 small grayling. Lost fly in a heavy fish in 1 of the Craig Llyn pools, a Hairy Red Tag if anyone catches it!

One Cock Salmon (Coloured) 33" inches in length approx. 12-13lb, caught with an Ally Shrimp. The fish was returned.

Caught a 10lb coloured hen fish on a deeply fished fly fishing the far bank of the Abercymryn Pool in the evening.

First time to this beat, easy to find and good parking close to river. Warm and sunny with low water so no salmon however 1 large brown trout around the 3lb mark and several smaller before lunch and then a salmon sized (well almost) grayling around 3pm. Again around the 3lb mark maybe larger. Smaller trout and grayling came to drys all afternoon. All released in good condition.
Lovely well looked after beat will be back for trout, salmon and monster grayling. Many thanks to beat owner and WUF.

My first trip to Craig Llyn was aimed at trout and grayling. On arrival the generous owner suggested, even challenged me to catch a salmon instead. Well always up for an angling challenge, my willing change of tactics to a heavy unnamed copper wire fly eventually landed a cracking 16 pounder from the fast but deep Abercymryn pool. I found this naturally rocky and multi pooled beat well maintained and benefitting from some really exciting opposite bank fishing. The three parking areas are fairly close to the river. With the Elan dams now overflowing and upland bogs fully saturated, given a little more rain the autumn prospects for this way up river beat look very good indeed.
The beat looks ideal for all types of fly fishing. But be prepared as the season fades for the unexpected. Big trout on salmon flies as well as the contrary. Low water salmon on tiny trout flies. All in all a very exciting up river beat that kept me occupied all day long. I intend several more visits. Thank you.